did anyone notice that the chip temp "magically" becomes lower ?
it used to be & also a rule of thumb, PCB temp +/- 30 = CHIP temp ?
eg (post above on chain #6): PCB temp 81 + 30 = 111 (CHIP temp) but in this "new magical" FW version 81 PCB temp/ 98 CHIP temp
maybe those who owns the earlier versions before batch 16 & 17 can do a comparison ?
hmmm, IDEAL hashrate & Auto Tune, but why it takes 20 or 30 or even up to 40 mins to start to mine ? it "really" has to be doing something "magical" !
was expecting it to be more advanced instead of taking a or a few steps backwards.
now u see me now u don't but just pay me (BMT) ! LoL
sad, really sad, bring back the simple & super reliable S3's to S10/11/12/13/14/15 .... with OPEN SOURCE to the PUBLIC ! you can just chuck it at almost anywhere & run it be it high ambient temps, dust or no dust, not that SUPER LOUD jet engine.
really sad to see the newer it is the worse it becomes.
ah yeah the superb pricing too . . .
just my 2 cents, if the buying STOPS the KILLING STOPS too.
Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 226. (Read 531298 times)
October 17, 2016, 04:01:44 PM
October 17, 2016, 03:38:21 PM
now after 5 hours i lost all hash rate
October 17, 2016, 09:59:24 AM
i lost internet for 3 minutes and after return all miners return to hash with the same hash rate except B17 return to hash with 9.8TH/s
after restart it returned to hash with full hash rate
after restart it returned to hash with full hash rate
October 16, 2016, 10:01:46 PM
ok so some more info after i got a reply from bitmain...
1. these miners have an auto freq checker that checks every freq when the miner turns on to run the board at the highest posible freq which causes huge fluctuations in board temps.
2. bitmain confirmed when i said before....they say it can take up to 40 minutes before the miner starts hashing. this is because every time the miner reboots it has to run through the freq checker again! (i honestly think this is to use lesser quality boards with higher quality boards. one board like mine will run harder and much hotter which isnt good for that board)
3. no fan control. instead it uses an auto fan control feature that fluctuates the fan speed based on the temps of the boards. this sounds great but like i said one of my miners has a board that runs almost 100 degrees at the chip which none of my other miners come close to that so the flans constantly speed up to 5krpm when the temps hit 100 degrees then drop back down to 2400 rpm when the temps go below what looks like 95 degrees at the chip. this happens over and over with no end and sounds like a kid pullin up at the light next to u revin his mommy and daddys dodge charger just a little slower. i told them i want fan controls back in the firmware.
4. take screen shots after the miner shows 40+ minutes of runtime before sending them to bitmain. i had no idea i had the wait the better part of an hour for the miner to finally start so i emailed them after waiting and seeing socket connection errors which was a false error...it was just that the miner was testing the frequencies.
5. you can see if your miner is testing the frequencies by waiting for the miner to fully boot up and putting you hand in the air coming out. when testing frequencies the temps of the air will go warm then cold then warm then cold....it does this for like 40 minutes so if you notice the temp changes wait 40 minutes at least before assuming your miner is dead! orrrr sell you so called "dead" miner to me at a significant discount
. lol jk but this part is pretty important.
this new auto freq is dangerous. i run my s9's with 2 pcie cables per board. the cables are not warm to the touch at all when using 2 because they are 16awg wires and i dont overclock the miner at all. it is easy to figure out how many to use...you just take the wattage (i have a meter) and divide it by 3 ( yes the controllers power isnt separated from the wattage just in case) and each 16awg cable if well made can handle something like 300w each but i try not to push it past 200 and change so my wires dont run hot at all. esentially what this new firmware does is make the miner less efficient because some boards are being overclocked to higher freqs making the math above useless because each board wont use about the same amount of power....the usage will fluctuate alot between the 3 boards. this is retardedddddddd.
1. these miners have an auto freq checker that checks every freq when the miner turns on to run the board at the highest posible freq which causes huge fluctuations in board temps.
2. bitmain confirmed when i said before....they say it can take up to 40 minutes before the miner starts hashing. this is because every time the miner reboots it has to run through the freq checker again! (i honestly think this is to use lesser quality boards with higher quality boards. one board like mine will run harder and much hotter which isnt good for that board)
3. no fan control. instead it uses an auto fan control feature that fluctuates the fan speed based on the temps of the boards. this sounds great but like i said one of my miners has a board that runs almost 100 degrees at the chip which none of my other miners come close to that so the flans constantly speed up to 5krpm when the temps hit 100 degrees then drop back down to 2400 rpm when the temps go below what looks like 95 degrees at the chip. this happens over and over with no end and sounds like a kid pullin up at the light next to u revin his mommy and daddys dodge charger just a little slower. i told them i want fan controls back in the firmware.
4. take screen shots after the miner shows 40+ minutes of runtime before sending them to bitmain. i had no idea i had the wait the better part of an hour for the miner to finally start so i emailed them after waiting and seeing socket connection errors which was a false error...it was just that the miner was testing the frequencies.
5. you can see if your miner is testing the frequencies by waiting for the miner to fully boot up and putting you hand in the air coming out. when testing frequencies the temps of the air will go warm then cold then warm then cold....it does this for like 40 minutes so if you notice the temp changes wait 40 minutes at least before assuming your miner is dead! orrrr sell you so called "dead" miner to me at a significant discount
. lol jk but this part is pretty important.this new auto freq is dangerous. i run my s9's with 2 pcie cables per board. the cables are not warm to the touch at all when using 2 because they are 16awg wires and i dont overclock the miner at all. it is easy to figure out how many to use...you just take the wattage (i have a meter) and divide it by 3 ( yes the controllers power isnt separated from the wattage just in case) and each 16awg cable if well made can handle something like 300w each but i try not to push it past 200 and change so my wires dont run hot at all. esentially what this new firmware does is make the miner less efficient because some boards are being overclocked to higher freqs making the math above useless because each board wont use about the same amount of power....the usage will fluctuate alot between the 3 boards. this is retardedddddddd.
Thanks for sharing this great information. I learned some of it and it does echo with some of my observations with S9.
October 16, 2016, 08:37:33 PM
Are S9 i/o connectors the same as S7 (18pin?). I can't tell as my S9s are at the hosting site.
Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
Yeah connectors are the same.Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
See these pictures (copyright dogiecoin.com):
S7: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5711/21733063766_1932e7d84b_o.jpg
S9: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7350/27791304401_90b0eccce8_o.jpg
So are you talking about this 18-pin cable at Bitmaintech.com?
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020160105105043457FPP8X92I0616
yeah, those, thanks.
October 16, 2016, 05:59:38 PM
ok so some more info after i got a reply from bitmain...
1. these miners have an auto freq checker that checks every freq when the miner turns on to run the board at the highest posible freq which causes huge fluctuations in board temps.
2. bitmain confirmed when i said before....they say it can take up to 40 minutes before the miner starts hashing. this is because every time the miner reboots it has to run through the freq checker again! (i honestly think this is to use lesser quality boards with higher quality boards. one board like mine will run harder and much hotter which isnt good for that board)
3. no fan control. instead it uses an auto fan control feature that fluctuates the fan speed based on the temps of the boards. this sounds great but like i said one of my miners has a board that runs almost 100 degrees at the chip which none of my other miners come close to that so the flans constantly speed up to 5krpm when the temps hit 100 degrees then drop back down to 2400 rpm when the temps go below what looks like 95 degrees at the chip. this happens over and over with no end and sounds like a kid pullin up at the light next to u revin his mommy and daddys dodge charger just a little slower. i told them i want fan controls back in the firmware.
4. take screen shots after the miner shows 40+ minutes of runtime before sending them to bitmain. i had no idea i had the wait the better part of an hour for the miner to finally start so i emailed them after waiting and seeing socket connection errors which was a false error...it was just that the miner was testing the frequencies.
5. you can see if your miner is testing the frequencies by waiting for the miner to fully boot up and putting you hand in the air coming out. when testing frequencies the temps of the air will go warm then cold then warm then cold....it does this for like 40 minutes so if you notice the temp changes wait 40 minutes at least before assuming your miner is dead! orrrr sell you so called "dead" miner to me at a significant discount. lol jk but this part is pretty important.
this new auto freq is dangerous. i run my s9's with 2 pcie cables per board. the cables are not warm to the touch at all when using 2 because they are 16awg wires and i dont overclock the miner at all. it is easy to figure out how many to use...you just take the wattage (i have a meter) and divide it by 3 ( yes the controllers power isnt separated from the wattage just in case) and each 16awg cable if well made can handle something like 300w each but i try not to push it past 200 and change so my wires dont run hot at all. esentially what this new firmware does is make the miner less efficient because some boards are being overclocked to higher freqs making the math above useless because each board wont use about the same amount of power....the usage will fluctuate alot between the 3 boards. this is retardedddddddd.
1. these miners have an auto freq checker that checks every freq when the miner turns on to run the board at the highest posible freq which causes huge fluctuations in board temps.
2. bitmain confirmed when i said before....they say it can take up to 40 minutes before the miner starts hashing. this is because every time the miner reboots it has to run through the freq checker again! (i honestly think this is to use lesser quality boards with higher quality boards. one board like mine will run harder and much hotter which isnt good for that board)
3. no fan control. instead it uses an auto fan control feature that fluctuates the fan speed based on the temps of the boards. this sounds great but like i said one of my miners has a board that runs almost 100 degrees at the chip which none of my other miners come close to that so the flans constantly speed up to 5krpm when the temps hit 100 degrees then drop back down to 2400 rpm when the temps go below what looks like 95 degrees at the chip. this happens over and over with no end and sounds like a kid pullin up at the light next to u revin his mommy and daddys dodge charger just a little slower. i told them i want fan controls back in the firmware.
4. take screen shots after the miner shows 40+ minutes of runtime before sending them to bitmain. i had no idea i had the wait the better part of an hour for the miner to finally start so i emailed them after waiting and seeing socket connection errors which was a false error...it was just that the miner was testing the frequencies.
5. you can see if your miner is testing the frequencies by waiting for the miner to fully boot up and putting you hand in the air coming out. when testing frequencies the temps of the air will go warm then cold then warm then cold....it does this for like 40 minutes so if you notice the temp changes wait 40 minutes at least before assuming your miner is dead! orrrr sell you so called "dead" miner to me at a significant discount
. lol jk but this part is pretty important.this new auto freq is dangerous. i run my s9's with 2 pcie cables per board. the cables are not warm to the touch at all when using 2 because they are 16awg wires and i dont overclock the miner at all. it is easy to figure out how many to use...you just take the wattage (i have a meter) and divide it by 3 ( yes the controllers power isnt separated from the wattage just in case) and each 16awg cable if well made can handle something like 300w each but i try not to push it past 200 and change so my wires dont run hot at all. esentially what this new firmware does is make the miner less efficient because some boards are being overclocked to higher freqs making the math above useless because each board wont use about the same amount of power....the usage will fluctuate alot between the 3 boards. this is retardedddddddd.
October 16, 2016, 05:36:08 PM
May be a stupid question but has anyone changed the fans for quieter ones on the S9? How does it perform temp wise and noise wise?
not an option worth doing. gear tends to overheat.
if noise is an issue you can attempt sound proofing methods.
I have to go to the solar array today. I will photo how I use this material
https://www.amazon.com/Car-Insulation-Deadener-Automotive-Lightweight/dp/B016QUS18U/ref=sr_1_3?
with this shelfing
http://www.target.com/p/adjustable-3-tier-wide-wire-shelving-chrome-room-essentials/-/A-17136152?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_3
Thanks Philip, I'm intrigued by the thinner soundproofing method. Only reason I ask is that I'm considering an S9 just incase they don't bring out another batch of the R4 as I need to get a more efficient unit now. And as you've guessed it's a sound issue
it's dropped again after 13 hours
And the gui for the miner looks like all 3 boards are still hashing? Based on the actual hashrate it looks like one of the boards stops working. If the miner gui says everything is working normally and shows a hashrate for all 3 boards then I would be inclined to suspect it was a controller problem and not a hashboard problem.
Are the ambient temps ok? My S7LN would drop a board if it goes below 18c ambient.
thread is up on sound proofing tunnel /tent
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/solar-array-upgrade-due-to-hurricane-matthew-sound-proof-water-proof-details-1650756
October 16, 2016, 04:50:24 PM
Are S9 i/o connectors the same as S7 (18pin?). I can't tell as my S9s are at the hosting site.
Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
Yeah connectors are the same.Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
See these pictures (copyright dogiecoin.com):
S7: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5711/21733063766_1932e7d84b_o.jpg
S9: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7350/27791304401_90b0eccce8_o.jpg
So are you talking about this 18-pin cable at Bitmaintech.com?
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=00020160105105043457FPP8X92I0616
October 16, 2016, 04:37:30 PM
Are S9 i/o connectors the same as S7 (18pin?). I can't tell as my S9s are at the hosting site.
Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
Somehow, there are connectors on sale at bitmain's part shop, but they don't mention S9.
October 16, 2016, 12:46:39 PM
May be a stupid question but has anyone changed the fans for quieter ones on the S9? How does it perform temp wise and noise wise?
You can to buy and use Noctua F12 to make your antminer s9 quitebut it overheats and burns down. Another way is to use mineral oil to make it silent but when you are using mineral oil, you have to know what you are doing and remember to don't pump the oil.
Hope it will help you
October 16, 2016, 12:45:47 PM
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Are the ambient temps ok? My S7LN would drop a board if it goes below 18c ambient.
i have 3 other machines and all working fine
did you get fault red light when this happen ? because i didn't
No I didn't get a fault light at all. Just the little red light on the top of the hashing board would go out. Restart it and keep the ambient at a nice temp and it's been fine. 9days so far without a problem.
October 16, 2016, 09:50:06 AM
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Are the ambient temps ok? My S7LN would drop a board if it goes below 18c ambient.
i have 3 other machines and all working fine
did you get fault red light when this happen ? because i didn't
October 16, 2016, 09:48:06 AM
it's dropped again after 13 hours
And the gui for the miner looks like all 3 boards are still hashing? Based on the actual hashrate it looks like one of the boards stops working. If the miner gui says everything is working normally and shows a hashrate for all 3 boards then I would be inclined to suspect it was a controller problem and not a hashboard problem.
the miner display GH/S(RT) like GH/S(ideal) or close
but GH/S(avg) start to drop hour after hour
normal grean light is working on the front of the miner like everything is ok
but i still have 3TH/s dropped from my all hash rates
i think its controller too
but bitmain have a bad support and they still tell me let it go, its working fine
October 16, 2016, 09:08:52 AM
May be a stupid question but has anyone changed the fans for quieter ones on the S9? How does it perform temp wise and noise wise?
not an option worth doing. gear tends to overheat.
if noise is an issue you can attempt sound proofing methods.
I have to go to the solar array today. I will photo how I use this material
https://www.amazon.com/Car-Insulation-Deadener-Automotive-Lightweight/dp/B016QUS18U/ref=sr_1_3?
with this shelfing
http://www.target.com/p/adjustable-3-tier-wide-wire-shelving-chrome-room-essentials/-/A-17136152?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_3
Thanks Philip, I'm intrigued by the thinner soundproofing method. Only reason I ask is that I'm considering an S9 just incase they don't bring out another batch of the R4 as I need to get a more efficient unit now. And as you've guessed it's a sound issue
it's dropped again after 13 hours
And the gui for the miner looks like all 3 boards are still hashing? Based on the actual hashrate it looks like one of the boards stops working. If the miner gui says everything is working normally and shows a hashrate for all 3 boards then I would be inclined to suspect it was a controller problem and not a hashboard problem.
Are the ambient temps ok? My S7LN would drop a board if it goes below 18c ambient.
October 16, 2016, 08:50:48 AM
it's dropped again after 13 hours
And the gui for the miner looks like all 3 boards are still hashing? Based on the actual hashrate it looks like one of the boards stops working. If the miner gui says everything is working normally and shows a hashrate for all 3 boards then I would be inclined to suspect it was a controller problem and not a hashboard problem.
October 16, 2016, 08:35:20 AM
May be a stupid question but has anyone changed the fans for quieter ones on the S9? How does it perform temp wise and noise wise?
not an option worth doing. gear tends to overheat.
if noise is an issue you can attempt sound proofing methods.
I have to go to the solar array today. I will photo how I use this material
https://www.amazon.com/Car-Insulation-Deadener-Automotive-Lightweight/dp/B016QUS18U/ref=sr_1_3?
with this shelfing
http://www.target.com/p/adjustable-3-tier-wide-wire-shelving-chrome-room-essentials/-/A-17136152?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_3
October 16, 2016, 08:13:09 AM
it's dropped again after 13 hours
October 16, 2016, 07:46:40 AM
Mamiakimo, just let it run for a day and see what it's like then. All this starting and restarting will just cause you problems and cost you money.
it's working now for 13 hours without issue
October 16, 2016, 03:55:06 AM
Mamiakimo, just let it run for a day and see what it's like then. All this starting and restarting will just cause you problems and cost you money.
October 15, 2016, 11:00:26 PM
guys, can we access miner status from different location?
i mean i want to check each miner status from my office/home/mobile device since i put my miner at my warehouse (local ip usually 192.168.x.xxx),
so i dont have to go to my warehouse changing setting/checking/reset on miner.
i mean i want to check each miner status from my office/home/mobile device since i put my miner at my warehouse (local ip usually 192.168.x.xxx),
so i dont have to go to my warehouse changing setting/checking/reset on miner.
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