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Re: ANTMINER S3 Discussion and Support Thread.
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bitcoin4-sale.com
on 24/07/2014, 17:44:51 UTC
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.

The chains stayed the same.  I plugged in my second miner and it actually works the way it is supposed to.  I switched the PCI-e's to the other two and everything stayed the same with the ASIC.  Hooked up the 2nd PSU to the broken miner and still the same problem.