How to Overclock Your Autotune Antminer S9 - page 2.

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Quote from: Andartis on July 13, 2018, 01:16:43 PM

Umm, guys?
I just started to try to overclock my S9s from different batches.
On one 14TH model from march or so I applied the fixed frequency firmware and ramped the frequency now up to 750 MHz so far. No significant HW errors, hashrate is over 16.2 TH at 85°C chip temperature.
Are the chips really capable to do so much more?

Interesting: Tried a second S9 from the same batch. On the fixed frequency firmware temps go up to 105° C on default 650 MHz. Flashing back the autotune
Edit: 3 of 4 S9 14TH get over 100° after flashing fixed freq. firmware. Any idea why? One even showed 132°. I dont know if that is correct at all.
I did not wait and stopped the miner by deleting the pools and flashed the autotune FW again.

I heard that someone say that downgrading to november firmware can fix some issue like wrong temp reading and other miner firmware issues.

The bad thing on overclocking miner without proper air circulation or cooling device your miner can exceeds higher temp that can lead to higher temp protection and also, chips or the hashing board may burn and damage.

Did you try this method https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/solution-for-antminer-s9-fans-speed-up-down-every-20-seconds-2690140
you can modify the fan speed of autotune firmware then set it to higher speed it may help to cool down the miner.

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How about your temperatures. I flashed the fixed 650 and my temp started to raise to 109 C. I was going mad, thought I had bricked my device. Anyway, I didn't because then I flashed the auto frequency and it started to act normal. Anyway, with those temps I ain't gonna do it. Someone a suggestion? (cause otherwise I have to stop mining, cause for me the electrics are more expensive than my incomes...)

Wait til wintertime and heat the house with your miner. Save some money on the heating bill.

Hints. Saved money is earned money. (Snake in the wild..)

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Quote from: htautosjay on July 13, 2018, 03:44:39 PM

I dont know about your temp readings but i overclocked all of my S9's and ran the for a week clocked at 15 Th, what i do know is that the temp readings of 82 that i had were 100% false, they must have been closer to 100 or more.. so i thought i want to keep them running for longevity so i put them back also to Autotune.. i am in the UK and when the ambient temp drops like winter time then il re flash them and clock them up
hope that helps

I found out that the two S9 14TH that were ordered on 24th of march are able to run at 85° @ 16,1 TH.
The four S9 that were ordered on 5th of april are not working properly with the fixed frequecy firmware.
Can anybody confirm?

The two overcloced seem fine. Why do you suspect that the readings are wrong?

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Quote from: Andartis on July 13, 2018, 01:16:43 PM

Umm, guys?
I just started to try to overclock my S9s from different batches.
On one 14TH model from march or so I applied the fixed frequency firmware and ramped the frequency now up to 750 MHz so far. No significant HW errors, hashrate is over 16.2 TH at 85°C chip temperature.
Are the chips really capable to do so much more?

Interesting: Tried a second S9 from the same batch. On the fixed frequency firmware temps go up to 105° C on default 650 MHz. Flashing back the autotune
Edit: 3 of 4 S9 14TH get over 100° after flashing fixed freq. firmware. Any idea why? One even showed 132°. I dont know if that is correct at all.
I did not wait and stopped the miner by deleting the pools and flashed the autotune FW again.

I dont know about your temp readings but i overclocked all of my S9's and ran the for a week clocked at 15 Th, what i do know is that the temp readings of 82 that i had were 100% false, they must have been closer to 100 or more.. so i thought i want to keep them running for longevity so i put them back also to Autotune.. i am in the UK and when the ambient temp drops like winter time then il re flash them and clock them up
hope that helps

Andartis

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Umm, guys?
I just started to try to overclock my S9s from different batches.
On one 14TH model from march or so I applied the fixed frequency firmware and ramped the frequency now up to 750 MHz so far. No significant HW errors, hashrate is over 16.2 TH at 85°C chip temperature.
Are the chips really capable to do so much more?

Interesting: Tried a second S9 from the same batch. On the fixed frequency firmware temps go up to 105° C on default 650 MHz. Flashing back the autotune
Edit: 3 of 4 S9 14TH get over 100° after flashing fixed freq. firmware. Any idea why? One even showed 132°. I dont know if that is correct at all.
I did not wait and stopped the miner by deleting the pools and flashed the autotune FW again.

htautosjay

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Ok after runnung these all day playing with the frequency.. I have settled on setting the 656.5M, that gives the S9's a solid 14 TH , its a 500 increase over standard. my personal thoughts are.. yes i can get them to 14,800 TH but at what cost?....i have been looking at burnt out boards from over clocking.. better stay safe me thinks.. until we can see what is a safe TH to over clock to.

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Ok Update...
Had a couple of machines building up diffA % so adjusted UP to 706.5m seems to be running sweeter and ironed out %DiffA and zero HW errors...now 14,860 Th

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Now got 10 S9,s running on 650m firmware, i have adjusted them up to 675m, i am on slushpool as i get lease HW faults from them.. want to keep these babies happy.. i had one S9 start racking up DiffA faults so i backed it off to 656.25m and its running fine..at 675m they are 14.400 Th

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Quote from: wolfhead on April 13, 2018, 01:18:58 PM

Just an update, I have two S9s running at 706m, hashing at 15.1 Th/s for a full week and no problems. HW errors at .0002%, low temps.

Hay buddy, I have just loaded the 650M FFQ Firmware to 4 of my units, they were on 13.5 auto freq, they are running perfect at 14,200/14300, the fan speeds are set at max lower i see, seems ok, but its cool outside,

note: Since upgraded TH I have a......Load Average 0.92, 0.77, 0.50?
Is that the power its pulling on each board?

This is the load average on a standard S9 Nov 17 firmware on Auto Freq 0.26, 0.26, 0.24
Ideas ?
Really impressed with your findings

Cheers

Thanks
Jase

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You must have seen the post I made on the s9 topic where I detailed how to do this! Thanks for making a thread out of it. Has anyone found a good frequency to use that is stable without recompiling bminer to use more power. Figure the odds of damaging it are slim if your just bumping up the frequency without pushing more power to it.

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So while we're on the subject, what's the highest hashrate that you all have achieved using a 13.5T-rated S9 with a 1600W psu?

My current best is 14.7T stable. It seems to max out the psu near 14.8T.

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Quote from: Philopolymath on May 04, 2018, 07:34:53 AM

They fixed freq does not offer the option edit or choose the freq. it is exactly set to 650...so how did you manage to set 660.xx???

You can set the freq in cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi. The default (with the 650M fw) is 650.00M, but you could set it at 656.25M or 662.50M etc. as long as you are not concerned about voiding any warranty protection you might have.

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FYI...I also have got a under-performing Autotune 14Th S9 ...(Nov 17 Batch... lazy dog did only 13.6)
I flashed the 650 fixed freq. firmware onto it and it is now doing 13.9Th... no issues with temps or errors.
They fixed freq does not offer the option edit or choose the freq. it is exactly set to 650...so how did you manage to set 660.xx???

My other 14's are doing fine with the autotune... they are all running at near 650

wolfhead

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Installing the older fixed rate firmware will not let you adjust voltage or fan speed.

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Voltage is controlled inside the bmminer code, as is fan speed. I don't see any active way to modify them short of a recompile of bmminer, which isn't too hard.

However, you can skip all this downgrading shenanigans if you want, since the rootfs is ubi and mounted rw. --fixed-freq is the required command line for bmminer, which is called by single-board-test (statically in the binary). If you create a shell script (/usr/bin/bmminer) that calls the original bmminer executable, it will be run and you can intercept and change the parameters.

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So dropping the other firmware allows for overclocking and presumably underclocking, does it open up the Voltage and/or fan PWM speed% as well?

wolfhead

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Just an update, I have two S9s running at 706m, hashing at 15.1 Th/s for a full week and no problems. HW errors at .0002%, low temps.

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Just another tidbit... I've had (4) machines now lose their configurations when downgrading from 1171 to the 650 fixed firmware. No big deal, beyond the confusion figuring out that they had new DCHP assigned addresses.

Update: It appears that by controlling the card speeds I've managed to get a couple of "dead" cards back online. By "dead" I mean those that appear under miner status with an expected Ideal rating, but a 0 RT rating. Obviously, having (3) cards hashing a bit slower is better than (2) cards hashing at full speed and one dead.

Note on Update: Not sure how much this has to do with the fixed frequency option, or simply as Fanatic26 has repeatedly pointed out: The 1117 firmware sucks.

wolfhead

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I originally, accidentally did the firmware reversion to the wrong miner, I got my open windows mixed up and loaded the fixed frequency firmware to a perfectly good 14TH/s miner.
I freaked out at first because that wasn't the miner I was willing to risk.
But I actually didn't have any issues reverting that miner back to the autotune firmware.
It does appear to be hashing at a lower frequency then before but still maintaining 14+TH/s.
Orgininally the good miner was hashing between 649M and 661M, but with the good miner back on autotune it's at about 649M and 656M, but as I said, still maintaining 14+ TH/s.

The sickly miner still appears to be running good maintaining 14.2TH/s with the fixed frequency firmware loaded running at 662M.

It sounds like the firmware swap gave you a definite improvement to your under performing miner.
That's awesome. Glad to hear.

Hopefully some more people will be able to replicate the results.

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Math doesn't care what you believe.

For what its worth: I've swapped several controller cards over the past couple of months with new ones I purchased from Bitmain. All the new ones start out with a set frequency of 450. Each time I've thought this was cool, because it would confirm that all my hash cards were accessible and had basic functionality.

Based on the above post, I just finished taking one of my "underperformers" (a 13.6TH machine rated at 14TH) and reverting it to fixed 650 firmware, then bumped it from 650 to 662. One of the 3 cards is clocking a fair number of hardware errors at that speed, but overall the box is running at 13.93-13.98TH, an improvement.

About to revert it back just to see if it reverts to 13.6 (you know, basic scientific testing principles: any phenomena needs to be shown to be repeatable at least 3 times, ideally at least 5 times, to draw a cause-and-effect conclusion).

Update: Still playing, but having problems getting it to revert to auto-frequency - even with the November autofreq firmware. The good news is that with the 1117 firmware, but fixed frequency, its still hashing at near 14Th and without hardware errors. Weird.

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