Topic: Bitmain&#039;s Released Antminer S9, World&#039;s First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 297. (Read 531168 times)

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 07:51:37 PM

So I went to bhphotovideo.com and preordered

2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

I was considering it but the ship date that they have listed worried me. I just hope it's a filler date they put into the site.

i have done business with them they are decent.

so i will await news from newegg
i will await news from provantage.

i look at all the gear and I have 8500 worth of btc miners

and while i have 5 pc's that can hold 15 video cards I have no video cards so now I at least have 2 on order

Are you talking about for ether mining?

I thought you already built a couple ether miners.

I sold all the cards to prep for the new model cards. the pc's- mobos are all empty.

but they fixed the error on bitmaintech site so I grabbed the final s-9 the array will be ready for its sixth and final miner.

the tx id is confirmed.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9f661b4b0010da5081d3b2652db0dc695a21d019d84f0f6192984f611bfa4ba3

my fifth and final s-9 should be here by friday I hope.

Ordered my second S9 also, but my power cost is $.089 @ sidehack slightly more than you. We will see if this purchase was a good decision or not in 5 or 6 months, hopefully good

I want to replace my hash from selling 20 S7s but probably wait for B6 or 7 for my next orders.

Edit: Phil did your order get confirmed by Bitmain. After 3 7 confirmations mine still shows unpaid.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 09:44:55 PM

I sold all the cards to prep for the new model cards. the pc's- mobos are all empty.

but they fixed the error on bitmaintech site so I grabbed the final s-9 the array will be ready for its sixth and final miner.

the tx id is confirmed.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9f661b4b0010da5081d3b2652db0dc695a21d019d84f0f6192984f611bfa4ba3

my fifth and final s-9 should be here by friday I hope.

Fell off the fence you did on that last S9.

Where did you sell the old cards? Ebay? I have 5 r9 290's. I thought for $250 they were a good deal but it looks like the rx 490 is going to be in the same pricing ballpark. I wonder what the performance difference will be. Lower power usage will be nice though.

I sold all the cards here at very good prices. 200 for r9 390s

And 300 for nanos.

While that is low I sold the day that eth crashed and I wanted to get my roi assured.

Right now everything for my eth gear is 100 % paid including the two rx 480s on pre order.

I have room for 13 more gpus. And will have the two up and running soon.

I could of held the cards and mined but that crashed spooked me a bit and the chance to be at even with two gpus on order and pic/ mobos ready for 13 cards was something I did not want to pass

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 09:44:55 PM

I sold all the cards to prep for the new model cards. the pc's- mobos are all empty.

but they fixed the error on bitmaintech site so I grabbed the final s-9 the array will be ready for its sixth and final miner.

the tx id is confirmed.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9f661b4b0010da5081d3b2652db0dc695a21d019d84f0f6192984f611bfa4ba3

my fifth and final s-9 should be here by friday I hope.

Fell off the fence you did on that last S9.

Where did you sell the old cards? Ebay? I have 5 r9 290's. I thought for $250 they were a good deal but it looks like the rx 490 is going to be in the same pricing ballpark. I wonder what the performance difference will be. Lower power usage will be nice though.

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Quote from: grn on June 27, 2016, 09:54:48 PM

Quote from: wmabern on June 27, 2016, 09:44:39 PM

Quote from: grn on June 27, 2016, 09:31:45 PM

Quote from: wmabern on June 27, 2016, 09:44:39 PM

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq. I have one board which underperforms as well. If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash). But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer. I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Heres what my B3 reports....

Code:

Chain# ASIC# Frequency GH/S(RT) HW Temp(PCB) Temp(Chip) ASIC status
1 63 600 4263.66 2 61 91
3 63 600 4278.41 2 63 95
4 63 600 4311.41 5 62 94

Is the low to mid 90's correct operating chip temp on the batch 3?
I've got a batch 3 coming this week.
Thanks.

Its warmer than I would prefer, But ambient is 30C right now

Thank you. I was just wondering what temps I should strive for with the S9B3.

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Quote from: grn on June 27, 2016, 09:31:45 PM

Quote from: not.you on June 27, 2016, 09:34:26 PM

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq. I have one board which underperforms as well. If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash). But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer. I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Heres what my B3 reports....

Code:

Chain# ASIC# Frequency GH/S(RT) HW Temp(PCB) Temp(Chip) ASIC status
1 63 600 4263.66 2 61 91
3 63 600 4278.41 2 63 95
4 63 600 4311.41 5 62 94

Is the low to mid 90's correct operating chip temp on the batch 3?
I've got a batch 3 coming this week.
Thanks.

Its warmer than I would prefer, But ambient is 30C right now

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 08:28:49 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 07:51:37 PM

So I went to bhphotovideo.com and preordered

2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

I was considering it but the ship date that they have listed worried me. I just hope it's a filler date they put into the site.

i have done business with them they are decent.

so i will await news from newegg
i will await news from provantage.

i look at all the gear and I have 8500 worth of btc miners

and while i have 5 pc's that can hold 15 video cards I have no video cards so now I at least have 2 on order

Are you talking about for ether mining?

I thought you already built a couple ether miners.

I sold all the cards to prep for the new model cards. the pc's- mobos are all empty.

but they fixed the error on bitmaintech site so I grabbed the final s-9 the array will be ready for its sixth and final miner.

the tx id is confirmed.

https://blockchain.info/tx/9f661b4b0010da5081d3b2652db0dc695a21d019d84f0f6192984f611bfa4ba3

my fifth and final s-9 should be here by friday I hope.

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Quote from: grn on June 27, 2016, 09:31:45 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 08:28:49 PM

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq. I have one board which underperforms as well. If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash). But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer. I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Heres what my B3 reports....

Code:

Chain# ASIC# Frequency GH/S(RT) HW Temp(PCB) Temp(Chip) ASIC status
1 63 600 4263.66 2 61 91
3 63 600 4278.41 2 63 95
4 63 600 4311.41 5 62 94

Is the low to mid 90's correct operating chip temp on the batch 3?
I've got a batch 3 coming this week.
Thanks.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on June 27, 2016, 07:51:37 PM

So I went to bhphotovideo.com and preordered

2 msi rdn rx 480 8gb gpu's cost a lot less the 2000
used a cc have a 3 year msi warranty and earn points with my cc....

this is the only competition there is for bitmaintech at the moment.

I was considering it but the ship date that they have listed worried me. I just hope it's a filler date they put into the site.

i have done business with them they are decent.

so i will await news from newegg
i will await news from provantage.

i look at all the gear and I have 8500 worth of btc miners

and while i have 5 pc's that can hold 15 video cards I have no video cards so now I at least have 2 on order

Are you talking about for ether mining?

I thought you already built a couple ether miners.

grn

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Quote from: NotFuzzyWarm on June 27, 2016, 08:32:45 PM

Hi I have received two units of S9 and both have one board hashing around 2.7

They are batch 2, is it a normal? Any tips?

Thanks!

As others have said try lowering the freq. I have one board which underperforms as well. If I do a 'save and apply' without changing anything, sometimes it will come up good (higher hash) and sometimes it will come up bad (lower hash). But lower freq usually means better odds of it coming up good when I restart cgminer. I can tell within a minute if it got a good start because it will either come up past 3000 or it wont by that time.

I've got it working with the mysterious "low voltage" firmware from June 22nd. I had to lower the frequency to 593 and reboot quite a few times but now I got it running at 12.6 TH stable, with the slow board around 4000Gh, I guess this is as good as it gets.
I'm wondering if using an alternative PSU to my bitmain one would improve, I will try to borrow one to test.

Heres what my B3 reports....

Code:

Chain# ASIC# Frequency GH/S(RT) HW Temp(PCB) Temp(Chip) ASIC status
1 63 600 4263.66 2 61 91
3 63 600 4278.41 2 63 95
4 63 600 4311.41 5 62 94

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Normaly, at most an hour or so. But - my last order for a b3 when they were available again took just under 24hrs to show up on the Bitmain site. It too had previously been marked as unpaid/unshipped..

THANKS!!!

I've already sent the emails including the tx id's -- so I'll just be patient, and see what happens tomorrow!!!

I appreciate your response, as I always get nervous -- even though I've successfully ordered MANY machines from the over the years...

EDIT: The "paid" confirmation emails arrived 12 hours after I had paid. So everything should be good!!!

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Quote from: traxor on June 27, 2016, 08:06:49 PM

I have a quick question...

I have 2 separate orders -- 1 paid in 2 minutes, the other in 20 minutes (1st confirmation)...

I did respond to the initial order email with the tx id (per Phillips advice)...

I never received the final order confirmation email. I went to their website and looked a my 2 most recent orders -- it says "unpaid/unshipped"...

It was 7 hours ago when I placed/paid for the orders...

How long does it normally take to ensure the orders are considered "complete" and not cancelled???

Thanks!!!

Normaly, at most an hour or so. But - my last order for a b3 when they were available again took just under 24hrs to show up on the Bitmain site. It too had previously been marked as unpaid/unshipped..

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