Am i the only one who wants to play the vidya but is torn between playing and losing muh coins?
As far as I know i'd have to stop mining to play games.
How do you guys balance this conflict?
i has separate computers. i run shelf ov gpus dedicatd 2 ltc minin an i has werkstashun dedicatd 2 gamin an minin support vms. Purposely misspelling words on a global board is not cute. It limits your potential audience and may limit the feedback that you are asking for. |
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Bah, only 4x PCIe connectors. Piecing together some 3 card Litecoin rigs and these would be killer PSUs with 6x PCIe connectors.
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I'm seeing 12-13GH/s @98%-100% efficient on the blade interface and 10-16 GH/s on BitMinter. I'm really happy with my single blade and I hope future blades drop in price so I can make a sweet 5 node 'cluster'.
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Received mine and got it up and running use the stratum proxy pointed at btcguild. Has anyone bothered to try running any SHA256 alt-coins with this thing? I briefly tried to get TRC running with p2pool and failed miserably. p2pool was complaining about the blade returning hash values greater than expected.
Shifted over to slush's pool due to btcguild fees. Tried again to get TRC running on p2pool through a mining proxy and my Cairnsmore1 boards work fine but the ASICMINER blade doesn't work. If anyone succeeds in this let me know. |
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Received mine and got it up and running use the stratum proxy pointed at btcguild. Has anyone bothered to try running any SHA256 alt-coins with this thing? I briefly tried to get TRC running with p2pool and failed miserably. p2pool was complaining about the blade returning hash values greater than expected.
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dhl fixed my shipping name and called me. seems to be in Cincinnati now
Was that without your intervention? Curious if I should call them up to correct the address or let it slide. Mine is also showing up in Cincinnati. Maybe it'll arrive Saturday  |
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My shipping address looks all goofy but if a human looks at the label near the zipcode they will know what to do. I think.. For reference this is what my address appeared like
firstname lastname
street address 'APT'
apt_number city state
nearby city, zipcode
US
I'm guessing the nearby city is the city where DHL has a distribution center or something like that. Once again, if a human reads it I think they'll comprehend it.
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I paid slightly less than 30K for my [upgrade] order of two BFL SC miniRigs, with an aggregate hash rate of 3 TH/s - so why would I want to pay 30K for a measly 400 GH/s?
An absurd proposition.
So is the minirig, at jally power draws, a minirig needs 9KW of power each. It's a portable fire starter and neighborhood light dimmer, and the power bill will each up a vast amount of profit. the average household only can pull 3kw tops if you run everything you have all at once. That's cute. The average doll house with an easybake oven? Go check the power consumption of your oven and dryer and come back with your findings. I'd have had serious issues if I was capped at 3kW at my apartment. |
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Tracking received via PM.
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Redeem the coin, ship the coin to me, and I'll shoot the brass with a .338LM round. I won't even charge for the ammo or the resulting youtube clip.
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Why do I need powered risers, if each card has this:  Some cards had designs where components on the boards pulled exclusively from the PCIe slot. I believe it was the HD 5870 that pulled the current to power the GDDR from the PCIe slot which resulted in a lot of overclockers frying the 24-pin connectors on their boards when you were running memory intensive benchmarks with a quadfire setup. I would like to believe that AMD/NVIDIA have fixed this but I wouldn't place any bets on it. They are allotted 75w(or is it 50w) from the PCIe slot and they are going to use it. |
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I made it very clear I wanted to pay immediately, and was not provided that option.
That is why I both had my bid rescinded and will not be blacklisted.
That part needs to be clear.
Secondly, I made one(1) bid, and it was the last bid.
I drove nothing up.
Thirdly, as I have demonstrated in this thread, I had the money ready to pay.
You did not honor a binding bid - full stop. I was not provided the means to do so, and still have not been. Bottom line. Are you joking? Payment instruction are and were in the OP. The address to which you have to pay is the following: 1GfYjwX4uGQYDbqRtHYWMxCrMaVVWqK9DZ You can check it by yourself here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al1fvFT7Sd5bdFhLaW9Lb05GT252UERSbkhJdm8yeHc#gid=0I see that now, but the point is that information needs to be provided immediately. If you cannot even bother to read the rules of the auction before you place a bid, then why would anyone trust you to follow the rules of the gambling games you run? I read the rules, specifically 24h (payment and info collection). My understanding of that is stated clearly. I expected to be able to pay within any point of the 24 hours. Friedcat posted the payment addresses a couple hours after John had tallied up the bids. I can't be bothered to go find Friedcat's exact post to give you a timestamp, I'll leave that as an exercise for you in how to use a forum. Also, the rules.. This round also have a 96h period in total. But it's divided to 48h (auction) and 48h (payment and info collection), instead of last time's 72h (auction) and 24h (payment and info collection). You read the wrong thing and inferred that payment acceptance would be immediate like eBay. I don't even get why this matters but for the sake of arguing, nowhere does it state that payment would be accepted immediately after the auction ended. Stop trying to weasel out of this. |
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It didn't cause any problems for the legitimate bidders.
True, but the fact stands that s/he placed a bid and then chose not to pay. Because he was unable to line up an immediate sale and make a profit this venture was not worth his time. In the BTC speculation forum this would likely earn a round of congratulations. In an auction this is being inconsiderate and warrants a scammer tag in my book. If not a scammer tag then at least a ban from the Auctions subforum. |
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Its silly how much people pay for the Erupter Blades. I don`t support their practice of auctioning everything out either since they know demand is skyhigh. They don`t do it to help people make a good deal since it can never be a good deal. They do it to earn the most money on each Blade.
55 BTC for one Blade is just too much. Thats $7800 in todays price. It will take people about 3 months to just come out even. With BFL shipping units each day, with the many DYI Avalon projects out, its a really big risk.
First, ASICMINER is a business. It is their goal to make money. They aren't twisting our arms for BTC. I trust that soon they will sell their blades at a fixed price. For now they are just trying to acquire as much profit as possible. Second, the blades are expensive but it is a gamble. I am gambling that I will make more BTC with this blade than I could by ordering from BFL or Avalon. In reality I will likely order from both companies once their shipping times become predictable. Well I dont care that they are a business. I don`t support their methods. Their actions is created to make a buzz, not to mention high price. They are actually shipping out the blades, I give them that though. For 8000 USD you could purchase 20 * 7970s, have a hashrate of 15GH/s (4GH/s more than Blades), have the possibility to resell them after you are done with them. Or shift to Litecoins. With Erupter Blades you are kinda stuck since they can`t be used for Litecoins. Its all or nothing Understandable on not supporting it, that is fair. 75 BTC didn't seem reasonable after looking at organofcorti's estimates on BTC/day. 45-50 BTC was my cutoff for this auction and I scraped by at 50.5 BTC. The next auction, if it happens in 3-4 weeks, would have a cutoff around 30-35 BTC for myself I suspect. Re: HD 7970s, I would love to see how you are racking 20 7970s @ $400/GPU. I think 7950s make more sense and even with them you are looking at a minimum of $400/GPU when factoring in MB/CPU/PSU/RAM/risers and something to house this rig. I did the GPU thing(ran a 14-15 GH/s farm for 6 months) and I'm tired of them. I'll run my remaining GPUs into the ground and keep up the hunt for more ASICs. I'm not too concerned about the blades being limited to BTC. If BTC fails I'm confident LTC will fail with it. By the time BTC's difficulty makes the blade a negative earner, I will have replaced it and I am gambling it will have hit ROI at least 2x. |
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Its silly how much people pay for the Erupter Blades. I don`t support their practice of auctioning everything out either since they know demand is skyhigh. They don`t do it to help people make a good deal since it can never be a good deal. They do it to earn the most money on each Blade.
55 BTC for one Blade is just too much. Thats $7800 in todays price. It will take people about 3 months to just come out even. With BFL shipping units each day, with the many DYI Avalon projects out, its a really big risk.
First, ASICMINER is a business. It is their goal to make money. They aren't twisting our arms for BTC. I trust that soon they will sell their blades at a fixed price. For now they are just trying to acquire as much profit as possible. Second, the blades are expensive but it is a gamble. I am gambling that I will make more BTC with this blade than I could by ordering from BFL or Avalon. In reality I will likely order from both companies once their shipping times become predictable. |
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If it's like the standard 80% lowers I've seen from big operations you can complete it with a drill press.
I know a guy that did one with a hand drill and a dremel. Ain't pretty but it shoots reliably.
I've shot an AR-10 that had a 80% lower finished with a hand drill. It definitely wasn't pretty but it did the job. Considering how all the gun regulation bills were killed off(that I know of) I imagine we'll get back to 2012 prices soon enough. Just something to consider. |
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Yeah.. go fuck yourself. I understand what you are doing is fair and legal but the sentiment stands. |
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Using HD 7950s @ 600 MH/s card @ $450 card(this includes all supporting hardware such as MB, PSU, risers, etc) and the blade @ 12GH/s(overclocked) you're looking at roughly $9,000 to get an equivalent setup in GPUs. I'm sure some of this is off a bit(probably stuff 6 cards into a board with a lower cost/card) but it is a rough estimate.
Keep in mind you can resell the GPUs when you are done..
I wonder what the GPU market will look like after everyone who buys ASICS dumps their GPUs. Wonder if I can get some cheap for gaming.  We make up a tiny portion of the GPU market. You can get some cheap HD 7970s though on eBay if you are willing to take the risk of someone shipping a DOA card. I bought a number of HD 5970s on eBay for $50-100 less than what people wanted on forums and easily $200 less than what Newegg wanted. |
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It's not at all clear that the winners of this latest auction will ever achieve ROI, especially with BFL and Avalon releasing.
It's a gamble. We'll know much more in ~1 month. I'm gambling that neither BFL or Avalon will deliver significant amounts of hash power to customers in the next 30 days. I hope that by then I'll be halfway to my ROI. I could stand to lose a bit of BTC but considering how I mined all this BTC on hardware that has already hit ROI a few times, I don't feel to bad about this. Now I just hope Friedcat doesn't release ANOTHER batch of these boards too soon. |
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