That's what lack of competition will do. Bitmain claim's this is their last run of s5's. I hope they have something in the works for the next generation or mining will be hard for the average joe.

Remember that guy with the two blown chips and the side panels looked like they were doing the wave about two months ago? This is probably what happened to him. I thought something didn't add up in his story. Maybe he was the first to have this happen to his S5, it would explain the warping issue he had.

That explains a lot.


Gun stores provide Guns and ammo. Does that mean that I should start shooting up the place because they made the guns and ammo available to be used? There's a time and place for everything. I feel as a representative of a business you should not be using them. I own a small online store. I have 8 people working for me. Two of them work the different social media outlets. I would fire them if they used emoticons. When they respond to customers to address a problem or explain a product or anything else they represent my company. On their own facebook or twitter accounts I don't care what they choose to post. Now, if my business was to make and sell emoticons, then I would emoticon every post or update I made, but I don't, so I don't. I would like for my customers if they do run into a problem with my product to believe that they could contact me and get the problem resolved, instead of asking for help and getting   as a response.

But you know it's just my opinion. I have no confidence in clowns, and that is what I feel your portraying Bitmain Tech as. Until I see a change I will not place any orders with Bitmain, because if for any reason I do have an issue with their product I don't want   as a response to me losing money.

I have said my peace and will not make any further comments on this issue. Yes, it is an issue whether you believe it to be or not. I know some people are placing orders with Bitmain because they are the only one taking orders right now. I hope no has any problems with the equipment they have ordered. good luck to everyone in their mining adventures.

Seriously? I have lost all respect for bitmain as a company. Is it being run by a bunch of guys in high school? No, really I want to know. Go to a local business school and ask one of the professors if emoticons are a proper form of communication for a business. If you want to emoticon text messages to your friends until you wear out your phone, go ahead no one cares what you and your friends do. This is a business. Can you please start treating it like one?

It was nice while it lasted.

That's what I'm talking about. Some useful information given out without the use of emoticons. I would call this professional. Thanks.

You can try M's Monitor too. I've personally never used it, but I think it list all of the miner's on the local network, here's a link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=596178.0

Batch 5 is for 1 to 1599 units. Batch 6 is for 1600 units. Those that are buying 50+ are contacting bitmain to try to get a deal.

I don't have and order. I was just venting my frustration at the lack of professionalism that is being portrayed here. Maybe I'm wrong, but in my opinion you shouldn't be joking with the customers that are clearly frustrated by this ddos attack. Yes it does affect you, but it also affects your customers who place orders. Who knows, maybe it's because you've had 3 hours of sleep since this started and your starting to hallucinate from the lack of sleep. But, emoticons were used before the ddos attack was announced so, probably not.  

Apparently their's enough time to come up with some cartoons, but not enough time to clear up repeated complaints about purchases not being confirmed. Also, I don't understand why bitman is taking this ddos attack is a big joke. " " wouldn't be my reaction to someone doing a ddos on my website. I don't think any part of this is funny. Whoever is dictating for bitmainwarranty needs to take a class in business etiquette. We're not in high school anymore. " " is a poor response from a business at any time unless your business is selling jokes. I don't currently have any orders with bitmain. I thought $320 was a hair high, the price jump plus the lead time was enough to deter me from placing an order.

Happy Pi day everyone.

I keep refreshing the page expecting another price drop. They bumped the price up twice in a couple of hours, why can't they drop it twice in a few hours.

Looks like Bitman is getting some competition. No solid details yet, but here's the thread. I'll give them a try. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985400.0

Ha, me too. And in the email they explained that they still haven't shipped miners ordered in 2013.  Sign me up for a two year waiting list.

That was sarcastic for thoses who didn't get it.

It seems more of a "we may or may not produce this batch depending on sales" to me.
it is nice to see it priced better.

Those guys probably got them when bitmain was selling them for $315. $175+ profit plus whatever they mined while waiting to be resold. Wish I thought of it.

This is off topic but the Novec fluid doesn't get pumped anywhere. This video should explain it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ErbZtpL88

Back on topic. Bitmain, I'm ready to purchase more S5's. With the price of BTC creeping up I think it would be worthwhile.

It's been done large scale. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.0
And small scale.

I have wanted to do it myself and have come up with a few designs for tanks, but don't have the capital to get started. Good luck.

I sold mine for more than I paid for them. They mined for about 30 days. So was paid to mine for 30 days minus the cost of electricity. I did ROI on the 3 S5's that I had. I had them all overclocked. Two of them averaged 1.34 th/s and the other was 1.36 th/s all of them at 412. Running free air style cooling in north Florida. I still have all of the BTC that I mined and converted the funds from selling the S5's to BTC when the price was about $210. I sold the miners because I'm moving and won't have any room for them at the new place. 

Did you try to switch to a different port on the control board? I read somewhere that switching to a different port on the control board fix a dead board.

Here's mine. I tried 425 but got the same hash rate with about 10 times the hw errors. I took a screen shot on my phone. I love winter. For mining at least. My S5 in in the garage with an ambient temperature at 18.5 C The second fan is from a S1.

http://i.imgur.com/9Zz6Jyz.png?1