I have one of these 800GH miners coming hopefully. Paid 27th.

Seeing from those pictures miner has 2x 8pin CPU connectors rather than 8pin PCI-Express connectors. Need to find cables for that. You can only get 1x 8-pins from single ATX-psu.
Adaptors from 6/8pins PCI-e connectors to 8pin CPU connectors would be sweet.

6/8pin PCI-e connectors can be stuffed to 8pin CPU connectors if you put it wrong way for + - to match. I think.

I can already see all the newbies failing with those. Lets prepare to tell them we told you so.

Price meets the demand. Bitmain successfully fullfilled group buy and sold hundreds of S2 (can see from BTC wallet movement)
They are selling all they can produce. Keeping their normal healty-test-mining OP going.

Opening kit sales is awesome indeed. Good stuff for us DIY miners who have plenty of overstock PSU and are willing to build our miners.
But you are right about pricing, not worth it. Now I just need to hold my coins now and wait for Bitmains next strike with new generation of asic. I could assume Bitmain is extremely busy with developing new stuff and organizing manufacturing as much as they can. Lowering the price would jump order exponentially and they probably could not handle that much volume for now.

That design supports very low power mode for any new chips.

Antminer S3:
- 90w/ blade hashing 180-240GH will be 1kw/2.4TH miner.

Go go go Bitmain you can do it. Least Bitmain now has assets for developing some awesome stuff. While we see them pre-order scammers go away.

Those will be the upgrade cards for S2 case. Well designed box to house 10 hashing blades and suitable to run quietly for 1000W power usage.
Projected time for upgrade cards to arrive would be September.

Any price update also. Always intrested if price is competitive.

Also if you could tell us how the shipping goes. After you receive your miner. Every one of these sellers seems to suffer shipping delays.

Bumb

No sign of shipment.

Dont jump before your refund is actually processed.

They read, it's obvious. Why they dont refund everyone right now. They have no money
They are like every other pre-order company around this time, cannot afford to refund all their customers. Everyone is going down under but the ones who are shipping from Stock.

KNC was smart enough to make epic datorhall which keeps them floating.

Bitmine is gonna go under. No question about that. They have no working product to bring healthy steady cash flow or skills to make new product. This company is dying. Chinese are riding with same A1 chip and doing it with cheaper parts and cheaper labor costs. Bitmine cannot fight this with making miners in Swizerland

13k$ for 2TH is 11k$ loss of investment....if you get your miner delivered.
Bitmine also cannot make these miners for 1k$ 1TH which means they are out from this game.

Get your refund asap and move on.

Miner paid 24h ago waiting for shipping too.

Too tempting had to buy one to try it out. RaPi I have. PSUs I have. I wish to see new Friedcat chips.. Bitmain we have seen

Jack's site gave me Total (Shipping fee not included) 2.06444018 BTC
I have bought him before customer support is bit dodgy but they have shipped out hundreds of miners. I have buy very first Dragon 1T from him.

-edit- no idea how shipping is billed. I will wait and see.

Next batch could be 1$/gh
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421921.msg6943817#msg6943817

http://www.lightningasic.com

Ordered and paid Friday morning. Received and hashing today. Paid 1844$ for 1TH

Why. They still wont profit eaven close to the preorder money people have paid to this company. Every Bitmine customer got ripped off. Refund is only option. Delivered miners are bad investments.

You can buy 1TH from other vendors much much cheaper.

1TH 1900$
1.5TH 2500$

Ignore the spamming. Whats the great news? Btc breaking 600$

Yes, new boards with that price range keeping miner at 1000-1200 watts works. Shipping boards back, no. Not worth it. Shipping cost more than making plain board.
Bitmain wont need old boards as these chips are done around August and boards reworking to mount new chips cost much more than brand new plain board.
Chips are most expensive parts and they need new 40nm or eaven 28nm chip.

640x Bitmain BM1380 chips at S1stock speed would be 1.8TH miner 3600w.
S2 with BM1380 simply cannot do 1.6TH without consuming +2500w

Yes double the speed would result 4,5kw. NO, S2 cannot handle it.

So you expect it to be magic software update? You fail to understand how this hardware works.
They would have made 1.6TH single PSU miner from BM1380 chips if it woud have been possible. This design under well known old chip is easy.

1psu miner is optimal in design and cooling. Also most cost effective to manufacture, deploy, cool and run.

S2 has 640x Bitmain BM1380 gen1 chips
S1 has 64x Bitmain BM1380 gen1 chips

This chip is done. You choose which hardware you prefer. If you dont trust me... Master Dogie said it in his S2 thread about OCing S2. Pointless.

Cheap upgrade is replacemet cards but i currently dont see them having 128x BM1380 chips

So? Running S2 for 393 you would need 5kw power. 5psus and compressor cooling.
They undercloked it for reason. There is reson why you dont overclock S2.  If you want this same chip 350-393, 2TH with 4KW power usage you can buy 10xS1 for 4.3btc

Upgrade means new cards, new chips, same design. Not magic wand and more hashing power from same chips with lesser power usage.

These chips are done at 1.1w/1GH

Is psu included and will you sell without psu.

How many chips are on those 5 blades.

Are these avalon3 still for sale

Is Avalon 3 still available or in production.

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