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redukt

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Quote from: rkinnin on January 11, 2016, 09:04:45 PM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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do you have anything for c1's?

User smit1237 had an update for the C1 which at the very least made the stats page more useful. The site I pulled the update from appears to be offline now however.

quadriple7

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yes in my opinion you should do that becouse it will work much better .

kano

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Quote from: rkinnin on January 11, 2016, 09:04:45 PM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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do you have anything for c1's?

No.

rkinnin

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Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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do you have anything for c1's?

BannedDK

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Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 04:39:46 PM

Quote from: BannedDK on January 09, 2016, 10:46:01 AM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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thanks alot, ill try it out on the s3´s when i got the time. a faster miner is always welcome Grin

Oh there might be some misunderstanding there ...
It wont hash GHs noticeably faster - you wont get an obvious hash rate increase

You will expect a minor improvement there though.

The miner code itself is optimised to use way less CPU so it will be faster at processing incoming work, processing shares and sending them out.
So everything runs way smoother and way less internal latency in the miner.
You'll notice it obviously on the web page itself, it will usually update much faster.
... and of course as I mentioned, you'll see the Load Average much lower (in the top left)

I also allow the internal work diff to be higher, closer to the pool value, so that also reduces the amount of internal processing, but shows higher variance on the miner display.
That won't, however, change the amount of shares sent to the pool at all, it's an internal performance improvement.

i know it wont be Hashing faster, but just perform faster Cheesy

2 of them are really slow, takes ages to log in and see stats and so on, so a upgrade might be usefull

OneInchWonder

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Updated both S3 and S3+. Had no problems.
I can tell miner is running way better. I looked at the numbers on the top left and they way down from 2.70+ to under .5 most of the time.
Also over clocking the S3 is just like S3+ now.

Thanks.

My broken miner had this on it. It was my first miner and wanted to see what this mining is about.

kano

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Quote from: BannedDK on January 09, 2016, 10:46:01 AM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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thanks alot, ill try it out on the s3´s when i got the time. a faster miner is always welcome Grin

Oh there might be some misunderstanding there ...
It wont hash GHs noticeably faster - you wont get an obvious hash rate increase

You will expect a minor improvement there though.

The miner code itself is optimised to use way less CPU so it will be faster at processing incoming work, processing shares and sending them out.
So everything runs way smoother and way less internal latency in the miner.
You'll notice it obviously on the web page itself, it will usually update much faster.
... and of course as I mentioned, you'll see the Load Average much lower (in the top left)

I also allow the internal work diff to be higher, closer to the pool value, so that also reduces the amount of internal processing, but shows higher variance on the miner display.
That won't, however, change the amount of shares sent to the pool at all, it's an internal performance improvement.

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Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 07:07:09 AM

Quote from: OneInchWonder on January 09, 2016, 01:22:54 AM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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I will give it try.
Is your update for S3, S3+ or both because i have both.

Both, but it wont fix a broken miner.
My post was to the OP, not to fixing miners that are broken.
Put it on the un-broken ones

My update can't kill a miner, it's not a flash.

Thanks for the info. The broken one is shiped out to Pinhead to look at.

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Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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thanks alot, ill try it out on the s3´s when i got the time. a faster miner is always welcome Grin

kano

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Quote from: OneInchWonder on January 09, 2016, 01:22:54 AM

Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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I will give it try.
Is your update for S3, S3+ or both because i have both.

Both, but it wont fix a broken miner.
My post was to the OP, not to fixing miners that are broken.
Put it on the un-broken ones

My update can't kill a miner, it's not a flash.

OneInchWonder

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Quote from: kano on January 09, 2016, 12:17:10 AM

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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I will give it try.
Is your update for S3, S3+ or both because i have both.

kano

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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4

If it's an S3, do my update.
Faster miner, lower load average, better web display, all known Bitmain bugs not present, newer version of cgminer with all related enhancements ... etc etc

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/AntS3

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OneInchWonder

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If it was we. No. If there is nothing wrong then why go change things.

I have a dead S3 do to fail update.

toptek

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AS a rules never upgrade the firm ware unless there is some thing new in the upgrade or you are having issue that the new firm ware might fix and the Warning is do it at your risk .

but if your like me i do it if it needs it or not @ my own risk , i have this thing about all my PC's etc and keeping them updated with all software they use including the firmware, on any thing i own .

BannedDK

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as the subject says, should i upgrade the firmware of all my miners or is it pointless if they run smooth?

Im no pro with cgminer or anything. just plug and play. I joined the mining fun about 6 month ago.

3 x S3 old firmware

tried to search for an answer but to many post to go through with the words "upgrade firmware" Huh

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