So. I'm posting here basically on behalf of a group interested in fetching gear at solid $/GH prices prioritized over W/GH. I'd recommend still sticking with stuff in the 1W/GH range (like the S2, or A1 Dragon, BTCGarden AMV1, ASICMiner Tube etc), but I wouldn't be scared of S1/S3/S4 offers either. I'm honestly not sure how much they're interested in buying - it's entirely possible the sky's the limit, so if you've got a dozen machines or a hundred machines you're looking to liquidate let me know.

(except the actual value hadn't been determined to within those digits until a few hundred years later?)

Listed price for Batch 6 is the 50% of full payment as deposit to reserve the stocks. The remaining amount must be paid before May 9.

So yeah, $177.12 is the half-down deposit. The full price is $354, a whopping $15 off list price (4% discount). What was their unit price discount on the 52-unit blocks they were selling in February, when we first tried to contact them and got no response?

I figured Hashlord was like the Landlord of mining, so probably an informal title for the DC owner/operator.

I emailed them about buying 50-100 units when they reopened sales at $320. By the time they got back to me it was $419 and I was told there was no discount for 100-unit sales. I checked back when they dropped the price to $369 and was still told that there was no discount for 100-unit sales. Since the 1600-unit mass purchase is priced at about $350 per unit, they're probably not in the mood to negotiate. Which is retarded because in 3 months 1.1TH at $350 is gonna cost quite a bit more than 1.1TH at $370 now especially when you factor in opportunity cost of not mining for 3 months.

I actually have 2 PI Day parties to go to today. Nothing like coming full circle, eh?

The only time I've ever had miners on an ATX supply was when I was testbenching ASICMiner Cubes last January or so. And smoked out one of the connectors. Server PSUs with high-quality cabling is hard to beat.

Yep, that's why folks like pmorici and I have been around making server-grade PSUs available to regular folks for the last year and some. For the cost of a junk ATX unit you can get a kilowatt of 80+ Gold capable of sustaining rated load indefinitely, with flexible cabling.

I had no trouble pushing a pair of overclocked S1s off a PSU for a couple months. When I was overcurrent-testing, I saw trips anywhere from 75 to 80A output depending on the specific model. 75A at 12V is 900W so you were probably pretty close to the PSU dropping out.

If you had another problem that could formulated into the work structure ASICs are expecting (basically spoofing cgminer output to the hardware's driver with data that isn't bitcoin jobs), sure you could.

Not unless you underclock it pretty hard. Specs say that PSU has a 22A 12V rail (most of its juice is on 3.3V and 5V, so it was probably designed before Pentium 4 and such were common), which means a max power output of 264W on the 12V. It's probably coregulated with 5V, so no draw on the 5V and high draw on the 12V would probably slack your 12V rail; 264W is an optimistic estimate and it'd probably burst into flames about the time you actually drew that from it. An S1 at stock settings will want closer to 360W of 12V to operate. If your S1 is undervolted and underclocked all the way they'll run below 100W, but that's certainly not the default configuration.

Port mapping would probably actually be the easiest option, which is also why it's one of the worst options - absolutely no security involved.

Yeah, I used to do regular business with 'em but have gotten no responses to any inquiries since Feb 12th. Carson told me they were cutting out of retail and focusing on industrial only, probably moving their hosting as well to somewhere with cheaper power.

Is evaporative cooling an option? If the relative humidity is quite low and water isn't expensive to supply, a passive evaporative inlet system could do quite a bit of good.

*ahem* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=940317.0

I've been wanting to get one of these but have not a lot of available coin. I'd consider tossing in a GB, one unit in the US.

What would be the cost of shipping to Malaysia?

I'm not an investor, not a AMHasher, not a defender by any means, but I remain optimistic mostly because I really want to play with some BE300. That they never ordered a full batch is pretty disappointing since it was expected they'd have chips in hand approximately right now instead of the other thing, the thing where they don't exist at all.

No idea. I haven't had time to follow up on it, and I haven't gotten an answer yet when I asked the same question.

Someone mentioned a Spondoolies board to me, and asked about firmware dev. Since I'm not interested in SP chips at present and Novak's the programmer, I handed him over to Novak. He's been talking to another one of the guys about a BM1382 project I think. Are they signal-compatible? The best thing Janet could give me as far as data protocols was "look at the U3 code". I'm hoping I won't have to do the hardware and software both, but it's possible.