Antminer X3 can be used for CryptoNight algorithm cryptocurrency mining, uncle mine heard that this machine can be used to mine more than one coin, and the income is not low, in order to help you verify whether the rumors are true, we got an X3, which can help you do a comprehensive evaluation, the specific performance will be revealed immediately!
Basic Product Data
| Name | Antminer X3 |
| Coins that can be mined | Monroe Classic XMC, Elifang ETN |
| Weight | 5.5kg |
| Size | 334mm*125mm*207mm |
| Rated hashrate | 220 kH/s |
| Rated power consumption | 500W |
| Official selling price | $620.00 |
Unpacking Photos
The outer box of X3 is no different from other series of mining machines of Ant, so I will not go into details, after unboxing, you can see the mining machine protected by pearl cotton board, and miners who have bought Ant miners should be familiar with it. Appearance and workmanship.
Next, let’s take a look at the true face of Antminer X3! This mining machine is still very different from other Ant series mining machines, the biggest difference is that it only has a front fan and no rear fan, so it seems to be very different from other mining machines.
As you can see from the back of the miner, the X3 does not have a rear fan, and you can see the details inside the miner.
In terms of computing power board, X3 miner also adopts three computing power board mining machine design, from the top of the mining machine, it can be seen that X3 has three computing power boards and a control board.
From the front of the miner, you can see a series of buttons of the miner, including IP address feedback button, network cable interface, reset button and status indicator and other configurations. Installation and debugging
The power supply for this test uses Ant Power APW3++, and the power supply can be bought on Bitmain’s official website, because X3 can mine two coins, so we choose two different mining pools to mine two different coins. We use X3 to mine XMC (Monroe Classic) in the Ant Mining Pool (antpool.com) and ETN (Elifang) in the Coin Mining Pool (poolin.com). The installation method refers to the official mining tutorial of Antminer, which is actually the same as the use of S9, but the mining service address is different.Noise and heat
The test site is a conference room with an area of about 30 square meters, the room temperature is 25 degrees, and the heat and noise test is carried out after the miner has been running for a period of time.
At 10cm from the miner, the noise of the miner was measured to be 64 decibels, but the noise from 1 meter away dropped to 60 decibels, and the noise at 10cm of the air outlet was 77 respectively, and the sound of closing the door was basically inaudible. Overall, the Antminer X3 has less noise than other miners, which may be because it has no rear fan, so the noise drops a lot.
After a period of stable operation, you can see that the temperature of the X3 computing power board is about 48 degrees in the background of the mining machine, and the temperature of the chip is about 56 degrees, which is lower than that of other mining machines. The front fan speed is 3900, this speed belongs to the normal range, it seems that the miner is running normally! Computing power and power consumption
Antminer X3 computing power curve when mining XMC (Antminer Pool) Antminer X3 computing power curve when mining ETN (Coin Printing Pool)
The official standard computing power of Antminer X3 is 220KH/S, and in the actual test, from the data in the background of the miner, the average actual computing power is about 234GH/s, which is 6% higher than the nominal value. The Antminer X3 official standard power consumption is 500W, and the power in the actual test is 493W, which is 1% lower than the nominal value. According to the actual test of computing power and power consumption, the power consumption per K of computing power is 2.1W/K.
The XMC price is about $1.4, according to the PPS mining income model of Ant Mining Pool, the income of one X3 24 hours a day is 1.92 XMC;
According to the PPS mining revenue model of the Coin Mining Pool, the income of one X3 24 hours a day is 1447 ETN;
Assessment summary
| Actual hash rate | 234KH/S | |
| Actual power | 493W | |
| Power consumption per hashrate | 2.1W／K | |
| Daily earnings | Mining XMC: $18/mining ETN: $44 | |
| Daily electricity cost | $1 | |
| Daily profit | Mining XMC: $19 Mining ETN: $42 |
In this evaluation, we tried to use the same machine to mine different coins, in general, the gap between the income of different currencies is quite large, in the short term, it must be that the income of mining ETN with X3 is high, and you can choose what coins to mine according to your needs.
The noise of the X3 miner is still quite small, the mine uncle feels that this mining machine can even be used at home, the heat of the mining machine is much better than other mining machines, it is highly recommended that you buy one to try!
