Please check on #3978 also.

Thanks.

I doubt that just by the sheer numbers of them I received (coupons).  Plus if they really wanted to move them, they would continue to lower the price.  AFAIK, the price hasn't changed since the coupons came out.  That's why I quit buying the S4. Even though they were loud, they were a set and forget miner.

#3978   Dec 25, 2014   paid   unfulfilled   $1,000.00

I'm so jelly of those that have actually received a confirm.  I ended up waiting a day because I thought I'd receive an email from SP. Guess I won't be seeing it Monday after all.

That's what I'm banking on.  I'll have both in here next week to decide which I like better. I've got a 220v 30a circuit just waiting for them.

Not too major, but the 10/16/2014 firmware doesn't completely address var diff as well as the patch ck put up.  The only problem with his is having to reapply after any restart. With 10/16 firmware I'd hit 1900-2000, with ck's patch I'd hit 2000-2100gh/s.

Wow, thanks for the quick response.  Hopefully they'll arrive Monday and I'll get to work on them.  Can't wait to compare them with a live S5 unit.  I've got to do some year-end buying for tax reasons and I'm down to these 2 choices.

Maybe I'll be a legendary by the next time you send out review units

Anyone know if I'll run into any issues with SP20 setup?  It will be on a 10.10.90.x network, but the computer I will be using to access that network will be on a 192.168.1.x network.  My IT guy has my miners on a different network than our main one, to keep some stuff off limits. I can typically just type in the ip address of my dragons, s3, etc and get to their interfaces.

It looks like the SP has a different web gui to do that.

Hopefully I'll receive both my SP20s and S5 units before year end.  Really looking forward to the comparison. "Loud" is so subjective, its the only thing that has ever really been noted as a negative for the SPs.

Thanks folks.  I just wanted to make sure of what I was seeing.  Now I'll wait for both to arrive and see just how the sounds levels compare.  I was really hoping it would be a clear cut decision to purchase the S5 units, but it's not.

Not trying to promote one over the other, but I think SP is still letting him collect more than 200 units.  So even at your numbers it's 42 days before it is a better deal.

Truthfully, I'm hoping the S5 knocks it out of the park.  If it can be a quiet little miner that the wife won't notice, then it's worth the premium to me.

I would have thought that too, but that's not what I'm being told. And if you go to the checkout part, you will see it adds over $1300 for shipping

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903286.0

I confirmed this with SP and they are going to ship direct.

That's just based on the the following:

S5 (From Bulk Batch2): $384 +$30 (averge shipping from China to USA)=$414 per 1155G, 590W.

It's what I was told shipping would be on Batch 2.

So I'm reaching out to others for their take on the S5 vs SP20.  I calculate that it would take 125 days to recoup the additional electricity that you are saving with the S5 vs. it's premium over the SP20 when comparing equal hash rates and not taking into account the lower power draws of the SP20 when down clocked.

                                                                                     S-5                                    SP20
Cost (including shipping)                                                      414.00 $                              500.00 $ 
Hash Rate                                                                            1155                                   1700
Cost per Hash                                                                        0.36 $                                 0.29 $       
Power (watts)                                                                         590                                   1200
Watts per Hash                                                                0.510823                             0.705882

Comparable Costs @ 1155gh/s
Costs                                                                                     414                             339.7059
24hr power cost $.11/kwh                                                        1.56 $                                2.15 $       
Power Savings per 24hrs                                                          0.59 $       

Cost Difference                                                                     74.29 $     
# of Days to recoup Savings                                                124.911      

So unless I plan on keeping the S-5 longer than 125 days, it wouldn't make sense to get it vs the SP20.  Am I missing something?  Also this is using the 52 unit price for the S-5 vs. the single unit price of an SP20.

Sorry tech changes quickly.  I've already moved on to SP20 and S5.

Ok, how about put me down for 2 units then?

I don't know if I'd take that bet.  After the S-1, most miners wouldn't mine more btc than what it orig cost in btc to purchase them after power costs.  Now buying hardware, mining and then selling hardware and replace with newer equipment definitely made money.

What a great question.  Would definitely save some clutter.

My bank only allows 2 international wires a year.   Plus it always triggers an SAR.

Well, just ordered 2 of them to give a test run. Maybe that will help me decide on my year-end purchases.