Sounds painfully correct. Their progress has been incredibly slow, with them moving on a single product (Jalapeno) at an accelerated rate not remotely linear with a different product (singles). It could take them until late october to catch up to July orders, and possibly some time in december before they catch up the last pre-order.

In my opinion, they are simply using new "orders"/pre-orders to keep up with producing orders from 7-12 months earlier.

Please don't be offended by this, but I still have an august order for a starter kit #13X that hasn't budged. I REALLY hoped that it would be tested, packed, and shipped (or at least by the door to ship) by the end of the weekend.

Its going to be September 9th at the earliest when my unit ships, which is nearly 2 weeks later than hoped in the 'by the end of august' shipping estimates. This is tremendously faster than BFL has/will manage, but slightly disspointing as every day that goes by is a significant reduction of its lifetime income.

Many thanks for your work so far, and I am sure that a lot of other orders >#100 feel the same way, particularly if the remaining units are "testing" all weekend long into the 100TH pool

your account has 16 posts, most of which focus on arguing/asking what consitutes a bitfury 'UNIT', which directly relates to a bitbet you lost.
(the bet was that bitfury would deliver on their promise to deliver units at 400Ghash and under 400w, by the end of august - They did, albeit adding a little extra hardware to compensate a rushed manufacturing process that wont occur again

The cards underpreform due to manufacturing methods, not the chips or design. the next batch is expected to work perfectly, and some cards in this batch CAN run >25ghash each, ohers can't

They met all customer promises: they shipped >400GHash to a customer who ordered it, even if a few extra boards were needed to do so. (BFL is shipping thier 'Units' one at a time, several weeks/months apart)

This thread reeks of 'sore-loser', and in my mind the company delivered on every promise: minimum hashrate for an ordered product, maximum power consumption, and delivering in the month of august. (which i might add is the most important factor of the bet IMO). They delivered on time and every customer is satisfied (save for a few technical errors in rare cases). Focusing on the definition of a 'Unit' is pulling at hairs

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sounds like EMI interference along the lines. This may be a good reference/example of the issue:  http://www.overclock.net/t/1424387/gallery-build-log-ultimate-wall-mount-rig-maxxplanck-v2-completed

Guy build a dead-sexy wall-mounted coputer system and used pci extension cables. basic cables caused his GPUs to not turn on. aluminum foil-shielded cables enabled the cards to run, but disconnect under 3D applications. He resorted to professional shielded cables for a working result

try wrapping it in aluminum, or using a shorter cable. Your image shows that it folds over itself a bit because it is ~4inches too long, and this could be enough to cause interference

looks like you 'destroyed' the connections for 2 chips in your board between chip and resistor set. Is that the effective way to disable the chip? Does it still take power when the board hashes?

up to order ~98 have shipped. No news from anyone higher than that (#13X still 'CC paid')

gorgeous case! how much was shipping to canada? i might get one for my starter.

on a similar note, how are people placing/mounting these? Are they safe and stable on a flat surface, or do they need risers and/or non-conducting surfaces? I plan to put it in a corner of the room where it wont be disturbed, but i want to be 100% sure bumping the table or poking around the unit wont topple the miner onto the floor

I think past ~december, the monthly increase (currently around 76%), will taper towards 50%, and by ~february/march should be a lot more reasonable, maybe 35%.

right now, GPUs are pretty much all stopped mining bitcoins
soon, FPGA will follow (~45w/Ghash) at $0.10/kwh, these are only making about $0.35/Ghash/day right now, and in another 2 months will be costing more electricity than making BTC
next, avalon will stop (~10w/Ghash
then, asicminer will stop (~8w/Ghash)
then BFL (~6w/Ghash)

bitfury is operating at <1w/Ghash, which puts it in line with 2nd gen ASIC designs, and enables them to mine at a profit for MONTHS (years?) longer than the above competitiors, which currently account for most of the network

too bad they only have a hashrate of <1TH, could take weeks to find a block...

so here is my process so far for refunding a 5Ghash jalapeno purchase:

1) contact BFL for refund - no response after 3 days
2) paypal dispute (after 45days)
3) paypal dispute closed automatically (after 45 day limit)
4) call paypal:
- operator cannot refund after 45 days
- acknowledges that BF Labs Inc. has other complainants and agrees to make a note of my case in their file
- suggests calling my bank to do a cancel/chargeback
5) call bank:
- paypal was a 'preauthorised debit', meaning they cannot reverse after 24hrs
- suggest calling paypal again to resolve the issue
6) call paypal:
-new agent
-explained to her all of the above
- indicates that BF Labs has an 'account manager' (apparently a lot of large paypal sellers have one), and will email my case to that person
----> implied that the account manager has the ability to refund payments and may be able to assist my case
- I am told that I should receive a response from paypal either later today or monday/tuesday after the weekend


I guess we will see what happens. I only paid $332 CAD for my unit, so even if i get no money back and get my product in "two weeks", it is not a terrible loss, but I dont see how I could possibly receive the unit before mid-october, and thats about the time when bitfury will start shipping its $500/25Ghash pre-orders that would be a far better utility of my money

I have a 730W psu running about 30-40W (modminer FPGA) over only the 12V line, with the always-on hack and its run continuously for about a week no issues

extra load? a modern PSU should run safely with minimal load, you just need to bridge the mobo sensor pin to ground to force it to stay on

link? I was under the impression that if a board has <16 working chips, it may be possible to overclock the others using the additional headroom provided by not running a chip (ie: 2/16 chips dont work -> 12.5% more power available to working chips. (am i correct on this, can anyone confirm?)

so is this to say i *should not* use slush's pool? I am using it now for an FPGA with no issues, but obviously i will want to squeeze every drop from my bitfury

#13X still sitting at CC paid, i will be a little dissapointed if it doesnt update tonight. Punin shipped pretty much every single on of his orders within 2 days, and dave has had the entire set of m and h boards since friday

this time yesterday we saw orders up to 87 or so change status, but nothing today... odd and a little dissapointing

still no other offers? I would love to grab these before its too late, and if you want to sell your asic for the best price its ever going to fetch (i wouldnt be surprised to see groupuy prices drop to 0.12BTC amid the difficulty bump and BTC rate increase)

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