I used to own Antminer S3 and I still think it is one of the best miner out there
I agree with this. The S3 was the pinnacle of design from Bitmain. Everything since hashes more, but seems to be put together without much thought. If they re-designed the S8 as an S7 with the ease of use and sound profile of the S3s they'd have a blockbuster miner.
Yeah a two blade S7 with the enclosure and fans with a lower minimum RPM, we'd be in S1/S3 territory. Also one thing that's putting me off from S7 at the moment is the way the heatsink are holding in place...
They're not bolted or anything so they can fall if the thermal compound heat. Or sometimes they get lose after getting a little kick.
I kind of wish we could go back to the S3 thermal level, except we'd be getting 1400-1700GH/s out of the cute little quiet thing. And no need to plug in 10 fucking pci-e port per miner either.
That last one make it feel like a cash grab, inciting people to buy their PSU, instead of existing options.
Yes and if it turned out that Batch 8 has a Buck Converter and Software adjustable Voltage and they went back to a one piece heatsink and all of the above.
Rich
