Quote from: eleuthria on October 09, 2014, 06:25:01 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 06:21:32 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on October 09, 2014, 06:11:51 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on October 09, 2014, 06:06:08 AM

Since Slush has their Diff made to AUTOMATICALLY adjust, does this mean the S4 will be fine on Slush?

Every decent pool has their difficulty automatically adjust. The problem is that they all start at a base level and adjust up from there unless the user sets a minimum level/starting level (which most pools also have the ability to change). If the user keeps the minimum/starting level too low, the S4 will choke to death before it is adjusted to an adequate level.

Thank you, eleuthria.

I just finished reading ck's work around (hack) for the firmware. He also mentioned it may be a little late at this point in production to fix the hardware issue. It's rather disappointing news. I'm not sure what to do at the moment. I'll have to think on it a while. I want at least 22 to 25 TH's mining here at my house with as little power consumption as possible. I liked the sound of the S4 until now. I'm just not sure anymore.

If I remember correctly, aren't you owner or co-owner of btcGuild? If so, does your pool allow me to adjust/set the minimum starting level to avoid this issue with the S4? I know GHash has this ability but I would rather do the guild than hash.

Yes, BTC Guild has had user selectable difficulty on the worker management for ages (just a few days after stratum was announced).

Thank you very much!!!

I'm NEW to mining [September 22, 2014] BUT MOTIVATED! I have 10 S3's hashing at the moment and 6 more S3's will arrive Friday or Saturday along with PSU's. I only want to get 8 Bitmain S4's to bring me up to a total of 23.7 TH's and 16,520 watts at the wall in my house. Looking for a warehouse or something for later to expand my mining farm.

I've only done BTC Guild, Slush, CK'sPool and GHash. I'm NOT a hopper. I've just registered and tried several different pools to see what they were like. I obviously did not look at the "worker" configuration in your pool enough to notice the Diff setting OR I just don't remember it. I know Slush adjusts automatically and probably starts low then builds up like you said. So, I know now I will not be pointing S4's towards Slush.

Thanks again for your help!!!