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Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 222. (Read 531173 times)

full member
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i had the strangest reply from bitmain support today. one of my new s9's has been running 1.5th/s slower than it should be since the day i got it which is out of spec by more than double the numbers posted by bitmain. anyway i was talking to a very nice person names "barbara" which im sure is a fake name like when you call comcast support and get someone in india or south america....but anyway she was working with me then randomly this person with the username "overseas" takes over my ticket and asks me to do everything that i already did and when i replied back telling him no i already did all of this he came back and said basically my miners are cooled too well. he said i need to raise the temps in the rooms i run my miners in because my miners are running too cold. the funny thing is all of my s9's are in one room while my s7's and titans are in another room in the building next to it. each room has its own dedicated ac unit pumpin nice cool 65/70 degree air into the room. the room with all s9's runs perfectly (same with the other room of course but this is about the s9 miner not the other miners) except for that 1 s9 that runs out of spec.

i usually back bitmain to a certain point unless im wronged because i cant go by anyone elses experiences except my own but who would have thought i would get a reply back telling me to run all of my miner hotter and harder in order to fix this one miner running outta spec? all of the other s9's run perfectly at the temps selected in the room so what makes this particular miner less willing to run at spec? it doesnt get anymore extra cooling that the other s9's dont already get. its plugged up to the same 230v apc 5000w pdu as 2 other s9's are but somehow these speeds are my fault and not bitmains fault....lol not likely. just thought i would throw this info out there because i found it amusing.

if your miner using there new auto freq firmware
i lost 3 TH/s from mine and after a week with them on a ticket i told barbara to move my ticket to some one more experiences and he did
after that (Customer Service-Overseas) take my ticket and they asked my kernel log more than once, every time this issue happen
after all they told me that (There is a bug in our latest firmware. We have fixed it.)
my miner now working for 1d18h31m41s without losing hash rate but i will upgrade it now for there latest
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
Wow, my A/C is set at 78F. At 65 I would probably spend something crazy here in TX (we were still solidly above 90F a couple of days ago).

Apart from this, it is unlikely that bumping the temp a few degrees would make much of the difference considering that boards are typically run in 50ies and 60ies.
sr. member
Activity: 387
Merit: 254
i had the strangest reply from bitmain support today. one of my new s9's has been running 1.5th/s slower than it should be since the day i got it which is out of spec by more than double the numbers posted by bitmain. anyway i was talking to a very nice person names "barbara" which im sure is a fake name like when you call comcast support and get someone in india or south america....but anyway she was working with me then randomly this person with the username "overseas" takes over my ticket and asks me to do everything that i already did and when i replied back telling him no i already did all of this he came back and said basically my miners are cooled too well. he said i need to raise the temps in the rooms i run my miners in because my miners are running too cold. the funny thing is all of my s9's are in one room while my s7's and titans are in another room in the building next to it. each room has its own dedicated ac unit pumpin nice cool 65/70 degree air into the room. the room with all s9's runs perfectly (same with the other room of course but this is about the s9 miner not the other miners) except for that 1 s9 that runs out of spec.

i usually back bitmain to a certain point unless im wronged because i cant go by anyone elses experiences except my own but who would have thought i would get a reply back telling me to run all of my miner hotter and harder in order to fix this one miner running outta spec? all of the other s9's run perfectly at the temps selected in the room so what makes this particular miner less willing to run at spec? it doesnt get anymore extra cooling that the other s9's dont already get. its plugged up to the same 230v apc 5000w pdu as 2 other s9's are but somehow these speeds are my fault and not bitmains fault....lol not likely. just thought i would throw this info out there because i found it amusing.
hero member
Activity: 2534
Merit: 623
Looks like someone is trying to get his post count up  Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
I have no idea about that.

I have seen in your signature that you are running many miners in your farm and which is quit interesting for me. How much total mining speed you are running?
See the signature, ~35 Th/s.

Thats nice. Are you running your all miners at home or some data-centers?
Come on man, the signature says 35.1Th/s Home miner.
member
Activity: 67
Merit: 10
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
I have no idea about that.

I have seen in your signature that you are running many miners in your farm and which is quit interesting for me. How much total mining speed you are running?
See the signature, ~35 Th/s.

Thats nice. Are you running your all miners at home or some data-centers?
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
I have no idea about that.

I have seen in your signature that you are running many miners in your farm and which is quit interesting for me. How much total mining speed you are running?
See the signature, ~35 Th/s.
member
Activity: 67
Merit: 10
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
I have no idea about that.

I have seen in your signature that you are running many miners in your farm and which is quit interesting for me. How much total mining speed you are running?
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
I have no idea about that.
member
Activity: 67
Merit: 10
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.

Are they announcing next batch for S9 soon?
legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Bitmain has a new website design
Main page: http://bitmain.com/
Shop: https://shop.bitmain.com/main.htm

I almost thought that the S9 and R4 were in stock again but you can't add any into the shopping cart.
Add to cart -button is grey.
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
Even newer firmware came out:
  Antminer-S9-all-201610232359-autofreq-user.tar.gz
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
Seems Bitcoin Mining is really going downhill this year. If you compare this thread to the S7, its moving at half the speed. Seems everybody is GPU mining now.


true, but once leading altcoin difficulty increases 2-3 times more with the same price, it will be in the same bad situation as btc is.
all mining seems to eventually getting to a point where it is not worth it for most people (economically).
they ought to come out with a coin that does not have a progressive difficulty increase, if it is possible.
personally, i would welcome POS in bitcoin.
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 523
Looks like Mr scammer is on ebay again trying to sell an s9 with bitmain psu with free shipping AGAIN.
Same text, same pics.
ANOTHER dormant account for 6 months has been hacked AGAIN.


Seller information
suzysub (1043 )
100% Positive feedback
Text in auction is a picture.

Wants bitcoin for payment



Bye bye bitcoin

Be careful folks.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
Seems Bitcoin Mining is really going downhill this year. If you compare this thread to the S7, its moving at half the speed. Seems everybody is GPU mining now.
newbie
Activity: 3
Merit: 0
Can someone please download these and post them on an English free download site?  I have tried everything trying to get them to download, used google translate from polish to English, tried to figure it out but it wants some kind of code for it to work.

http://lunaticfiles.com/14yvhw5duhqo/Antminer-S9-201607131442-12.92T-600M-security.tar.gz.html
http://lunaticfiles.com/kkns5tug3n96/Antminer-S9-201607131440-14T-650M-security.tar.gz.html

It's really sad that Bitmain won't post the older firmware versions!
hero member
Activity: 770
Merit: 523
something like that should i worry about ?

I would say no.
You could downclock it but I would just leave it.
If the temps are not high and no x's and hashrate is good and it is not DEAD I would just roll with it.

I have found that the one two three order from top to bottom does not match the boards from left to right or right to left.
I just pull the 3 power cables from one board and the hash cable from that board to see which is the offending board.


Was thinking I could grab the high error rate boards from several miners and put them in one and downclock.

Not sure what the algorithm is to set the clock with the new software but that may help.
It sets the clock differently for each board.
You lose the fan speed control though.

full member
Activity: 197
Merit: 100
something like that should i worry about ?
newbie
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
Hi guys,

the new firmware is very bad. I'm really upset about it and I hope they will fix ASAP what they've broken.
My miner is overheating and I can't select the frequency anymore. It's unbelievable.
The worst thing is we can't download the older firmware in order to do a downgrade as well.

Really really upset.

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