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Title: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: Leprechaun93 on March 31, 2013, 01:10:36 AM All my computers have bad mhash/s rates, so I was thinking about getting an asic miner. But I was wondering if they're shipping yet or still in pre order stages. Has anyone got one? I thinking of ordering the one below.
https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/4-5gh-bitcoin-miner.html Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: kicker049 on March 31, 2013, 01:14:48 AM Last update: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1506-update-28-march-2013-a.html
Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: Gator-hex on March 31, 2013, 01:17:08 AM Butterfly labs has big problems
this is their engineering video posted on Youtube yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4bgho5JSI It looks a loooong way from being a shippable product. Avalon are shipping but are asking crazy money 88 to 101 BTC, and they only take payment in BTC! Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: Leprechaun93 on March 31, 2013, 01:21:43 AM Interesting, from the first post it almost seems that they are a few weeks from being shippable. But if not, what would be my best option right now to increase my hash rate?
Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: Gator-hex on March 31, 2013, 01:23:58 AM Quote it almost seems that they are a few weeks from being shippable. They've been a few weeks from shipping since October 2012! The video shows they don't even have an ASIC capable of mining yet. They're talking about maybe shipping 30Gh/s Little Single units running at 2-3x power design. Every other product will be so far outside it's power spec it'll need a complete redesign! The mini Rig would blow the fuses on your house power box, there's no way the Jalapeņo will run on a USB power brick, the 60Gh/s Single will be so hot with 8 chips close together that it'll melt itself. Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: Leprechaun93 on March 31, 2013, 01:26:00 AM Good point, i'll have to find a better option for now or stay at 22MH/s :-\
Title: Re: Are ASIC's shipping? Post by: b1ackha7 on March 31, 2013, 03:34:34 AM Time to start looking for some refurb video cards, or maybe think about litecoin until you can get a ASIC.
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