Well the S3's destroyed my Thermaltake 600W PSUs which had previously been powering cubes without any issues. They ran fine with them for about 30 minutes although cables were getting pretty hot, not 100% sure why it killed them yet. One PSU went peacefully, the other gave a nice fireworks display.      Ended up using a Corsair RM1000 to power both and they have been running pretty good since, with no hot cables.  

For the past few days one S3 was only avging 380GHs and showed no 'x' and everything looked fine but after a reboot it kicked it somewhat back in gear. Currently around 430GHs avg now. The other has been running fine avging 440GHs. No overclocking attempts at this point.

Thanks for replying, I'm hoping some more will share stories.

Which model thermaltake psu was that? You used it for only one unit?

This is the main reason I am on the search for a quality PSU which can handle the proper power on the 12V rail. I'm worried about using split pci-e cables because 24/7 operation and hot cables doesn't always end up good Problem for me searching is the amount of PCI-e cables that actually come with most sub 1000w psu. I might end up getting a handful of the molex to PCI-e adapters

Thermaltake TR2-600NL2NC
https://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model_Specification.aspx?id=C_00002032

I had 1 powering each S3. I initially tried using the split cable with both PCIx connections, but ended up using the split cable to power 1 connection on the S3 and using an adapter to convert 2x LP4s to a PCIx and used that as the 2nd connection - this may have been a mistake but my intent was to balance out the heating of the cables, which was a bigger issue using the split cable. The RM1000 has been running fine and the cables are cold (and flat)

Batch 3 is shipping.

2014-07-05 12:26:34

Try a different PSU.

You can always check out eBay. There are 100s of miners available and you can use PayPal.

yeah but right now these overclock like shit.  So use 2 cables and power 3 with the evga

I've been wondering.  Is it really worth trying to OC these?  Is the risk worth the result?

By OCing you:

1 - void your warranty
2 - risk damaging your Ant
3 - use more electricity
4 - generate more heat
5 - need to use 2x the PSU cables

All for a measly increase in hashrate?

M

I guess it also depends on whether you want to milk the hardware down to every single last milihash worth before difficulty skyrockets, or be content with letting it run at stock hoping that hardware wouldn't break down prematurely.

Big thanks to Bitmain!

Just wanted to thank Bitmain for keeping their promise and ensuring that the S3 is compatible with p2pool.

I've had 4x stock S3's hashing on p2pool for ~24 hours and have been achieving the expected hash rate.



You can see the 4 miners stats here: http://minefast.coincadence.com/miner.php?id=19vXrwKGUhK4cCU8tA4kWZgbChcmh9a6qj

Nice work Bitmain!