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Re: ANTMINER S4 Black Friday Deals 0.409USD/GH/s, FREE International Shipping
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on 16/12/2014, 14:00:08 UTC
Quote from: neo9436 on December 15, 2014, 08:41:02 PM
Quote from: suchmoon on December 15, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
Quote from: neo9436 on December 15, 2014, 06:59:14 PM
How many people have upgraded the S4 firmware to: initramfs.bin.SD-20141016.tar.gz from the bitmain website?

I only ask because mine is still running on the factory firmware no problem with difficulty manually set, so I'm kind of wondering if I should bother with the upgrade.

I don't think you'll be able to get an accurate number of people Smiley

Even if you don't currently have any problems you might have issues if you ever want to switch pools. I had trouble with some rentals - for some reason even December delivery S4s came with old firmware - upgraded to the 1016 version and haven't seen any problems since.

I really only asked because I've been seeing people have more problems after upgrading the firmware (not necessarily with the S4, but with S3's for sure), and I've kind of been taking the "If it isn't broke don't fix it" position with my miners.

Nothing wrong with the S4 firmware, just this S3 one. S4 firmware has of a bit of a hash rate boost.