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The mini rigs have arrived!

Instead of wasting your time telling you how awesome these things are or how easy they were to setup, I'll just post some pics with captions.

Here the rigs are in their full packaging.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o9HPAkdqe6U/T-J2YPUIXUI/AAAAAAAAA6c/Dx5iq002a28/s800/IMG_0274.JPG

Here are the rigs off of the pallet but still in their protective bubble wrap.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-RbdMCUxiiSI/T-J2YWzBtaI/AAAAAAAAA6k/ItRUaz-xTug/s800/IMG_0276.JPG

A rig unwrapped sitting on the desk to show just how massive they are.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H80oo2CblB8/T-J2i_WGLUI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/MN-GVG2P6fU/s800/IMG_0280.JPG

Side view of the rig on the desk.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dxy6cXFtU9E/T-J2i_tmabI/AAAAAAAAA7M/TxthxdSv87w/s800/IMG_0281.JPG

All of the rigs racked. Had to rework the shelving since they are over 16 inches tall.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0SyXiLwQlfo/T-J2n8egoQI/AAAAAAAAA7k/v_v73PZQn4s/s800/IMG_0283.JPG

Another one in the rack.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7ThjDxwwxKc/T-J2vfdYTVI/AAAAAAAAA8E/zr4Ksa3_010/s800/IMG_0287.JPG

Everything is working with BFGminer and will be integrated into cgminer as luke-jr works out the kinks conman gets time to integrate it. If you have any questions, ask away!

Best,
gigavps

P.S. You can see the monitoring of the mini rigs at http://gigamining.com/mgpumon/

Wow, nice!

What is the total hashrate?

Holy hell, I really did think I was more likely to see a Unicorn driving a M1A1 through an orphanage on Christmas while being chased by Satan dressed as Mrs. Clause.

The total average hash rate in bfgminer is around 103.5Gh/s. BFL has OVER DELIVERED on the hash rate of these things!

Super Jelly! Lol. Nice setup buddy.

Awesome awesome. What's the noise level like? BFL said they were designed to be silent.

EDIT: also, power draw. Wanna see a killawatt on those pls.

Ha, ha, those little GPUs in between look awfully pathetic by comparison. It will be truly frightening when you trade these in 50% for ASICs!

The are fairly quite compared to a 4x5970 reference rig running at 80% fans. I probably wouldn't run them in my living room though.


I do not have something to measure power draw on 208v. I'm happy taking BFL's word on the power draw side of things.

Yeah OK, and even though the PSU will run on 120v I'm sure you don't want to lose even a second of mining time just for some measurements lol. ;D

I'm guessing they also will be better than BFL's numbers because they are on 208v.

Lock your door buddy!  ;D

But seriously, they are impressive.

Another question, do the front screens show any useful information, and if so, what? Also, what ports are on the back other than power and USB?

Very nice!

The front screens are currently only showing preset information. BFL has stated that this will be fixed in coming revisions of the case / chaining of the PCBs inside the case. We saw the same thing with the singles and as more come out, they will correct these relatively minor issues.

For me, I could care less about the screen as long as the thing is hashing away.

Wow, very nice.

im literally...

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21300000/Rainbow-Puke-D-random-21329583-500-382.jpg

Man, why is it that all the rich guys with mini-rigs never seem to own a good camera... :'(

Didn't have my camera with me. Just the iPhone....

I guess some pics are better then no pics.  :P

You got me. Something about this thread draws me in like a magnet lol.

It's because it's 100Gh!

I'm not quite sure if many of you have tried to run 100Gh of GPUs. It's pretty much a 10hr a day job.

These things are setup and go.

Its so pretty.............I can't imagine what shade of green I am right now. :D

You can order one now for 2300 BTC.  The first one sold for over 3000 BTC, so things are definitely getting cheaper in bitcoin :)

Glad you got them (finally). Really nice product.

Impressive indeed...  :o

Thank you for the pics, gigavps. Those things look amazing! I'm so jealous hahaha.  ;D

What are the HxWxD measurements on one of them?

NICE !

Nice design, lm sure there been some blood sweat and tears building these.

Connecting them through USB to a naked motherboard just looks plain wrong! Do you plan on getting some raspberry pis?

Congratulations gigavps! Are you going to trade them all in for ASICs?

I was about to say that.
100 gh/s or 2 th/s... I would know what to choose. :)

Congrats giga and thanks for the pics ! Awesome 8)

Speechless

hehe, if I am reading the trade-in program correctly; He currently has $60k worth of equipment. So he will need to buy $60k worth of new asic gear to get full trad ein value for his $60k gear. Which would put him at 8TH.

This looks shopped, I can tell from the pixels and I've seen quite a few shoops in my tiem.

So he now has an unfair advantage over other miners

HAHA. Aye, the shadows are going in odd directions as well. Also, irl that desk could not support the weight of a REAL mini-rig. ;p


Yeaaaaa.  *starts handing out pitchforks*

/me puts on his robe and wizard hat.

lulz.

If it were shopped, i wouldn't be worrying that one of them is down at the moment.....

This is par for the course with new technology though, so this is not totally unexpected. Probably just a power supply or some judo trick I need to learn with the MR.

How can you be worried that something that doesn't exists doesn't work?
Haven't you heard mem and galambo? Those things ain't real, dude!

Hey GIGAVPS

mark the one you took in service first - it will one day have an enormous resale value to the offical intergalactic museum of bitcoin history!

Congrats Gigavps. They look very sexy and I wish I had 1 or 2 of those right now :)

Nice :D

I think they should have integrated a controller in the rig so it would displau 25xxx mhash instead of 14 @ 1400mhash

I thought it was 18 * 1400MH/s?

Fairly sure it's 17 x whatever mhs the cards run at. (1400?)

EDIT: 17 x 1520mhs according to gigavps's 103 ghs across 4 rigs.

http://gigamining.com/mgpumon/

We looking at the same numbers? His 52GH/s rig has 36 miners (0-35), and his 26GH/s rig has 18 miners (0-17). Remember they start counting at 0, not 1. ;)

Now I want you to tear one open and take some pics :D

Hmm, dunno I was going off of old info from other threads so yeah it might be 18 each.

Congrats Giga ! I am jealous.

Those Rigs look awesome.

It probably is.  I was trying to remember from some picture I saw in a different thread.

How did you go off of a old thread if this is what you  said earlier?

You didnt count them right.

It is 18 units per MR (BFL had mentioned 17 before) - you can see that on the mpgumon page and confirmed with giga...

giga, if you end up replacing the PSU in the one that is down, please let us know which brand/model it uses...Very curious.  Also, have you had an opportunity to take measurements of the mini-rig's dimensions?

Thanks

How is it unfair?  It isn't like he found them in the street.  Do *you* want to write a check for them?

+1

There was an earlier picture that showed a Thermaltake box in the Mini-Rig "assemly line".  Assuming that is what they are using but unsure of the model...

Hopefully giga can confirm the issue when he has the time...

Giga paid for them in full back in February, taking a huge risk.  I think the advantage is well-deserved.

The PSU's are Thermaltake 1475w - Gold

BFL has pics on their site: http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/ (http://www.butterflylabs.com/production-update/)

I have to say, their mini rig looks like it has a lot of quality put into it.

Yeap we paid them full back then and everybody laughed at us :) , there is nothing unfair here

Looking great! *drool*
 :D

srsly jelly >:(

Giga, what do you plan to do about trade in?  I guess it's only $60,000 extra in about 6 months.

;)

Where's your location again?

 ::)

Yeah, for only 4TH.  ::)

We have our eyes on you giga!!  :o :o :o

I'm guessing if anyone would know more details about how the trade in program will actually work, he would be the one. Aka what would could you trade 4 MR in for, and how much extra would you have to spend?

You would trade 4 MR for 8  4 SC rigs + $60k.

EDIT: Sorry, coffee time.

As far as I know Giga bought four minirigs more. That means it's 16 SC rigs + $120k.

16TH which is more than current network hashrate. No wonder he reserved teraminig at glbse.

8TH... That's about 2/3 of the total network speed today!

Did I read correctly that the Mini Rigs Require a 208v circuit and not a 110v?

I'm sure that is just to be more efficient, not a requirement.

Trade up would be his 4 MR+$60k for 4 ASIC MR

All the details are in the GIGAMINING thread...

He cancelled the additional 4.

Good call. He was lucky that BFL revealed their trade program rules.

Well I can only guess that BFL is busy because I have sent them numerous emails and left a couple of voice mails to discuss buying a mini rig or two and I have not gotten a response back as of yet

Yes you're right sorry.

Par for the course - especially now as they have product to ship...

It's a strange consumer experience to tell a company that you have a pile of cash you want to send them and get no response.

Hahahaha

Agreed -we have been dealing with this for 6+ months now  ;D

It's take a few days for them to get back to me. I'm attributing it to the fact that they've probably been a little busy lately. ;)

Why do you want to order a MiniRig now that the new products are around the corner. Just wait a month or two.

Will see about that  ;D

That is what I want to discuss with them - preOrder, Leadtime, Tradein etc

If the new one ship in October then yes you are right. If it end up being later in 2013 well...

I seriously think it should come out in October, I am waiting for a miniRig, 6 weeks into the order :-). If i were in your shoes, I would wait until they start taking orders for the new product. It does not justify buying a MR now.

they have empty cases and renderings on their site.

there's no way in hell they will ship in october unless they already have the chips fabbed and are assembling things now.

realistically it'll be october for prototyping and a few more months for production at least. especially for someone as small scale as BFL is.

Not going to lie...that is some damn sexy hardware.

If anybody is nervous about the impending ASIC doom and wants to unload their mini-rig today - not pre-orders - please PM me.

Anyone wealthy enough to have a Mini-Rig will know your offer is not profitable ;D

What's causing you to need to spend that much time a day managing your gpu miners?

I generally only need to spend a few minutes a day checking up on my 32 GH/s of gpu's and fixing any issues that may randomly come up.

I sent the one mini rig back to BFL for a diagnosis and some more burn in testing. I'll not be opening one of these puppies up anytime soon.

Loose measurements are: 12w x 17h x 19d

overnight it?

yup

I would like to know this as well.

Also giga, how loud are these?  Can you put something on youtube?

Do NOT require 208v...

But like any modern PSU they can run on 110 to 240. 

How heavy are they? 10-20 pounds? Or more?

+1

Gigavps should know - he just shipped one of them back to BFL.

Nice rigs gigavps. Makes me feel a little better about BFL and maybe waiting for them to finally deliver. Though, I'm admittedly still miffed about their lag time (been 6 weeks already waiting).
Did you trade in your Singles or are you still using those?

Thanks for sharing.

||bit

You can see the red lights from his singles on the bottom shelf of the left rack in the 5th picture.  ;)

Faulty after 1 day ? not very impressive. Now what if the buyer is in Europe.

The buyer is fucked

BFL said they weigh 50 lbs.

I can post a video when I am back in town in July.


1 mini rig is 45lbs. They are monsters.


The singles are still running strong. They are the most maintenance free mining devices I have ever used.


Equipment breaks. What IS impressive is BFL's response and how they are handling the situation.

Yeah, doesn't inspire much confidence of their extensive "burn-in" testing...

Good to hear, but I expect it's only a matter of time before people pop up to troll about this.

One could argue though that the failure rate after burn-in is very low. 

So lets ask Giga:  would you rather BFL did longer burn-in on all of your units, delaying shipment.

OR send them all and have three in production and have them deal with the situation of a failed one like a rock-star?

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

It could have been jostled in shipping. The burn in may have went just fine.

The only reason I didn't order the mining rig was because of exactly what happened here. I am not saying its anyone's fault. Giga is down 25Gh with that machine being down. I ordered all singles just so that if individual singles break down I am not out such a large chunk of hashing power.

If you don't want to ship it back, you can take out the individual modules and run them ? will take a bit of DIY.

It's a bad PSU and doesn't appear to be the fault of shipping damage.  I think this one's on us.  We were eager to get these units out and should have burn tested a bit longer.  We've paid for the return frieght, will swap the PSU and point it at Gigga's credentials while we run it through a longer burn.

Cool of you guys to pay overnight freight for a 50 lb box. That had to be expensive.

If such a thing happened in the future, how simple is it to swap the PSU? Any more complicated than in a normal PC?

But like Giga, this is not something I would be opening/messing with on day one.

It can be done by the box owner.  The processor trays plug into the PCI-E connectors as do the fan walls & LCD power system.  Only the power trip switch is hard wired.

It can be quite a lot of work though and in Gigga's case, it was really our responsibility...   didn't want to put him through that.

In a worst case scenario, the trays can run without a case and just plug into PCIE connectors of a standard ATX PSU.  Their top fans will keep them cool if sitting in open air.

There are no throttle issues with the Mini Rig cards.  The processors exibit performance edge behavior by giving errors and not via throttling.  Overall, they're much more heat tolerant.

Thanks for the info - I have a spare PSU just in case...

Thanks BFL!

^^^ This is why I would send money to BFL if I had any :P

We just need more open communication like this and BFL being clear about what they can.   Because they are the "best in breed", its more like a partnership because we are all in it together from Oct going forward until something else comes along.  I am still moving forward in mining, the rules have changed but that happens.

Dalkore

GiggityVPS

No bounty this time, thanks for the pics though.

now there's a good idea. " All purchasers of X amount of dollars worth of mining equipment may send in their credentials to be used during burn in testing"

though i imagine that'd be a headache if the pool went down.

Yeah, I had proposed that idea:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77796.msg953731#msg953731

It didn't grow legs though...

Impressive?  Or is that just what they are SUPPOSED to do??  I don't see why giving them credit for something they should already doing is necessary.

Pretty sad that a 15 grand unit is broken, in one freaking day.  I would be livid.

Most people on this forum think BFL is the best thing ever lol

Things are getting pretty pathetic around here.

Congrats, Giga, nice setup by the way!

PCI-E? Don't you mean USB? The mini rig card pictures you posted earlier clearly show no PCI-E connector.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75764.msg906496#msg906496

I think he means PCIe solely for the power distribution. It seems they may use the screw terminals on each board to 'gather' all the power leads to the tray which then plugs into a 6pin PCIE header.
As for data they have the sata connecters per board that get distributed by that control board that was seen earlier.

It would be nice to see more detailed shots of the internals BFL, not just solely because of the neat engineering work involved.