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From there Facebook page, here:
https://www.facebook.com/ButterflyLabs

They have 3 weeks left to demonstrate a working product and start shipping.

Let's hope that happens!

i wonder if they will ship the water block later or if that will delay production

Both cooling devices look to be quite compatible with their preliminary Single SC layout  ;)

http://codinginmysleep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BitForce_SC_Front.png

It's a scam. Water cooling doesn't exist. You guys are so gullible.

I find it interesting that BFL states that these ASICs are very heat tolerant, which to me means they run pretty cool, yet they go and develop a waterblock for it.

It could mean a couple of things: like they missed their thermal envelope, they will use it in the SC mini-rig to reduce fan numbers and noise (plausible), or maybe just for the cool factor.

I for one am very curious as I am a watercooling junkie.  :)

I can totally tell it's photoshopped... from the pixels.

Seriously though. I wonder how long it takes to render that plastic looking shiny thing with my gpu based mining rig.

I think it's not a stretch to have the minirig SC be watercooled. 1500W is a lot of heat to dissipate.

That is basically what this blog post is hinting at: http://codinginmysleep.com/more-bfl-product-renders/ (http://codinginmysleep.com/more-bfl-product-renders/)

The water blocks are most likely for the larger rigs for density. It would be nice to have for the single though since my PC has plenty of radiator for another heat source.

photoshop? you sure? you're wrong, projects be designed in CAD​​, as I guess. :)


3 weeks with shipping :)

That also didn't make sense to me.

Why cool something like that if it runs very cool and hardly consumes any electricity?

Is it for overclocking the chip or are there hidden features (deactivated sub-cores) hidden inside each die?

If this is a real snapshot of the BFL ASIC miner development progress, we will not see BFL ASICs in october nor in november. :-\

it's not hard to guess. Still must be time for product testing phase before mass production. January, February, March? we'll see. it's better late than never

You put 25 of those boards spaced 1" apart in a box, that's gonna be tough to cool with air.

Totally agree, it has to be for the minirig.

So rather than a MR having 25 SC Single boards to make 1.5TH/s, I wonder if they've OC'd and WC'd 15 boards to 100GH/s each.

I don't see why you can't, they did it with the FPGA mini-rig with 18 boards. It should be possible to do again if the thermals are similar.

If the ASIC vendors are right with their performance estimations, beeing late is only slightly better than deliver never. The early bird catches the worm.

Only if you're interested in a 10-day break-even point.

Higher-resolution images with fewer compression artifacts here:

http://codinginmysleep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Single-Heatsink.png
http://codinginmysleep.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/WaterBlock.jpg

http://codinginmysleep.com/more-bfl-product-renders/

The fan looks bigger and I dig the green lights.

I doubt those green things are lights. They look like heatsink mounts to me.

If my heatsink isn't attached by radioactive rods, I'm returning the damn thing.

It doesn't have to be radioactive. It could just be an inanimate carbon rod.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjna_3fLzDdc_FhiY35HO53ObKQRBix1nll7uG6NMRI-mQJmVl

it's  kryptonite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite) , makes that SuperASIC can't escape ;)

Obviously those are Phlebotinum (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppliedPhlebotinum)

 ;D

This is why ASIC is so fast;)

The main render looks to have been done in solidworks - doing it from scratch would probably take me a full day - if the fan model and heatsink model were already available it'd take about half an hour.

They sure do bear quite a resemblance to the tritium/phosphorous keychain glow-things.

Too bad those tend to run into import/export restrictions being radioactive and all.  They sure would look cool though.

wow for real? I have 3 HD 7970s... would it take 1/3rd the time?

I think you two are talking cross purposes here!

To render that object probably takes a few seconds, if that. It's not complicated at all.

Ah, we've misunderstood each other  :D
I meant to create the model in CAD (solidworks) and then render it.
If you already had the model there and just wanted to render it you're talking minutes at the very most  :D

Since when is water cooling needed to dissipate 60 watts? Seems like a bad business concept, especially with lifetime warranties.

Having a water-block as an option is nice. Maybe we'll see some other accessories / product lines develop here. I'm imagining rack mounted sc rigs with the noise and heat moving via fluid into sound proof cooling closet. But ya - that's just me.

Just to dispel any uncertainty, this photo is actually of the SC Single, "I don't know why they don't tell us what they are posting. That IS the Single SC heatsink. So if you ordered a Single SC you will have that.--Jody".

Since you put 25 of them in a small box.

How well a fan cools down anything will depend on the ambient air temperature, if the ambient air gets hot, fan cooling becomes almost useless.

Also it's not about watts but amps!

i.e. 60watts 1.2v chip will be cooler then 40watts 2.0v chip

What? Neither of those statements are correct.

Physics FAIL.

Is that a custom fan to match the HS? Not replaceable.

Really I presume it's just a mock-up and the fan won't be integrated like that. It would be more expensive to do it like that unless you get a good bulk HSF deal.

Lets hope it isn't a solid piece.

BFL seems to have failed at the whole 'airflow design' thing... again... Top mounted fans that blow up or down are bad. you want are horizontal to the board, not vertical. But hey, at least there will be a waterblock option which more than makes up for bad airflow.

So I'm guessing the Jalapeno is passively cooled?

That's the initial comments, with this power consumed, doesn't need fan.

Regards

Why would something that's supposed to warm coffee need a fan? ;)

Nice !  ;D

To better warm it, do you know bread oven with a fan inside? Here BFL applies the same principle </ironic>

Regards

Oh, so you put your coffee inside the jalapeños?
Do you pour it in?

I'll go one step ahead, I'll do my coffee-cooling system. I just have to open a faucet to fill my cup.

Depending on how hot it gets, we could retrofit some easy-bake ovens.

Now that would be fun to use :)

I guess we can put them on their side...

Water block!  That's great!  Perhaps I should buy one after all for my central heating system!

Anyone know what water temperature it will tolerate while still working full speed?  Or chip temperature?

Just to drop in a newer screen.

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/1497/publicconceptclockblock.jpg

Of course this is most prominent for the rig ( better thermal transport per volume)
but also people who prefer silent operation or want to try some overclocking might be interested.

Expected cooling temperatures will be given afther chip perfromances have been completly verified.

I read cockblock....  :-[

you're right :)
http://is100.imagesocket.com/images/2012/10/13/2533880-ltx5.jpg

 ;D lol, nice p'shop

I read cockblock too.

Ain't changin' it. Cockblock forever now.

yea! if BFL will not change this designation, I'll buy it  ;)

Here's the new BFL95 - the "Little Single" heat sink!

http://xtreview.com/images/ZEROtherm%20coolers/ZEROtherm%20BTF95%20Fanless%2004.jpg

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