Re: ANTMINER S5: 1155GH(+OverClock Potential), 590W, Jan 12th Shipping [Sales Open]

Just got S5 and it is hashing steady. The noise is not bad. From the reviews I thought it was going to be much louder. Its a higher pitch for sure, its small in size and not really overwhelming. I have one setup in my bedroom and don't think it will be a problem.

I'd suggest you get your hearing checked.

Mine is in the sub level basement garage of my apartment building, and anyone who walks down to the basement garage can hear it (my garage is the furthest away in the basement)

dB readings:
Standing outside my garage door - 7meters from it - garage door, car, a wall of boxes between me and the S5: 59dB
1meter direct line of sight from the S5: 69dB
1foot above the S5: 77dB

The heat sink exit metal temp reading is only 39degress - so maybe the fan is over compensating? ...

Noise levels are relative for different people. I worked 5m away from an SP10 for 14 hours a day for about 4 months so I have a different reference frame then say someone who has only ever had an ASICMiner Cube.

Seriously? You gonna say that?

I posted dB readings ... so my post is quite specific, not a random vague "I got used to loud noises from an SP10 and now I'm deaf" comment.

Edit: Oh OK - your doing paid advertising spin - I didn't see your stupid bias comments to ckolivas before:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=902305.msg10056977#msg10056977

I'll check with Bitmain directly and see what they have to say.

Kano, you're being really aggressive the last few months and there really is zero need for it. My comment was in relation to you telling someone else to 'get their hearing checked' just because they had a different opinion on how 'loud' they felt the S5 was.

Take it down a notch please.

WTF?

I posted specific measured details, meanwhile you posted a reply opinion based on you now being deaf.

Seems what's becoming a usual comment for you is necessary.
Try actually reading my post ...

It's not quiet, and I don't have a db reader. But it is definitely not louder than my vacuum cleaner. And I'm somewhat used to prior miners fans going. This miner will probably go in another room for convenience and electricity purposes, but I'm a little bit biased. In terms of having a closed metal frame and dual fans. Personally, I like having more metal, they make my miners feel more solid and durable. But with the pace of new technologies these miners are obsolete within a matter of several months, so its not necessary to have battle-ground metal plates on the thing. Being able to stack them is raised, but I would imagine commercial data centers have all the necessary equipment to efficiently setup S5. Maybe for homes and garages it would be easy to stack several miners on top of one another, like the S2 and S4's. Even so, I'm at the point where I'd either need to find a new place to live or rent space commercially to increase my mining, and I'm not really sure that I want to do that.