Topic: What's the quietest, most power miner if you don't care about power efficiency - page 2. (Read 5775 times)

Would they work with the S1?  The S1s I bought don't have stock fans with PWM they are hard wired in and always run at full clip.  I wanted to change the fans out but no point in investing $ on an S1.  I can put them in my room with an open window (good old Canadian winters) and keep the internal temp at 25C but can't sleep with the fan running 100%.   It wouldn't be a bad investment if I'm going to use them on something else later

I'd be willing to buy them off you if they have PWM.

antminer s-3 with this fan

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A460TK6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


will result in near silence .  One fan needs a slight mod to the edge of it. 

I have two from my s-5 sitting in a box.

 they work okay on the s-5 due to the open  case design ,but  they work great on the s-3.

Well maybe not necessarily the most powerful.  Best bang for buck so to speak while trying to make sure I don't fall off the end of the curve in 3 months.  

I bought 2 ant S1 with a corsair rm850 to get started.  I hope/plan to ROI on the S1s (not power supply) after 60-90 days (assuming 15% average diff increase) and now that I've got my feet wet and have learnt so much I'm trying to line up what my next move would be.

Please don't say, " just buy coins. Don't mine."  I'm doing this for fun and only hope to have a hobby that is break-even.

At this Diff on my current pool I'm averaging .004 BTC/day, so 0.0000111/GH.  My thoughts are that 1) I can stay a few generations behind and as long as I'm purchasing at $0.25/GH (or 0.000877 BTC/GH) My ROI would be not too far out each time I upgrade I keep a low risk.

Example

buy Ant S3 on ebay for $110 USD and just swap out one of my S1s, then do that again a month or so later.  The thing I hear about the S3 is that it's loud.

Or 2) Get a Spondoolie SP20 for $425 (again $0.25/GH) and invest in a second rm 850 to power it up.  Again I hear it's loud but now I'll have some hashing power behind me and I won't be too worried about falling off the end of the curve for at least a little bit.

or 3) Ant C1


Is 1 Sp20 louder than 2 S1/S3s?

I think your most powerful miner will be the most efficient ones as well, Moore's Law and all that.

antminers arent that bad... not totally silent thou.. but it's acceptable!

Like the title says.  I don't pay for hydro so I'm not worried about my consumption at all.  I want to mine out of my apartment so noise and hashrate are my only 2 concerns.  What would be the best I could buy that is quiet and under $1k