Swedish women are really, really hot. But beer is pretty expensive in the country, so it's not paradise.  Oh and something about KNC being pretty legit.  

If you are open to considering shares instead of an entire unit I put up some for auction yesterday:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232223.0

Works out to about 2.2 BTC per gigahash. These are shares in a Batch 3 Avalon.

Thanks ! Great detail and depth.

(The following has been shamelessly adapted from oaxaca's & bogart's older auction thread.)

Good day. Up next, for auction, is 15 shares of CoinHoarder's Batch 3 Avalon group buy.  This represents a little over 2.075% of the output of 7 Avalons, the four module, 85GH edition.

All told, these shares will deliver around 12 lovely gigahashes , hosted by Coinhoarder (this is 12.35 GH worth of shares, then minus power and hosting fee's of 2%,  should work out to around 12 GH of mining dividends.)

Group buy information:
Original Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157930.0
Group Forums: http://yourcoins.org/forums/index.php?forums/avalon-group-buy.2/         [I'll be putting these shares up for auction in the appropriate thread there, but waiting for a password to be reset.]

Each investor owns a percentage of each of the seven 4 Module ASICs that were ordered. Monthly dividends will be pad out to each investor according to their ownership percentage.
Dividends will be paid after electricity costs, any pool fee (yet to be determined), and the hosting fee are taken out.
Total BTC invested in the group buy: 722.7025 BTC
595 Gh total from all Seven Avalons.

The auction will last about 4 days +1 hrs from the time of this OP, and will end at 6:00 PM Saturday, Pacific Standard Time,  June 14th. 

The minimum amount of shares to bid on is -5- shares.  If there are multiple bids, some for groups of 5 shares, some for the entire batch of 15 shares, then I reserve the right to accept the bid for all 15 shares (I'd prefer to sell them together) over smaller segment bids, if it is higher.
The starting bid is 1.75 BTC per share.
The bidding increments are .01 BTC per share.
The minimum bid quantity is for 5 shares, than further in increments of 5 shares. (i.e accept bids on 5,10,or 15 shares).
A higher number of shares at a given price beats earlier, lower bids.
If escrow is desired, I have no objection. I rather not though and feel it isn't necessary as CoinHoarder and these shares are well -established and I'm well-documented as the owner. 
No PM bids will be accepted.  All bids must be in this thread. But any questions, feel free.
Technically speaking, I own 15.0005 shares, so will be giving this 0.0005 to whoever wins the auction, in accordance to the largest segment of shares purchased (5, 10 or 15).
Winning bidders have up to 24 hrs to transfer the funds over.

Please post your offers like these examples:   5 @ 1.8      or  15 @ 2.05   etc.

I have one 7950 pretty much always running on my PC at an intensity of 15 or 16 for about 500 k/hash, and can use the rest of the system fine. I turn it off if I game though, and turn down the intensity to 13 if I watch a movie .

BFL is a horribly run company IMHO and I would not recommend anyone order from them, as they have a astounding back order.

That being said, credit where credit is due,  the Jalapeno is a great product though, and they have somewhat surprised me that they sort of actually do seem to be finally shipping now, only 9 months late or what-not.  I can't argue that it is a great little product. 5 GH / 7GH for that power usage and form factor is pretty commendable.

I'd love to have a Jalapeno running on a Raspberry Pi like that other guy   But ya,  would not recommend anyone actually ordering one (due to the production difficulties), and the company seems often dishonest (in its handling of many situations, and near continuously saying it was only 1 or 2 weeks before shipping,  when in fact they must have known this was not the case, months ago.)

If you have already ordered back-when and have gotten your J--- then congrats to you. I am a bit bitter it's arrived before the Avalon new batches, I have to begrudgingly admit my surprise.

I'm fine with the lateness, but I'll be somewhat choked if the chips (not the samples, that's fine) get sent out before all the batch 1,2 & 3 are taken care of.  (I'm guessing Avalon does intend to do this).

I have the same problem on one of my rigs. My guess was that it was because I am using unpowered pcie riser as opposed to powered, and my mobo is putting out enough power.

It isn't the card (in my case). It works fine in other systems. But my 3 third card of the same make on my one rig, connected with a PCIE extender cable, only gets about 75% the performance (450 k/hash as opposed to 600 for the other 2) .  7950's & scrypt mining.

I've been a bit too busy to fully troubleshoot it. I think I'm going to save myself the headache and just swap some mobo's around (with spare slots) so I don't have to use any extender cables.

Good to finally hear an update. It'll put some fears to rest.

I can understand them being late. Being months late sucks, but guess that's just how it goes. My main solace is that pretty much every ASIC is late, besides the reliable ASICMiner, which bodes well for the investment potential still.

Are you using any pcie risers?

As far as I'm aware most ASIC miners use cgminer or bfgminer .

I'm also pretty sure that you can not use GUIminer for ASIC mining.

Ok thanks a lot guys.  Guess I was pretty close then.   So around 850W .   I'll now go answer 2 questions in the noob forum to pay you guys back...

Subject title pretty much says it.  Can anyone give me a ball park number on how much power is used by mining system with 3 7950's?  

I'm trying to run some cost estimates on my power.  I'm using a Gold rated psu, have a hard drive, low wattage core i5.

Anywhere in the ball park is good. I'm thinking somewhere around 900w to 1 Kw .  Does that seem about correct?  Thank you.

(No Kill-o-watt guy here).

Personally I think it's good time to buy coins.

OP's points are valid and make sense but I see things differently. The payment processors shut down is a set back, but not 'the end', by a long shot.  For example, currently I can buy coins with cash quite easily through a bank deposit method. A couple of hours and Bitcoins.  If I wanted to sell BTC for fiat, I could also withdraw to my bank account or sell OTC locally.

I sort of thing the American gov' resisting Bitcoin will help the currency in some ways. And it's next to impossible to stamp it out.

Not sure about this one, but maybe with increased difficulty of fiat/BTC exchange payment processors, perhaps it will cut down on the market speculation as well, making the price of BTC more stable, which will happen it gain traction as a currency.

Maybe the OP is just (understandably) tired of all after 2 years.  Like if you look at it another way, BTC has come a long way, and is in much better shape, than it was 2 years ago.

Someone just went on a pretty big buy spree just now picking up 25 shares or so.  

It looks like there is a good chance of almost every share going to be sold out in the future; looks good

How can people be upset that their may be a price drop?

Sort of like being upset it's raining. Kind of childish. Understandable but not really productive..

Maybe you bought it at too high of a price then if you are upset about a price drop. For anyone who bought at <2 BTC a share, of which there are many, than they aren't too shook up about a potential drop from 2.5 to 2.4 a share.

No. This ship has sailed.

It's conceivable that BFL will offer further products and better price-to-performance metrics after they've gone through the very long tasks of satisfying existing orders and be able to ship'em in a reasonable time frame...but as it is now, they are really far behind in production, and there are many better investments for your money.

Ya give'em a break, perhaps .  2 days isn't so bad. They are probably crazy busy on top of receiving a crazy amount of emails everyday on top of (probably) being more guys who like working on hardware instead of answering-email types. 

Good idea. But you can't propose it in this manner and expect to reach more than.... 5% of folks (at the absolute most) buying & selling if this thread was a wild success.

Because your new OP, and the Butterfly Labs ads are always present, conveniently, on the most popular bitcoin mining calculator webpage, I just want to let you know, in case you haven't heard it yet, that any order from BFL will highly likely not be delivered in 2 months like the website makes it out to be.