Quote from: Chris_Sabian on September 11, 2015, 03:07:15 PM

Quote from: guitarplinker on September 11, 2015, 02:59:29 AM

I just received an S7 earlier today for reviewing for a computer hardware site, AMA!

Here are some quick things I've found during a couple hours of testing:
-The miner is VERY loud. Compared to a ZeusMiner Thunder X6/GAWMiner Falcon, this miner is definitely louder. However, one thing to mention is that although the unit has two fans, I suspect one of the fans is dead (swapped plugins, fan shows an RPM on the Miner Status page but isn't spinning up at all). So if both fans were working, the unit would probably be a little quieter. But it's the miner is very audible through a door, about 30 feet away, even when listening to music slightly louder than a normal conversation through speakers. However, this single fan blows a ton of air, similar to other miners. It blows enough air to be an effective hand dryer. The noise really reminds me of a vacuum cleaner on full speed.

-My review unit is hashing away at about 4.60TH/s. A little lower than what BITMAIN claims, but still a very good rate.

-Import fees were fairly high for me, BITMAIN claimed the package as the full value when shipping it out, and I was charged a total of $131.48 CAD from UPS for delivery ($121.48 for customs fees, and $10 for brokerage fees)

-The unit uses DHCP - no more plugging it directly into a PC and modifying settings if you aren't using the default 192.168.x.x domain hardcoded into older Antminer miners, very nice for those not using the 192.168 subdomain.

Those were a few things I noticed during the first couple hours of testing, but yeah, be sure to let me know if you have any more questions. I don't think I'll overclock it for awhile, so don't expect to get answers on that. Tongue

Careful with only running 1 fan. I had an AM Prisma that only had 1 fan. The miner was using ~1100 watts and the single fan failed. In a short order, the miner caught fire and was destroyed in a nice flaming bunch of expensive electronics.

Watch air closly as you dont want to get to hot. Warranty has changed a lot on what you can do at this point.

Open up a RMA with a ticket and hopefully they send you one for free. If nothing else it documents you had permission to mess with fan.