pmed you

bump

well this miner is clearly directed at bitcoin, so I doubt that would be the case this time around. Plus the scrypt side of it does around 60MH at under 200 watts so I don't see a reason why anyone would buy this and only run one side of it. Lets hope the software solution they have for this make it seamless. 

Yep

Been trying to scour this thread for some info on reducing noise levels for this thing. Whats the best fan to use to get quiet operation?

I have two Coolmaster 50 CFM fans these things are quiet and will putting two of them at each end be enough to cool and S5? (I can under clock as well since noise > hash rate.

Looking at either of these miners, can buy two of them. US only.

I have a few of their 30MH ones if your interested

So they just had a custom cgminer that took in scrypt and SHA pools? Or was it a completly custom software solution?

Just worried this will get pretty complicated for a large scale farm.

Yes based on the schematics the chips are designed to be two completely separate systems, each BTC and LTC core are chained independent of each other on their own serial bus with their own power. Curious to see how they handle this hardware wise....they could just slap two USB ports on them and call it a day, but that would be a nightmare for setup.

To make this work efficiently each miner would have to have a controller, and simply plug in the ethernet port and just configure the BTC/scrypt pools. I never used their gridseed devices...how did the handle dual mode?

Have 16 down so far so need about another 24 or so picked up.

lol you can do the same thing with a $35 raspberry pie...

bah just noticed there is an actual group buy subform...moved post to

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059712

ill update that thread with all interested members

Current Interest (need 40 units for official open)

jstefanop - 6
philipma1957 - 1
bigD27 - 2
mavericklm - 2
herbpean - 1
wlefever - 1
root$ - 1
thedreamer - 1+
ecnad - 1
koenmtb1 - 2
fear58 -1
fullzer0 - 1
bigredbutton -2
hookthem - 1
tarzan - 1

Total 25/40

xircom - 30? ...total 55/40

Im trying to set up a group buy for the Avalon 4.1 miner: https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-module-1t/

For those that are not familiar its their latest product and is similar to an S5 in performance, and can run .55 W/GH under clocked @  980 GH/s. Main selling point over the S5 is that its SUPER quiet and is perfect summer bedroom/home miner with full metal enclosure.

Vids of how quiet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7UTdo_4AaQ

Problem is of course the price...individual units they want to charge around $600 shipped to the States, which is crazy. I have contacted them for a bulk buy and currentlly have them at $440 per unit shipped to the states if I buy over 40 units.

Pretty sure I can get them closer to 400 if I know this will go through, so I will be buying 6 units myself and would need 34 units picked up by other people.

I figure we all do individual payments (in BTC) to trusted escrow account that will pay ehash directly once all money is received, but we can get a group consensus on how we want to handle the buy if we have enough buyers!

So if interested post the number of units you would buy! (btw they have 80 in stock, probably more so if we get a lot of interested we can go over 40 and reduce price even more).

Group buy thread is up at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1059637.0

Post there if your interested!

keep it for when the price goes back to 1k? 

Well I will probably start a group buy thread in the forms, and see how many interested people we have.

Looks like 430 WITH shipping to US is best price I can get out of them. Wanted to get it to under 400 to make it worth it, considering you can get a single S5 shipped for 390...

The whole point of a group buy would be to do a drop ship in the US and distribute from here, otherwise they will still charge .5 btc shipping per. Shipping in the US will cost around $10 a unit.

They just quoted me $370 for 40 units, plus shipping. I will see how much shipping is and see how much better I can do, but would need a lot more interest if this would be serious to go through. I would take around 6 of them so would need people to grab the rest of the 34 units.