Why is everyone still beating this dead horse.? It's been pretty well established that "HEAT" is NOT the cause of the S3 problems, it poor design and possible sub-par components.
We've already read that some users have put their S3's in front of A/C units and experienced no improvement.
Now we have pages of people trying to put heatsinks on chips that dont need them.
Lets face it , Bitmains first performance figures were "optimistic" and probably thrown out there in a hurry to get the machine to market, and after further testing they realized that they made a mistake.
That's why they gave us money back, not enough but a good gesture, not many companies these days would do that.
If we are into Batch 4 and possibly batch 5 with no hardware changes then I think you can safely assume that it is what it is and probably cannot be fixed.
If there was a fix to be made, I think Bitmain would have done it .
This is not a problem that firmware up grades will fix either.
JMHO
Bob
I tend to agree with you.
I believe the stock setting should be 212.5 with 430gh and 328 watts on a gold psu.
They now sell them at 218 with 441gh and 340 watts on a gold psu. >>>>>>>>> I feel this is not stock but a small overclock.
The real mystery is the s-3's that do 480gh or 500gh and freq 237 or freq 250.
