*drooling* over the SuperComputer motherboard!
This is a top notch rig!
lol... in the bottom right hand corner of the motherboard, there was a blue LED that I replaced with an Ultraviolet one. Looks kewl. Problem is I'm not handy enough with the Dremel to actually make something awesome out of the rig. So what you get is a mass of tubes and parts, that while working, will want some experience to re-wire a little bit... BTW, this thing won't ship too well, so if any of you are near-by, that would be nice - I could deliver within a reasonable distance, or you can pick up. |
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Parting out a custom watercooled PC - no GPUs; everything works! Here are some pics (from when the system was whole): http://imgur.com/a/MuaUs/allPrices lowered even more, PM offers or put them in the thread!Will sell the motherboard and its chipset waterblock as a package for $450 $350 $300 $250 shipped (or make an offer) <-- Price lowered dramatically!Motherboard: Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer with 7 PCI-E X16 slots Custom Koolance waterblock for the motherboard chipset -- Original heatsink still available, will be included if you wish to use it instead! The board is designed for GPGPU computing and CUDA, so it will handle many Nvidia or ATI video cards with ease. Two IDE Lightscribe DVD burners - $15 $8 each shipped, or both for $25 $15. Four 1GB sticks of ECC DDR2 server memory - HP Brand, pulled from a DL 380 G5. Replacement part number 416471-001 - $27 shipped (or make an offer) Feel free to stop by and have a look, just PM me to set up a time and get the location. Price is negotiable, make an offer! You can pay with Bitcoins, MtGox redeem codes, Dwolla, cash, check, or money order. Processor: Core i7-920 (I think this is a C stepping, not D0) - SOLD
Corsair all-in-one cooler (HydroCool 200 ex) - SOLD
PSU for $250 $225 shipped (or make an offer)
PC Power & Cooling Turbo-cool 1200 watt single-rail PSU (with slight mods, see posts below) - No longer for sale, I decided to build another rig 
RAM for $75 $70 shipped (or make an offer)
12GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX RAM -- SOLD
5-drive hotswap bay - $99 $80 shipped (or make an offer) - SOLD
Cooler Master HAF 932 case - has a few holes cut out for some failmods, so make an offer. No longer available, I am going to chop it up for another rig 
Radiator, pump, fittings, hose, etc - $150 $100 $90 shipped (or make an offer)
Custom watercooling loop for the CPU with a powerful pump (EK DCP 4.0) and 120mm x 360mm radiator with 3 fans Swiftech Apogee GTZ now included! |
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I sleep with 8 5870's and a 6990 mining just fine.
Although mine are in the basement and I'm two floors up.
I love the sound of fans whirring away <3 If I could live in a datacenter, I would |
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the_joint,
Welcome to Bitcoinica! I will send you the f**king 5 BTC to your account for you to start trading. You made a pretty great guess!
(This is off-topic forum, so I posted this off-topic stuff.)
That's unique...are you offering me a 5 BTC account as a promo or something? If you genuinely think I deserve it, then I really want to thank you, but I only truly care about the original 5 BTC. It is up to you. In either case, you are very kind. I understand what the original 5 BTC means to you. But well, why can't there be a tie? You deserve it as much as Goat did, and old_engineer wasn't wrong at all to give out only 5 BTC for the contest. Just post your username and I will send 5 BTC to you immediately. If you don't want to trade on Bitcoinica or don't like it, just withdraw it right away. :-) This is marketing at its finest. |
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Since the official specs are updated I will decide the bet as "True" this weekend and distribute the coins. Please raise objections if you have any. http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=141Thank you everyone for your participation. No objection, but I would like to submit for the record that that was a poorly worded bet. Oh well. |
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warranty isn't going to help if they're not going to honor it  Wait, are we still on this "new company, therefore scam" shit? They have working units that have been tested (Luke-jr has one, and Inaba has tested one too), and have been open about their revised performance claims. Please, go back to your cave now. Man, BFL is lucky to have dedicated fans like you. Looking at your posting profile almost entirely devoted to posting praise on BFL threads, you seem to be quite the expert in BFL matters. (sigh) I wish I too had that kind of charisma that lead people to create accounts just for the purpose of posting on my threads. I just read all his past posts as well. Tough my take was more of an 'optimistic' person than a fan boy or devoted pumper. Cynicism is a much needed commodity lest we grow too complacent. But like all good things, is much healthier in controlled doses. *offers you a hug* Cheers, Derek Optimistic? Yeah. Fanboi? Nah, but the forums are not my preferred medium of exchange, and I created an account to discuss this product specifically. My home is IRC, where the normal folks hang out (and where you can learn more about things that are happening in real time). Using the forum is just admitting that you aren't so wholly into the scene that you can't devote your entire time to it, all day. Anyways, back to our regularly scheduled BFL-bashing, with a sprinkling of misinformation and a dash of cynicism, not to mention a heaping helping of blockheaded stubbornness on the part of the folks that are so happy to protect the sheeple from spending their own money after doing their own research. |
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warranty isn't going to help if they're not going to honor it Wait, are we still on this "new company, therefore scam" shit? They have working units that have been tested (Luke-jr has one, and Inaba has tested one too), and have been open about their revised performance claims. Please, go back to your cave now. |
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Slightly murky.
But not necessarily evil or scam.  |
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Will it be possible to mine with this device at public mining pools with a rate of 1 GH/s or just at one pool from BFL ?
In other words, is this a software trick ?
Any pool. We mined on Deepbit and my pool to do some troubleshooting and some comparison data that I did not detail nor think is relevant to the test. It uses a modified open source miner program - and the modified comes from the fact that it's modified to use the BFL hardware instead of CPU or GPU. How hard to you think it would be to rip the important bits out and build it into conman's cgminer instead of ufasoft's miner? Then we can have 1 miner to rule them all! |
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You already redesigned it? What modification? Just the power box change? I'm lost...
The external PSU is not a manufacturing issue. The power system of the PCB has been doubled in capacity to ease the bottleneck caused by the need for power from the chips. This is what we've been working on over the last two weeks. From what I understand, some of the additional power consumption is because of the power circuit being run above design levels. Once the power circuitry is oversized, the efficiency should increase, and the total consumption should decrease overall. Is this correct? |
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<troll>If you guys frequented IRC like normal people instead of skulking on a forum, you might learn some interesting tidbits.</troll>
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Off of the "is it a scam" topic...
I was looking around the website and the Drivers page appears to point all links back to itself. Would it be possible to post some screenshots of the software so we can know/make suggestions on what features are supported?
I.e. ..
Does the front end software support fail-over pools?
What OS's are supported? just Windows 7? what about XP?
Is there a realtime Mh/s readout?
I think the hardware requirements were already addressed as "if it can run a browser, thats good enough"
thanks,
Sigg
My understanding is that it is based on a modified Ufasoft core. |
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more like 250$ if you want almost the same amount of $/MH
But Icarus is open and has more ports and usefulness, so yeah... |
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For the record, I believe that neither DeepBit nor Inaba are shills for BFL
And I can't imagine what deluded frame of mind is causing other people to think otherwise. It's insane. |
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Hi guys, I thought you might enjoy a screen shot update of the BitForce unit at work. At this current stage of tweaking, we're getting pool reported speeds from 850 to 970 mh/s. We'll be making additional adjustments prior to demo this weekend with Inaba so it's reasonable to expect these figures will change.
Our development has been extended due to increased power demands. The speed of the unit had to be reduced to compensate. Our current focus is finding the most economical balance between the two prior to finalization & delivery production.
Regards,
BFL
For the few of us that aren't quite as concerned with power usage, will there be a way that we can flash alternate firmwares in order to increase or reduce speed? |
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... person coming out of the woodwork ...
Hmm, really? |
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...snip...
And furthermore, meeting a known community member in person is far and away more credible than anything that anyone can send in a message or on IRC or in a forum or in an email. FWIW. I am going to play the devil's advocate but involvement of a "known member of the community" as a neutral and integer witness is a basic prerequisite for a good scam. Did you people already forget MyBitcoin? At this point you are all waiting for a positive feedback from Inaba to rush on your Paypal account and purchase BitForce units en masse... What If Inaba was the con artist? Indeed, what if gmaxwell, who started this thread, is really the puppet master? His posts have merely been leading everyone else into the scam. Wow, he is playing chess while we have been playing checkers!  *Passes out complementary tinfoil hats* |
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...snip...
And furthermore, meeting a known community member in person is far and away more credible than anything that anyone can send in a message or on IRC or in a forum or in an email. FWIW. |
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I understand that, but a whole line? How much time, money, and such would be invested into that. Not only that, but it seems to be the only type of product on the products page. Compare to:
Friend says, "boy Trucks are cool!"
Small business says, "I've never heard of this 'truck' but I'm going to gear my business only to this 'truck'!"
I think it is more of a proof of concept, to show the "big customers" what's possible. |
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we didn't start this thread or announce ourselves at all...We were discovered in mid development by a few in the bitcoin community...we put up a pre-order page to keep it orderly...gmax heard about our project and posted...we hadn't expected to enter the market at the time our project was discovered.
Sorry.. thought it was a rhetorical question. I don't think there's anything remarkable about building a website prior to expected product release. The response on the other hand was sort of like stepping on a bear trap and caught us completely off guard. We're not bitcoiners... well, we weren't bitcoiners anyway. One of our team had a friend in the bitcoin community who seemed pretty interested in our BitForce platform development and we've been pulled forward by that conversation ever since.If you (BFL) weren't a bunch of bitcoiners, why did you create a product line, specifically for mining, with no other projects listed? That in itself is fishy. If I didn't like or know about computers, would I start a computer store? Here, I highlighted the relevant bits for you. |
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