Nice that was awesome. Next year, you should do the same but just make it impossible to paste the address in.

Josh: "So we've officially shipped on March 31st, 2013.  So this is not an April Fools joke."

**This is a speculation post, NOT a scam accusation post. Shit, even the word scam is way overused and misused in this forum.**

I can also write a very professional post like that. The question is:
Did anyone contact him representing potential system integrators? No one has said anything one way or the other. So either no one has or there is some kind of NDA on even mentioning you talked to him? What's really going on here?

Posting on the Bitcoin forum is odd for a company looking for systems integrators for their chips. But not entirely unlikely. I see 3 possibilities:

1. Everything is as helveticoin says. This would be very interesting and certainly change things regarding miners who have pre-purchased ASICs from other companies. Even with them onboard, I expect to be able to make 0.1BTC/day with a 60GH/s unit by the end of the year. They claim a lot of PH/s but I can't see there being enough orders for them in the volume they can produce right off the bat. I do expect them to start a slow network increase past the initial spike. But they seem to be hoping to get the chips off their hands quickly so... (speculation time)
What I get from the first post is that this is a group of people who abused their control over the 28nm wafers from GF while working at ST Microelectronics to design and produce bitcoin ASICs. They have now left the company and brought the "stolen" chips with them. They are now forming a new one: A company who wants to sell the chips they got while working there to people who will do the systems integration and resale. In other words, they want to get rid of the chips relatively quickly and make money on it. I think they will try to get rid of their stock and produce nothing past that.

2. Someone was bored and can actually speak English properly and be professional.

3. This is a well thought out and long term scam that will start with initial rumours mainly brought on by this thread, further developments and lead to multiple fully-believable companies selling fake ASICs by June. I guess it is a good idea because they can claim they don't need pre-orders here but when it comes down to it, they can have the other fake reseller companies be the ones to ask for preorders.

Questions:

MLM is advertised as a cost-saving measure so why is helveticoin claiming this will increase their costs?
MLM saves mask costs ("mask" is done already) but increases chip costs.

Why did they come to bitcointalk?

Has anyone actually discussed being a systems integrator with them from this forum?

Has anyone sent any "serious inquiries" by email as helveticoin asked and received a response?

</long post with lots of speculation, questions and skepticism>

So now we wait until May.

In my experience, those are 3 very different things. What exactly are you looking for?

1. You picked an FM2 CPU and an AM3+ motherboard. Different socket. Doesn't fit. I recommend keeping the CPU and changing the motherboard.

2. You picked 4 GPUs but the motherboard only has 2 pcie slots. Unless you plan on using extenders?
whoops didn't see this:
No, you need 4. It will be a total mess otherwise.

3. Why the 7950 and not the 7970?

4. Why do you need a monitor? Especially since you are using linux. Use SSH.

5. I don't think the system will work without RAM

6. You are going to have a real fun time with that IDE hard drive. Also, it's probably never a good idea to buy a used hard drive.

7. You probably shouldn't try to deal with risers anyway. Some motherboards have issues with them. Get a motherboard with 3xPCIe 16x/8x with enough space for 3 2-slot cards.

8. Some might disagree but for a mining rig, I would only use the best PSUs for reliability. Seasonic and Corsair (who's high end is manufactured by seasonic)

9. FYI, just noticed that The PSU you picked only supports up to 3 video cards anyway (3x6pin and 3x6+2pin). You can't use it with the current 4 card setup.

Yeah. The one on the bitcoin.org website.

also use
edit: that is a capital eye, not an ell
Since your 5770 isn't your display device, this should be fine.

Also, 185 is normal on stock. My stock 5770 got 188 normally with dynamic mode.

My guess is November.

ask kano

What? I'm cpu mining with pooler cpu miner (--algo sha256d) on p2pool and getting 4MH/s on a SINGLE CORE on my x6 1090t.

What he said.

I think the rest of you should consider looking at what program and version each of these people are using on the hardware comparison list at the linked wiki. You will note that certain programs appear to have never been updated while others are using older versions. Modern versions of still-updated CPU miners perform as I have described above. Or am I missing something here?

Gator-hex, thank you for saving me some typing.

Listen to Gator-hex.

Mind if I repost this as a quote in that thread?

It would be hilarious if somehow Bitcoin crashed down to $20 on the first, then recovered the day after.

1 billion has been hit. If it will stay there is still questionable. As of writing, it has gone back down to just barely below 1 billion USD.

Be the first to post when 1BTC = 100USD at mtgox.

Perfect. Exactly this.

There was also a poster a while back who asked a similar question about all the desktop computers at his company as he apparently had Admin access. He was stupid enough to use the same username everywhere and was easily found on google for his real identity, matching his job that he described here. He was fired.

So if "get in trouble" means you will be kicked out of your courses, this is obviously not worth it.

Common info:
-->No one knows.
-->Gavin was the last person to have contact with him.
-->It is really obvious he is not japanese
-->Other people can tell you more about his communication during the inception of Bitcoin.
-->Crypto mailing list link: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=cryptography@metzdowd.com&q=from:%22Satoshi+Nakamoto%22
-->Go read his whitepaper: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
-->So can the bitcoin wiki...

Are you trolling?

2013/04/28     100027610    N     0     7    0     0     -     -

Yes, the username is a dash because it's all people I know. Group order.

Also, interestingly, one order was tried and the order number was 100027607 but it was immediately cancelled and stuff was re-added. The new order number was then 100027610
So, we can either conclude that they are getting 3 orders every 15 minutes, or we can conclude that the numbers do not increment by 1?
Either way, you might as well add this to the list too:

2013/04/28     100027607    N     0     0    0     0     -     *cancelled order*

Did I misread? I thought he said that that rate was between 4 systems. 4x 12GPUs = 48GPUs. My estimates before he posted his rates were based on them all being 7970s. His new rate is possible with them all being this: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131483&Tpk=7990&IsVirtualParent=1

Or similar by another brand. Considering the official 7990 has not been released and the limited quantities of custom designs from other vendors, it is incredible that he was able to get 48 of them.

Also insane that they aren't overheating all to crap, never mind even fitting due to the coolers. What's your solution for that?

I personally think it is a mistake to dedicate the unit to tasks other than mining. You will lose efficiency and increase the chances of downtime.

Also, you seem to have mistaken my reason for choosing the APU in my recommended setup: It was because I believed the extra $17 to be worth the extra MH/s the GPU in the APU would give.

Good. Because you obviously don't know what an ASIC is. You know what virtualizing an ASIC means? It means buying an FPGA.