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Re: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order
by
NotFuzzyWarm
on 22/11/2016, 16:35:01 UTC
Has anyone tried the firmware from 11-19? I'm giving it a shot on one machine right now. Curious how it is working for others?
Batch 16 is when the autotune was introduced so any after that are autotune only.

As I've said earlier on here IMHO Bitmain forced autotune boost the # of chips they can actually use instead of scrapping under performers. I have a batch 18 with wildly different speeds per-board but in total the miner runs at advertised 11 TH/s. Barely. My guess is they stuff the boards then test to get speed ranges for binning. After that they pick combinations of fast/slow boards to make the miner reach target speed.

ref that b18 miner to the b23 I just got -- on this newest one all boards are running 649.7 to 649.9 MHz to produce 14.129 THs. Obviously the b23 boards were cherry-picked for them.