I did. I requested they hold it for pickup at 5pm - "we cant do that until after a first delivery attempt"
I called at 10pm after the first attempt shows as being at 9:45PM (I was home, no notice or buzzer attempt) - "you had to call earlier, it will go out tomorrow for a 2nd attempt. we will have the dispatch center call you before 10am"
By 11:30 am today, no callback. so i called them - "oh, well the driver today is sick so its a replacement, we cant do anything to make sure they deliver before 3pm"

I am going away for the weekend, so basically I have been shafted for 4 days (thursday afternoon - monday afternoon) of potential mining time.

TO SUSHI/BITMAIN : This is unacceptable to me. Ive never had issues with FedEX, Purolator, or canada Post. BUT for the third time, UPS has not come to my building/apartment and has been a nightmare to deal with. Please consider establishing other shipping options such as DHL if possible. i would gladly pay $50 more to avoid this incompetency. The time wasted contacting UPS and the mining proceeds lost to these issues far outweighs any cheaper prices they have vs. DHL/Fedex/etc

GODDAM IT.

This is the THIRD time UPS has shafted me (every antminer ive ordered). Just like the last 2 times, I was home all day for the package and left a note in the lobby with a buzzer code and instructions to come to the 4th floor.

Just like before, its past 7pm (its actually 9:45PM today) before the tracking status changes from 'on truck for delivery' to 'first attempt made'. Its too late to schedule a will-call with UPS.

What can I do about this? Its obviously not Bitmain's fault, but im seriously pissed off that once again the UPS delivery truck decided to skip me and mark me as 'attempt made' when no such thing took place. UPS call center of course gives less than half of a f**k.

I would be interested in 20 chips

I beleive that was the default set into the reset feature.

why do all the reading come as a multiple of 512? (512,1024,1536,2048,2560)

looks great! I notice that between the 2nd(?) gen boards (first with the red/black terminals) and this, capacitors were added on pads C608/C609 in the image. Im just curious what these are for- related to the added PCI-e connector or not fully implemented at the time for some other form of current control?

I was having 'semaphore timeout' errors with win32diskimager in my Win7 64bit installation with 2 different (wrecked by the bitfury) SD cards and neither would format with SD CARD FORMATTER 4.0.

I loaded up my secondary Win7 32bit OS on the laptop (a Thinkpad T510) and was able to format and then image 1 SDS card. However, the second card would freeze up the formatting program around 90-100% and I got the same 'semaphore timeout' from Win32diskimager. I imagine this SD may be corrupt or damaged

use ONLY stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334

your pools are set up wrong - leave out the "stratum+tcp://" and try again. Thats why the errors show it cycling pools and sounding the 'not connected' alarm

would you entertain a (local?) trade:

MY 1oz Silver w/ gold accents 1BTC 2013 coin (only 700 made) for YOUR 2x 0.5BTC silvers with the 2nd gen hologram.

I am located in downtown Toronto, just west of Lansdowne. Shipping (Xpresspost) is fine too.

alternatively, I would entertain 1 of the 0.5BTC silvers and 1 of the 0.5BTC brass

the last few times i was charged roughly $44.80 CAD (+/- 10%, i dont have the actual receipt). I elected to avoid the $1900 price stamp this time, because thats enough tax to ensure the miner will have problems breaking even

also, UPS often adds some bu**s*it trivial charges for $15 or so

whats the 12V rail amperage(s) for the PSU?

I know that Im able to use a Corsair CX600M (553W on 12V) for a 400MHz antminer and a Raidmax RX-730SS (2x24A rails) to power a second antminer, with enough power left on a rail to add ~60W for some bitfury equipment

My 3rd antminer is expected today, and I just picked up a BEAUTIFUL ULTRA X3 800W *fully* modular PSU for only $40 BNIB. - 4 dedicated PCI-E connector ports on the PSU and even the mobo cable is modular, so i just have a small wire crimped to the back of the PSU for the PS_ON signal and 2 pci-e lines ready to go. When the time comes for antminer 4 or to tune back down to 350, I might be able to run 2 ants on it

stick a little adhesive-backed heatsink to the U1. you can get them on ebay for pretty cheap, i just got some like this that you could fit 3 or 4 on a U1:

mid-feb? by that time $5/GH will be the going rate for machines, and these chips are only capable of ~2.5GH.

I can offer 1.1BTC for an avalon and 0.75BTC for an avalon mini if its in ontario.

(ps: im not depositing to an address, I would like tot arrange escrow)

i would love to hear what is the difference between a 'fixed-price auction' and posting in the for sale section?

AFAIC, if you post in the auction section with a timeframe, you expect to sell to the highest bidder

you can likely increase the frequency by 50MHz without touching the voltage. but to push beyond 275MHz you will need to increase voltage or start seeing some errors and rejects start to submit.

for reference, the antminer systems are 1.1V for operation between 350-400MHz

I beleive they now include a 2" PCI connector lead thats screwed in for you now so that cables need not be butchered

irony? At 2.5BTC each they are still available. I could go lower to 2.35 BTC for fellow Canadians (shipping included in both prices)

whut? 

I just receive my 2 goldalloy coins yesterday and they look great (1 is a little looser in the airtite and rattles, but its not much of an issue). I ordered the privatekey style (rather than 2FA) and am/was expecting a full privatekey under the hologram, like with a casascius.

can you please clarify what is under my hologram? If its just the firstbits like shown above