Steve, have you been checking your email???

I sent updates to everyone through email and also included photos of the progress. From the sounds of it you have not seen these emails for some reason. Right now we are very busy working hard to get the miners ready to ship as quickly as possible so email is the main form of communication for us to update customers.

Yes exactly. That was a rendering we made in January.

The A1 chips get pretty hot so we designed a special case that is not your standard mining case design by any means. This is why we filed a Patent Pending app for it. Essentially just picture a miniature wind tunnel on each side of the case with metal rods and brackets supporting four large aluminum heatsinks. We will be releasing photos of the inside of the case over the next few days. Difficult to explain without showing a photo or drawing. We really think customers will be very happy with the design and that is why it has taken us a little longer than expected to ship. The case design did not delay anything but we had some voltage problems with the PCB's related to the A1 Coincraft chips. Those issues have all been worked out now though and we are expecting to start shipping over the next week. Now we are moving into full production mode.

bkminer, if you look here: http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news/12254065-ntek-th-miner-development-update  You will see updated photos of the size of our case. We have a special "Patent Pending" case design that uses a standard full size 4U design but it is the interior of the case that is very unique. Our designers came up with a very difficult internal case and cooling design to ensure the A1 Coincraft chips have adequate cooling.

If you order a miner from the website soon then the new order would still be part of our first batch we are building right now. We will be shipping in the order the payments were received but it will still be in the first batch so we can now safely say that we can stick to the 14-day timeframe. There is a good chance for new orders that we will be able to ship sooner. IMPORTANT: This only applies to a limited amount of miners that are not reserved from the first batch. Next batch orders to follow will be built and shipped shortly after. We have worked out all the design issues with our 10-chip A1 ASIC PCB design now so we are passed any delays we experienced since February.

We are updating our customers directly and when we ship (very soon) we will create an official support thread.

We have a limited number of units left to sell from the first batch.

Opened up PayPal as an option to use during checkout!

That is not the miner we are building in any shape or form. I am beginning to think that you must be working for or somehow associated with another mining hardware company. Look at the previous posts and you will clearly see that we are building our miners based on Bitmine A1 Coincraft 28nm chips.

How is something you bought for $600 free?

Also, I do not think you ever actually made any purchase with us. You may have placed an order but you did not actually pay for it.

Yes, and anyone who would like to visit our office in Alexandria, Virginia is welcome to stop by. Just need to know ahead of time so I can make sure that I am there at the time of visit. ;-)

I understand your concern. Here are some photos: http://ntekcomputers.com/blogs/news

We do not have the A1 chips we ordered in our office right now because they were shipped to the PCB builder in California several days ago. You can view the photos I took of the A1 Coincraft ASIC chips and clearly see they are sitting on the same drafting table in my office with the green cutting mat with white grid lines when I took those photos. Hope this helps set some minds at ease. We also have our new office address posted to the website now and welcome anyone to stop by for a visit.

Yes you are wrong. Please just give us some time to present our latest designs. This is of course a very competitive space so we are not going to show the exact design of our miners until they are shipping.

Obviously nTek Computers does not want to show our latest designs to the forum just yet. This is an older PCB design that Ben is showing you. Please stand by to see our new design once we ship the miners. Will not be long...

Yes we should be able to help you out since you have chips, just need to make sure that your PCB's are marked so you get your exact chips but that should be easy to handle. Send a message through the Contact Us page on our website or send a private message so we can exchange emails.

Contact me if you would like to discuss. I am happy to help out DIY'ers who have A1 chips if the timing of the PCB assembly works out.

Here is a recent photo of the nTek TH A1 Bitmine clone mining board with 10-chips



Project is very real and we are in the process of optimizing Cgminer with the hardware.

Hi Steve, normally I would be happy to have you stop by this weekend but I am visiting family for part of today and tomorrow so I will be unavailable. If you want to stop by our new office/warehouse location this week though then I would be more then happy to meet and show you the hardware we are assembling. I will also have a video by end of week or sooner showing the first production PCB's with A1 Coincraft chips installed in them by the end of the week. As long as there are no snow storms that effect shipping. Keeping my fingers crossed!!!;-)

Just let me know when you want to visit. After Tuesday would be best because we are in the process of moving into the new (larger) space and getting all of the component/parts boxes over there on Monday and Tuesday. I can be available in the evenings too if that is more convenient for you. Happy to work around your schedule to setup a time a time to meet.

On Monday when I go to the bank safety deposit box to get more A1 chips to FedEx to the PCB assembly facility, I would be happy to ask the bank manager to take a photo with me holding Monday's edition of the Washington post next to the trays of chips...so that there is no question anymore about us having the first 2,500 chip order.

I did not want to FedEx all of the chips at once to the PCB facility in California so I am sending them in batches as they need them for assembly. Figured it was more risky to send all in one box because there is always a chance the shipment could get lost. The rest of the chips are in anti-static bags locked safety away inside a safety deposit box at the local bank.

Bitmine actually sent about 2,633 chips because I am guessing there might be some failure rate as this is the very first production batch. This is also why we will be doing a 12 hour burn in bench test for each machine before shipping.

We have enough A1 chips to build at least 7 more of nTek 1.2TH/s miners so yes if you place an order soon then it will still be in the first batch. 62 miners in the first batch but we will also be getting more chips in February.

We are not hear to make anyone feel uncomfortable with ordering. If you would like a refund then please just email info@ntekcomputers.com and I would be happy to give you a full refund. I have given one refund to someone before the 14-days simply because they changed their mind about buying.

Based on Shopify http://www.shopify.com/

One of the most advanced and trusted storefront web systems on the web. We have also verified our business through Shopify with an "Employer Identification Number". Also our credit card processing is through Authorize.net which is another trusted platform which requires merchants to be verified.

A website does not prove that we will have working 1200Gh/s miners in customers hands soon. We will! I am just stating facts though because the website is not "fake"

Somehow someone misunderstood that Bitmine.ch had a scheduled delivery of the A1 Coincraft 28nm ASIC chips today. This was the first production batch of their new groundbreaking ASIC chips. We did not say that the chips would be delivered to the United States today. Good news is that I did confirm with the owner of Bitmine.ch that the chips were leaving Hong Kong today on schedule so we should have them very soon.

As many of you know this is very good news and the main reason nTek / RevUp Render decided to source the ASIC chips for our miners from Bitmine. They have a good reputation for delivering on time. Must be something to do with Swiss clocks! ;-)

Please understand that we are building these systems as quickly as possible. We all have been working 16+ hours every day to make sure we are crossing all our t's and dotting all of our i's.

The few people who ordered the TH miners first will be getting their's first. We are just about a week past the 14 days we expected originally just for those first few orders. Also, we originally sold those first systems on being 1000Gh/s and now are delivering at least 1200Gh/s and up to 1600Gh/s per miner with overclocking. The A1 chips are designed to be overclocked and we are using several very powerful delta fans to keep the chips nice and cool. There has been extra testing and validation work to ensure the chips will have a long lifespan at the higher hashing rates.

Feel free to post any questions for us here as an order support thread. RevUp Render (nTek) prides itself on excellent customer service. Please do not compare us to BFL....I think we have another 12 months of being late until that would be fair. Not one week of being late. Everything technically is on schedule. The A1 Coincraft chips have left and are in route. Hope that is good news for everyone!

Yes the site is new.
nTek Computers is a new brand of RevUp Render, Inc. www.revuprender.com
RevUp Render does not really sound like a computer company as it is more cloud based computing. Thus the new product branding for nTek Computers.
You can check out RevUp Render all you want and you will see that we are very respected for high performance computing related to architecture, engineering, and VFX.
Not sure how you would know how much items we have sold through the website since this is not public information.
Just because a site was registered recently does not mean it is fake. ntekcomputers.com is based on the Shopify.com platform and Shopify does have a process for verifying merchants with social security numbers, EIN's etc...

We will soon be putting a permanent physical address on the website. However, we have previously working in advanced cloud computing for the last five years. The very nature of cloud computing is to be mobile. Right now we are working out logistics if we want to have a manufacturing facility in California or the east coast. There are a lot of factors to consider to ensure that we can provide a steady supply chain to customers. We want to make sure that we can end the whole pre-order thing. Right now we are selling custom systems just like if you order a custom Alienware system from Dell, it might take 2-3 weeks for delivery. In the near term we want to just have systems on hand and ready to ship within a day or two so this is why we do not list an address on the site right now. Figured it would look worse to put one address and switch it once we iron out the details of our long term manufacturing process.

Soon enough people will be getting our new TH ASIC miners in their hands and I understand that is the only kind of proof in this industry. I respect that many have been burned by other mining hardware companies so I am not going to try to convince anyone too much until we deliver the first systems.

In the meantime anyone can see that we are an established business. Feel free to check out some of the ground breaking things we have done in the visual-supercomputing world!
You can't really fake stuff like this:

http://gfxspeak.com/2011/06/07/revup-render-introduces-revupvcs-on-realityserver/

http://archive.hpcwire.com/hpccloud/2011-05-23/revup_render_introduces_the_first_cloud_system_for_architects_based_on_nvidia_realityserver.html

http://www.cgarchitect.com/2011/01/cgarchitect-report-on-autodesk-university-2010#revup

http://www.elegantworkflow.com/?p=318

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9652959.htm

http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/alternatives-to-autodesks-cloud-rendering-service.html