Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.

Hi,

Is anyone able to help me out? I purchased 2 of the S3's and bought the Enermax Triatholor ECO 550W 80 Plus Bronze PSU (one for each S3). It says the DC output is +12V 42A 504W. I hooked one PCI-e connector to one side of the machine and hooked up another PCI-e to the opposite side using only two of the four connections. The machine never reaches over 330 - 340 GH/s. Do I need to overclock this machine to reach the 478 GH/s, or do I need to buy a bigger PSU, or both? If I need a bigger PSU which is recommended?

please post your miner status page

Here are my miner stats

Something is off with chain 2. I've never seen that with the -o and it should be 16 not 32. What happens if you swap the PCI-e connector? If they chains swap info I'd say you have a PSU problem. If they stay the same I would think it's the miner.

That one blade looks hosed. Swap the PCI-e connecters as suggested and see what happens. If the problems remain on the same blade (the second one in the GUI) then open it up and check the ribbon connectors to the blade boards and make sure they are all good.