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To anyone who might be misled by this post, those photos are not of a 500 GH/s BFL MiniRig.
- The first couple photos are of an early dev unit built with only a few boards and no control module.
- The second group of photos are of an FPGA mini rig prototype from 2011.
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Congratulations to the Avalon team. In spite of the competitive banter, we've always had respect for the capability of NGzhang & co. kudos for your achievement.
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We're eating bag after bag of them here in the office. GREAT product Dave. Thx.
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Actually, this photo was of a one off board that was played with in the Lab... The PCB is Mini Rig and the Processors are from the Single. It's not meant to work for mining, it was for other tests. Those are the Altera STIII chips with the heat spreader removed.
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If I remember, the silicon is 17x17mm. The package is 29x29mm. I'll measure it and confirm when I get into the office today.
Hey cool. If you can post something from Altera, or a photo, I'd appreciate it (and will send you 5 BTC, of course).  You can send the 5btc to the Freenet project ( https://freenetproject.org/ ) Their wallet is: 1966U1pjj15tLxPXZ19U48c99EJDkdXeqb For more information: https://freenetproject.org/donate.htmlOn the other hand, if subSTRATA qualified for it first. That's fine too... I haven't looked at the document he provided. Thx |
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If I remember, the silicon is 17x17mm. The package is 29x29mm. I'll measure it and confirm when I get into the office today.
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Please excuse this intrusion into Tom's thread, but BFL keeps getting brought up as being responsible for any negative post against Tom. Aside from Tom & Inaba's personal sparing, BFL has no bad feelings for bASIC. We welcome Tom, Avalon and others into the market and look forward to friendly competition. It will only benefit the consumers and the bitcoin community overall.
For the record... Mesarah has nothing to do with BFL and we don't appreciate the mudd slinging.
There's been well over a year of pleasure trolling at our expense and with moderator involvement. This has had a negative impact on the value of these forums. We've tried not to engage it and as a result have mostly left the forums to take their own course. I think most people would agree with me that the signal to noise ratio has worsened considerably as a result.
Please be fair when that crowd think takes on other targets... and don't assume BFL is the source. We're not. Having the moderators carry this assumption forward is doubly bad. With a fair approach, we can restore the value of these forums, but it's going to take some effort and fresh thinking.
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If anyone has a need for replacement fans - either top or bottom. Please write office@butterflylabs.com and ask. We'll be happy to send them out free of charge. Question is do you (BFL) need the fan sent back in order to get a replacement? because i have already thrown it away since it was dead. Thanks! You don't have to send in a your old fan. |
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If anyone has a need for replacement fans - either top or bottom. Please write office@butterflylabs.com and ask. We'll be happy to send them out free of charge. |
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Are Darla Jo and Jody the same person?
The best I can ascertain is yes, and she lives with John M (Mutrux) on their urban chicken farm. For those who don't know the difference between urban and rural: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUY3UJTQvBkHoly cow.... that's a great video. |
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The Jalapeno draws it's power from two USB port connectors. Both need to be connected to achieve the full 4.5 GH/s performance. (At the users discretion, a single USB connector can be used if it has a 2nd head split off as is common for use with laptop DVD drives).
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Probably 90nm. Seems to be the most cost effective.
Prepare for the improbable.  sorry dude, i invested with your competitor(who is using 90nm apparently)... will be interested to see what you've got 'under the hood' either way. May the force be with you. |
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Probably 90nm. Seems to be the most cost effective.
Prepare for the improbable. 14nm? That'd be pretty improbable.  Wouldn't that be nice... |
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Probably 90nm. Seems to be the most cost effective.
Prepare for the improbable. |
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They have a 1/3 rule thing going last time I been on their forum.
The 1/3 rule for shipping only applies to orders placed in the first month. They said that after that, they would ship orders normally, as they do now: by order number. Keep in mind there's a lot of froth and heresay in the forums about BFL, but I think you'll find that our customer service is excellent after having properly staffed up over the last 12 months. We have a large team focused on serving our customers.
+1 I sometime have to wait a day or two to initially respond if they're busy, but they always respond quickly after that, and have helped me out plenty of times. I hope I get a response too. So far I am on day 3 of waiting for them to get back to me on my email. I believe your email was a complaint about Inaba (please excuse me if I am wrong). We are addressing customer concerns in first priority. |
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I will offer a 20BTC bounty to anybody who posts a measurement of the size of the die used in BFL's "SC" devices. I'm assuming they all use the same chip. It's really easy to get the die measurement from a broken device -- just grind off the plastic/ceramic top using a dremel and pull out a ruler. I will be happy to escrow the bounty with a well-known forum member if you can present credible evidence that you're serious about this -- that way you can be sure you'll get paid before you totally wreck your already-broken device. I need this figure in order to compute the η-factor for their product. I will also offer a 20BTC bounty for knowledge of which process node BFL is using. However, I caution in advance that it's not as easy to be 100% certain about that -- you can't just measure it with a ruler -- so claiming this bounty will be more difficult and will involve more verification (which might not even be possible) than the raw die-size bounty. Please post here if you have any questions about what would be sufficient to claim this bounty; I don't want any hard feelings. I have offered bounties like this in the past and have a history of paying promptly. Both of these bounties become null and void if BFL releases the figures themselves. Hi Elden, the node and method are detailed in the upcoming issue of bitcoin magazine. (Issue #4). |
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Sometimes customers will fill out the order form as many as six times as they change their mind and then pay for the one they finally decide on
Well that is good news. Maybe you guys could add a ticker to the website "now filling order 8532" "now filling order 8533" lol
I Think you guys will get a whole new wave of orders as soon as you start to ship.
Actually, we have a daily blog from customer service that gives exactly these updates as product ships out the door. https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blog.phpKeep in mind there's a lot of froth and heresay in the forums about BFL, but I think you'll find that our customer service is excellent after having properly staffed up over the last 12 months. We have a large team focused on serving our customers. |
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Quantis, the order number isn't a good representation of the number of units. As previously mentioned, there are a high percentage of orders placed that aren't completed through payment. Sometimes customers will fill out the order form as many as six times as they change their mind and then pay for the one they finally decide on.
Furthermore, we've made tremendous investments in being able to ship in volume once we begin. Orders placed now are slated for January delivery.
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The theoretical max performance of a fully populated card is 128 GH/s. It's highly unlikely that we'll ever get close to that peak performance. Nevertheless, there's quite a bit of margin left above the 60 GH/s mark... some of which is being enjoyed in the Mini Rig configuration of the card.
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