Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 191. (Read 531298 times)

I just got a new s9 yesterday and it's the best one yet for me. 13.5th using autotune. Hopefully it keeps going strong like this for the next couple years.

Just got my new S9 in.
Hashing at around 13.7 pool side.
Autotune only.  Yet my fastest and cheapest S9.
So far had one board go out on an older S9, and then the rest do about 1TH under what is reported.

Been lurking for a while now... Good news! Is this what happened in the past prior to product becoming available?

I have been out of the mining game for a while now, but wanting to get my toes wet again. It seems Bitmain offers best bang for the buck for a while now? Though, it is arguable whether a ROI is possible or not evenb with an S9 at the moment. Are 5% reasonable assumed average difficulty jumps at the moment? What are the current thoughts on getting back in the game and a possible ROI? Start off with one or two S9s, due to possible hw problems? As far as I can tell, except for a PSU there are no accessories required. Power it up with an ethernet connection and good to go?

What are the experiences out there, about 24h data volumes mining with an S9? Is it feasible to mine via TOR?

What is the consensus out there about powering an S9 on an EVGA 1300 - should be a good fit?

What are the experiences with overseas shipping costs? What are the expected shipping costs to Europe, US, Australia, Africa anybody?

Sorry for these basic questions. I did browse through the thread, but really cant be reading the whole thing, even though it is a lot shorter then the old knc thread... I appreciate any thoughts an inputs (please don't shoot me down in flames

PS: There is also a new kid on the block with a slightly more expensive rig here. The website is very slow and often times out though:
http://miner.ebang.com.cn/en/product/product-10-670.html

or on bitcointalk:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1704717.20

S9 11th and R4 reappeared as sold out items on bitmain.
Next step, they will probably un-grey, prepare your coins...if you got 'em..
...or pay the draconian 4% coinbase CC fee
I pass.

Check your spam folder.  They are usually pretty good about being faster than that.

network hash increased sharply, maybe another S9/R4 batch is being baked-in.

105 is bad 95 should be good.

s9 gear breaks a lot  it is not very reliable.

at best  it has about a 10%  breakage rate. 

 I am at about 16%  3 bad boards of 21  and maybe  a fourth as I have a shaky board.

And 1 bad controller out of 7

Is it a problem to have it working on a temperature around 95 celsius?

tough luck dude.

all newer s9's are auto tune  :

no freq adjustments

hy

in the antminer s9 interface under Miner configuration i dont have the option to modify the frequency. Do i have to update some specific software to have that option. The reason why is that i want to lower the frequency because the temperature is to high. constantly working o0n 100 celsius

You need to poke them on your ticket.
Are they partying again? You know the week long kind of party?

How like shit is the s9?
I never sent an s9, just the hashboards.

speaking of Denver, they have had one of my boards for over a week now and still no diagnosis. Not very happy with them at the moment plus another s9 I own that they repaired runs like shit.

Bitmain products are like a box of chocolates, never know what you are going to get   

Will be interesting to see what date the firmware is.

No.

It is for buysolar.

Crap, 12.93th hashboard light just went out. Will be going to Denver for repair.

I've always used UPS and until the last 3 orders, for the past 3 years  all went from Shenzhen to Anchorage and then DTW. The last few s9's I've gotten, the first of them took the scenic route: went from Shenzhen > Soul Korea > Seattle > DTW, the last 2 orders were Shenzhen >Narita > Osaka (via truck I'd think?) > Anchorage > DTW.

Most odd.

not sure that i understand this comment.
UPS was flying directly from Shenzen. I rarely seen miner getting to Hong Kong before being shipped out beforehand.
Also, why would it go to Guangzhou from Shenzen when Guangzhou is further north?
In any case, they are late.

It does vary the speed but the fans run slower so it is more quiet. I have all mine at the datacenter down the street.
I bring them home to test or repair.
Last one I took over was doing very well in my garage.


I have "heater" s7's around the house running at 400mhz and 30% fans. Nice. Use client mode wireless access points. Stick them in a wire basket.
I can run them in the car all night and keep the ice away. Just need power and wireless router.
I use one corsair RM1000 to run each at 400mhz

Did it get rid of that up down howl the machine is known for?

rwilliam45 on ebay has good units, he is reliable. Does not have any up right now.
If there is no selling feedback for a year or six months and they start cranking out $2000 items it is suspicous.