ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Moria843]

B8 ordered on 9 Sep shipped today 

[Count_Frackula]

Still I can not install 4.6

Where at bitmain menu s3
I must write the
Cd..

And.....

Please phrase your question in the form of a question, or try searching this thread for your answer.

[visdude]

Need inputs & advice please,

How much watts when it comes to power supply that can power 1 Antminer S3 and how much Amp in 12v rail does it need?

I have 5 antminer S3 and planning to buys separate power supply for each.

Thanks & Regards,

It needs about 30 amps on 12V but I don't think it's a good idea to have a separate power supply for each. You will end up with 5 power supplies (450-500W each) and a mess of cables, while you could get one 800-850W and one 1200-1300W PSU and put 2 and 3 miners on them respectively.

So 1200 watts is good for 3 antminers S3.

Actually my problem is here in Saudi they don't have much supplier when it comes to PC and all they hay is 400w to 500w PSU, but they have a 1300 watts platinum but price is overkill.

Anyway I have not made any decisions yet, any advice on brand if ever I go separate power supply?

Thanks,

 

Ok, in that case get some good 500W ones, 80+ silver/gold if you can. Corsair is fairly good, not sure what else is there in that range.

Edit: technically 450W is sufficient if not overclocked.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try 450W since I'm not into OC'ing.

Most if not all sub-500W ATX PSUs only have one PCIe power connector.  If you intend to have a dedicated PSU for each S3, just get a Corsair CX500 (not the modular version CX500M) if that's available in Saudi.  It's a proven workhorse for the S3 and reasonably priced.

[visdude]

I just got my 2 S3+, they are actually worse than my batch 6 S3
I have overclocked my first S3 to 243,75 MHZ and 250 MHZ,
I can't get the S3+ working above the standard 225 MHZ


they promised th S3+ is better as it should normally be, but I see this is worse !

What settings did you try?

I tried all settings, 237, the chips get from ooooo to oxoox, they get fried lol

I can only assume that the chips are getting hot.  Did you at least try to re-torque the heat sink screws before firing them up to make sure they're safely snug and properly seated?

[heldertb]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

[Count_Frackula]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

[heldertb]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

Okay, but what about the chips that fail? I can't restart the miner like every hour or so?...

[Count_Frackula]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

Okay, but what about the chips that fail? I can't restart the miner like every hour or so?...

Getting an x on chips only when you clock it up is symptomatic with the issues that caused them to clock them down to 225 MHz.  If you have issues at 225 MHz, RMA with Bitmain.  If you have no issues at 225 MHz, there's nothing wrong.

[heldertb]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

Okay, but what about the chips that fail? I can't restart the miner like every hour or so?...

Getting an x on chips only when you clock it up is symptomatic with the issues that caused them to clock them down to 225 MHz.  If you have issues at 225 MHz, RMA with Bitmain.  If you have no issues at 225 MHz, there's nothing wrong.

too bad, I think my miners won't hit 453GH/s at 225MHz...

[Count_Frackula]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

Okay, but what about the chips that fail? I can't restart the miner like every hour or so?...

Getting an x on chips only when you clock it up is symptomatic with the issues that caused them to clock them down to 225 MHz.  If you have issues at 225 MHz, RMA with Bitmain.  If you have no issues at 225 MHz, there's nothing wrong.

too bad, I think my miners won't hit 453GH/s at 225MHz...

They should, but if they can't, take it up with Bitmain.

[twib2]

too bad, I think my miners won't hit 453GH/s at 225MHz...

They should, but if they can't, take it up with Bitmain.

Only worthwhile if you're lacking by 5%, it would seem...

I have not had good experience with their support/RMA folks.  It took me a month to get a single S3 hashing board replaced, and that's when I had it fail, put a deposit so they could ship it before they received my return, AND they didn't send me the blade with heatsinks.

[CHAOSiTEC]

So I have my S3+'s up and running, but I'm trying to overclock them to 237.5MHz. But they get a lot of hardware errors (sometimes up to 5%), and sometimes the chips starts showing x's.
Is there anything to solve this? I guess the S3+ from B8 are installed with latest firmware?

Also, I don't really know what pool to choose, currently mining on Eligius/Discus Fish. any suggestions?

As the product info on Bitmain's own page says, not all S3s will got to 500, so no, not really any way to solve it.
As Blizzard would say, "Working as intended".


Source:

Bitmain now announce the S3+, which is a revised version of S3 running stably at 453GH/s (frequency=225 MHz), while consumes 355 Watt power at the wall. Most of miners will be able to run up to 500GH/s but not guaranteed.

(Emphasis mine)

Okay, but what about the chips that fail? I can't restart the miner like every hour or so?...

Getting an x on chips only when you clock it up is symptomatic with the issues that caused them to clock them down to 225 MHz.  If you have issues at 225 MHz, RMA with Bitmain.  If you have no issues at 225 MHz, there's nothing wrong.

too bad, I think my miners won't hit 453GH/s at 225MHz...

S3+ Specifications:


Hash Rate: 453 GH/s±5% with great OC potential
Power Consumption: 355 Watt at the wall
Power Efficiency: 0.78J/GH on wall
Power Supply: 12V DC
Size:  331 mm x 137 mm x 160 mm
Fans: Two 14038 fans mounted on both front and back ends
Operating Temperature: 0 °C to 35 °C
Complied with: FCC / CE
Network Connection: Ethernet

please note the +/- 5%

[lordmykl]

Batch 10 just showed up on Bitmain's site...at least the price is right for ROI.

https://i.imgur.com/SPOSNBA.png

[soy]

Sorry about the off topic but:  Perplexed rather than paranoid, something odd has occurred since checking the UPS shipping status of my S3+'s from China.  I have two drives in this system both new this year, a 2TB main drive and a 3TB backup.  Upon getting notification that the units were shipped I checked the UPS tracking and saw the status but about that time one of my hard drives started making sounds as if moving data to the inner area of the drive and that read arm was loud in its snapping movement.  It's been happening every once in a while since.  Meanwhile I've downloaded SeaTools and fast check the drives and both are okay and now doing a long drive test.  So, NSA or China screwing with my system?

[Count_Frackula]

Sorry about the off topic but:  Perplexed rather than paranoid, something odd has occurred since checking the UPS shipping status of my S3+'s from China.  I have two drives in this system both new this year, a 2TB main drive and a 3TB backup.  Upon getting notification that the units were shipped I checked the UPS tracking and saw the status but about that time one of my hard drives started making sounds as if moving data to the inner area of the drive and that read arm was loud in its snapping movement.  It's been happening every once in a while since.  Meanwhile I've downloaded SeaTools and fast check the drives and both are okay and now doing a long drive test.  So, NSA or China screwing with my system?

I'd have to hear the noise to be sure, but usually when a drive makes any loud snapping noises, it's having trouble reading and is failing.  You can monitor it real-time though using Task Manager > Performance > Resource Monitor.

[jelin1984]

I mean how I can put in and which menu of bitmain
I must use for
Updated the cgminer to 4.6

[Biodom]

I mean how I can put in and which menu of bitmain
I must use for
Updated the cgminer to 4.6

you do not use the bitmain menu
you ssh into miner, then use commands on page 317 of this board.
...if i correctly understood what you asked

[davecoin]

Hey all, I was updating my batch 1 S3 units to the latest firmware and one of them is having troubles booting now.  I cannot access it via the webui or via ssh.  I attempted a hard reset using the button on the front so I know the address of the miner should be 192.168.1.99.  Red light is blinking. I'm familiar with how to talk to the miners as I've had around 10 S1, a couple S2, and 10 S3.  This is the only one giving me issues.  

I swapped control boards with another S3 and it's working fine, so the hashing boards are okay.  I sent an email requesting an RMA for the control board.  

Does anybody have anything else I can try?

Thanks,
Dave

[MoreBloodWine]

Ok, so since I formatted my hdd in my laptop like two weeks ago. I lost some of my favorite links.

Can someone post me a ink on the new firmware I have with the stuff to edit so I can get 243.75 added back in. I think it was removed when this (the S3) got reset.

Ty.

[lordmykl]

So....long story short, I have a total of Eighteen S3+ Antminers that are in a building that for most of the time is not used.  Every once in a while, however, it is used, so I want to be able to easily drop the fan noise down via a scripted approach. I have Teamviewer access to a live system there and I've used Putty to SSH into individual miners to change frequency on individual units. What would be a good scripted approach to change them en masses from say 250M to 212.5M and back?  Sequential IPs and all same username/PW...

Thanks in advance!