ok setup 12 ants to use it.  Will give it a try.  Thx and used you are refer.

Fahlcor

i remember when S1 delivered by BITMAIN was overclocked. and on that case RMA didn't support.
I will dig to find it. but in original thread there were few issues like that. .

What is the best moddiff for s3

You are right. I've ordered 4 such pigtails. And 2 antennas. ) My order has already arrived in Russia and passed the customs. 

http://www.dx.com/p/182752

http://www.dx.com/p/5259

The biggest load is on an Antminer is cgminer, because it does all the work.
Installing the latest cgminer (which does NOT void your warranty) will, it has been shown, reduce the load by a significant margin.

I am actually surprised at your results, I would have thought the wifi connected antminer would have a higher load than the cat5 connected one, and that it would be reflected in the Diff that has been allocated by the pool, aka I would have expected the cat5 connected ant to have a higher Diff. Could you check your pool-side speeds and see if they reflect the GUI speeds? Also, what are the DiffR numbers for each? (PS. I'll expect a slightly higher DiffR on the wifi connected ant, assuming they are connected to the same pool)

I wouldn't expect power consumption to be significantly impacted.  The load average is usually on a small router-grade CPU that the units use to run the basic functions.  Power-wise, the core OS probably uses a maximum of about 1 amp (though I suspect it's less than .5 amps).  Less load on this probably affects that power draw by 10% - maybe 20%.  In short, you're talking about a less than a 200 MA difference in power draw, at best.

Reading the last few pages I opted to install the latest cgminer on what had been the problem S3, #2.  Before doing so I ran opkg list-installed | grep cgminer on both S3's so as to ascertain the present version.  Both had 3.12.0-1.  I downloaded the latest version on #2 and ran opkg list-installed again.  Right now I'm guessing that installing via wget and rebooting doesn't update the installed listing as after installation of the latest cgminer the installed list still showed 3.12.0-1.  Since that has the lower loads it could be the more efficient miner.

I will install the latest cgminer on #1 and check back a little later today.

The poolside hashrate show #1 to be lower now, GUI 438.38, # 1 having the higher load (2.46) and hardware errors.  #1, cat5 connected, seems to have rebooted 22 minutes ago for no reason, now has a low hardware error count (of course only running 22 minutes) of 5, DIFF 449, DiffA 165394, DiffR 0, DiffS 0.

#2 poolside hashrate higher by 11.7%, GUI 440.28, wifi connected, lower load (1.39), DIFF 367, DiffA 6,986,294, DiffR 5505, DiffS 0.

#2 has new thermal paste applied yesterday.  I'll be picking more up today and might rip #1 apart to change.  Again, I'll download the cgminer to #1 and get back later with new stats.

the s3+ firmware + the 4.6 cg miner has pretty much got rid of the hardware errors I was getting on one of my S3s.  ok it was only 1.5% (according to Mantmonitor) now it's 0.0018%.

you can check the version via the api


I have noticed bursts of hash rate significantly over 500 even though my frequencies shouldn't get the rate that high as I'd get an X in the row of os when using the higher frequencies  one is on 237.5 and the other 231.25. just spotted one claiming 657.

I have noticed bursts of hash rate significantly over 500 even though my frequencies shouldn't get the rate that high as I'd get an X in the row of os when using the higher frequencies  one is on 237.5 and the other 231.25. just spotted one claiming 657.
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Yes, I see the version number in the download URL.

Wonder what frequency the S3+'s will be shipped as.  Another 11 days or sooner....  And transit will take how long?

Ahh! you found the post about version checking .... good on you.
As far as the frequesncy of the S3+, check the product web page on bitmaintech, off my head it is 440GH/s but overclockable to 500GH/s.