I have been reading and following them for a while. If they are a scam, then they have gone a very weird route. They have offices, employees, videos touring their small US facility. Update pretty consistently and a LOT of people trust them with their money although more people seem to be losing faith due to endless delays.

As has been said, the smaller models don't exactly ruin me financially so it is more of an interest in a hobby than a serious investment. If I was seriously investing in mining, I would probably pre order those KNC's but I don't have the $ for those.

25MH/s on just CPU. i5 3570k oc'd to 4.2ghz 

4mh/s on my mobos onboard graphics so I don't bother.

Well I joined deepbit and did some CPU mining overnight. So I know that is working ok.

Should be interesting. Here is to hoping BFL ship my order within a couple of months.

I have browsed before but never needed to ask a question.

I am thinking of ordering a Jalapeno. I am not doing this as a money making scheme as such, I mean that is a bonus. I just think it is pretty cool to be part of the bitcoin network at a relatively early stage.

Computer on all the time is not an issue.

I have ordered one now. I don't expect to receive for a while. So long as it pays itself off over a few months I am happy to be part of the mining network.

Thanks for the help. I am sure I will be spending more time on here as it gets closer to delivery time. Hopefully no more delays.

Seriously guys, no more delays.

Seriously though, is it that simple?

I have ufasoft running at the moment CPU mining but I have no idea how to connect this to a pool. There doesn't seem to be any configuration to do. It just says mining at 20Mhash/s.

Since I can't post in the correct section, I will ask here.

If I get hold of a BFL 5 gh/s ASIC box, how exactly do I get started mining?

Do I register with a pool, enter those details in software provided with the ASIC box and away it goes? They claim to be plug and play but I want to be sure.

Thanks