Inno has a MUCH better reputation than Bitmain for reliability AND FIXING ISSUES.

 I just wish they hadn't priced the A5 way too high for most folks and IMO a little TOO high to be competative - they should have priced it in the $6K-$7K range.


 Going to be interesting to see where D3 and A5 pricing get to 6 months from now.

 They'll still have a market for their cube miners, due to the low entry price and efficiency allowing them to be profitable for some time yet, AND they do mine those other algos with no other ASIC competition.

 I suspect they are going to have to drop pricing a TON on the Giant, and drop the Cube price quite a bit though, once the D3 and A5 start actually shipping.



 By the time the D3 starts shipping, *ASSUMING* that DASH price doesn't drop in the meantime, they're going to be faceing a higher diff that's going to skyrocket fast.
 I don't see the D3 achieving ROI in 10 days - especially if the A5 ships "on time".

 They've got the same MOQ3 and $9999 price listed on their website now.

 OUCH.

One scam seller doesn't make all resellers scams - though scammer reseller sites ARE pretty common in the cryptocoin space.

 Prior to the D3 and A5, that was quite efficient for X11 mining.
 It's also a lot lower draw than any of the other manyGhs miners.


 Baikal really needs to work on their customer interface.
 Trying to order from them is a big enough nightmare that I eventually gave up on it.


 Bailkal was NOT the first folks to create an ASIC for X11 - they were third, behind Pinidea and Ibelink.

 They WERE the first for the non-X11 algos that their miners support though - and that MIGHT keep them alive 'till they can come up with a competative miner to the D3 or A5.

It's one mining farm that didn't bother setting up worker names in their miners.

First off, you won't HAVE the miner for months unless you buy a used one from someone, or a "July Batch" from a reseller.

Second off, even if you have it in hand by end of September, that still only leaves you about 4.5 months of mining time out of your "6 months" - AND difficulty is going to climb quite a bit as folks finish getting their July batch miners online and then again when folks get the September batch miners and get THOSE online.

 Latency shouldn't be a significant factor, my A2 Scrypt mining farm was only seeing about 1% higher stales when I was running it via a SAT connection at 650-750 ms lag.



 On the plus side for you right now - the only other folks shipping Scrypt miners is Innosilicon with the A4, and those are quite a bit lower efficiency and less than 60% of the hashrate of the L3+ so they seem to be selling slower and not affecting total hashrate nearly as much - and THOSE are also sold out 'till September.

 M60 isn't Pascal, it's Maxwell.

 It has 2 GPU chips on it, GM204 like the GTX 980 or 980ti.

 2Mh/s says you're getting a VERY small piece of the card, or something is badly misconfigured.

 Of those that are in the field RIGHT NOW, probably the Bitmain L3+ on Scrypt - but they're sold out MONTHS ahead, I think the next batch to ship is schedualed for September and it's ALREADY sold out (they're currently shipping their "July" batch that was sold out months ago).

 Of those that have been ANNOUNCED but are not yet shipping, presuming they meet specs fairly closely and actually show up when they are supposed to, the Innosilicon A5 (30 Gh/s+ X11) looks likely to become the most profitable at least for a short while with the Bitmain D3 (15 Gh/s X11) probably ending up as #2, but I suspect the D3 will cost a fair bit less than the Innosilicon A5 (D3 price has been announced as $2699 but is not available for preorder right at the moment, A5 price has not been announced yet).

(EDIT) A5 price is $9999 - IMO this gives the D3 a pretty good chance of achieving 100% ROI well before an A5 unit can, but if the A5 meets specs it MIGHT pay off more in the long run due to higher efficiency.

 Both of those are not shipping for months, and with the new IBelink also in the mix, X11 profitability is going to get HAMMERED once any of these new BIG units starts shipping.

 I suspect the Baikal miners will stay profitable for quite a while, as they're semi-close on efficiency to what the D3 announced and not WAY far behind the A5, but it's going to come down to how much new hashrate gets added and how fast and soon - and what DASH price is going to do in the meantime.

 Keep in mind that most Scrypt ASIC are still profitable as Bitmain hasn't been able to ship enough L3+ units to keep up on hashrate vs Litecoin price rise over the last 3+ months - this MIGHT happen with X11/DASH as well for a while.

 2 molex to a *6* pin PIC-E I would trust, 2 to an 8-pin I would not.

 *3* molex to an 8-pin PCI-E would be OK with a GPU.

Just upgrade to the current version.

2.0 = QuintLeo

 Bit less than 16 inches, which is longer than anything recent out of Bitmain and I THINK is a little longer than the A4, but shorter than any of the A2 varients I'm aware of were.

 Nice to see they added a "pre-order" link to the US site, BUT WHERE IS THE PRICE??

 Any ASIC can mine any coin that uses the algo the ASIC is designed for, just have to point the machine at an appropriate pool or set it up with the right wallet for solo mining.

 Too early to tell since they haven't released any gaming-specific cards OR had time to optimise the drivers much for gaming yet.

 Not looking likely that they are going to dethrone the GTX 1080ti at this point, though, unless they perform REAL WELL under DirectX 12.

 Given the design, it should be very close to the same noise level as the L3+ and pretty close to the S9/T9/S7 on noise.

 It's NOT a "designed to be quiet" design like the R4.

 Late NEXT year at the earliest, by which point it probably won't matter.

 DAG file is still less than *3* GB at this point, didn't cross the 2GB threshold 'till a few months ago.

 Probably longer, GTX 980 and 980ti cards are STILL pulling in a pretty good percentage of their original new pricing.

 The mining side is running fine right now, but it kinda looks like Haitch might be transitioning to a new software version or is trying to get cloudflare up for DDOS protection as the site itself has been down for a while today and is giving an odd redirect.

 D3 is quite a bit better on efficiency vs the Baikal, which is 28nm.
 It's possible the D3 is a highly optimized 28nm design and the Baikal NOT highly optimised, but no way to tell for sure right now.

 I do have to wonder how long Innosilicon has been working on the A5 though - perhaps they were planning to release it late this year with no pre-announcement (like the A1 and even more the A2) but decided they needed to reply when Bitmain came out of nowhere with the D3?


 I think the main problem with the A4 was that Innosillicon was announcing CHIP level specs originally based on early tape-out, and found out the hard way that process variation on the 14/16 nm node is a lot worse than on previous nodes (Bitmain had the same issue on the chips for the S9), leading them to be way too optimistic about what a miner would be able to produce - or the cost was too high and they had to cut chips and run them at a higher LESS EFFICIENT voltage to keep the price down to something viable for a miner.