He was running the card 100% load 24/7, how does that warrant an RMA? No card that it used for bitcoin mining should be entitled for a "free" replacement. How many lies will you tell them to get a new free card?
Did they say you could not use it for that? Fact AMD encourage you to use it for such by providing OpenCL. If anyone gives you any RMA trouble mention it's a fire hazard and maybe you should send it to a safty regulator so they can issue a product recall. They'll soon send you another one to get the evidence out of your hands.  |
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Does anybody know why? Is it a new policy or is it a technical issue? Is 50btc aware of the problem?
Yes they are aware, it seems to be a new policy, I noticed they changed it to "weekly" on their web page now. I eventually got paid on a Friday (yesterday, May 03). |
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Considering they have a working chip and the amount of orders they have been bringing in before they even had a working product, they would have no problem finding additional VC funding at this point. A start up project being literally sold out before you even have a prototype is almost unheard of.
Had the chip on the other hand been a bust and needed a complete redesign then this discussion would have been a lot more interesting. The only thing atm that could be a bit worrisome is the actual cost of making each pre-order unit, this is more about how fast they can make back the initial RnD costs though.
Uhhhhh... Is this not what happened? They have 5000 chips that are not at power spec, and have to wait to get more from the foundry. I'm pretty sure they're switching from 65n to 110.. Avalon is 110nm BFL was always been working on 65nm This is the second time they've produced the ASICs, they already rejected the first batch because the ran too hot and then had them repackaged. The old ASIC had a plastic package, the new one has a copper package to improve thermal conductivity. We're now waiting for the second edition of the motherboard, the original one didn't have strong enough power regulators, to handle the chips unexpected power requirements. The old motherboard are still going to be used to produce the first batch of Bitforce 5's though. It is worrying how hard they are advertising for new customers, the doubling of prices, the high order number 60k, and how few Bitforce 5's shipped from 6 wafers. It looks like a company that needs more cash. |
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What about automatic earnings for not registered users!? I'm almost at 0,05 and no payment yet arrived, when limit is 0,01
Automatic payments for unregistered users are processed weekly. I CAN CONFIRM THIS POOL HAS STOPPED PAYING OUT DAILY! I'm using "no registration" expecting payouts over 0.01 daily, my confirmed reward is 10x higher at 0.1 and nothing is sent to the wallet! Switched to BitMinter until I see payments start coming through. Not sure I like the idea of time delayed payments, it all went horribly wrong when that happened on another pool, pool owner can run arbitrage scam (selling your BTC stock forward) creaming off the profit while BTC rises in price, until the price goes down, then miners get left out of pocket! My gain, your loss. |
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It needs to say Bitcoin FPGA, if it don't it's just for an electronics project. |
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The 7850 are nice cards, I use them too, but I can have 2x 5830's for the same money which is an extra 220MH/s (300MH/s vs. 520MH/s). *
*no volt overclocks.
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If you just did a normal delete of wallet.dat it should be recoverable from the trash bin, right click, and recover item.
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They changed their terms of sale, used to say "2 months", now it says "2 months or more" BFL time is half of real time so probably means 4 months at least. |
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Does that picture show 70 hardware errors in 1hr5min? (roughly 1 per minute)
Makes me wonder how many good chips they got from the 6 wafers?
But thinking about it though, it makes sense to put the crap ones in the lowest model.
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AMD/Ati, thousands of stream processors, a large cooler, and many fans.
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You can mine with different cards, they don't need crossfire to mine!
You can game on one card while the other one is mining.
You only need cards of the same family if you intend to game in crossfire mode.
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my experience of Eligius was that I got lured by the promise of 0% fees, only to get paid half what I was owed and it was paid months late
Link to your stats? My stats are probably long gone, but if you're looking for proof just read the Eligius pool thread on this forum, it's in there somewhere, loads of us were moaning about not being paid. Oh and I almost forget, even though they said they weren't merge mining, they were in fact merge mining namecoins and keeping them all for themselves! |
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Re: Bitminter vs. Eligius? Bitminter, my experience of Eligius was that I got lured in, as a newbie, by the promise of 0% fees, only to get paid half what I was owed and it was paid months late (although they claim Luke_Jr was having problems programming a payment system, it looked more like a payment scam to me) They claim to have a new payment system now, but once bitten twice shy, and all that... https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools |
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-f number is the number of frames you want to reserve for the operating system and other tasks I believe.
I'm not sure how to use the backup pool setting, but I just open two GUIMiners on the same card one of them will sit there at 0MH/s until the other one fails.
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should change thread title to Bitforce 5 as the Jalapeno plant burned to the ground.
Everyone that I know has acknowledged that BFL has shipped 6 or 8 Jalapenos.
BFL hasn't shipped any Jalapenos. Jalapenos were flat USB-powered silent mining devices. +1 No Jalapeños shipped to anyone! These are called 5Gh Bitcoin Miners or BitForce 5.  |
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LOL, wut? They switched it on, didn't even mine with it, and it burns hot? |
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Peanuts, Davincij15 has BTC3000 on pre-order. BTC3000 x $130 = could have been $450,000 right now. www.youtube.com/user/davincij15Taking money in one currency and refunding in a devalued one to gain a free business loan/profit, is known as an arbitrage scam. |
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You would be easily found out and destroy your reputation. A user just has to slap WireShark or some other packet sniffer on their network to see what it's doing. |
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Nice. Long screws.
LOL, wondered what you were going on about, then saw the picture. Yeah 7 month pre-orders get the long screws. |
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