I wondered that too, but the best I can come up with is that there may be a slightly reduced mental functionality, perhaps he looks somewhat like his avatar.
Protip bitpop, if you can't think of something to say, there isn't much point making a blank post. xD

I'm pretty sure it is, although I wasn't going to call it. He's in South Africa, and Pirateat40 is in Texas, so their markets don't really overlap when selling to local people on the ground.

As to why the buyers will pay such a premium - well I still haven't figured that out.

SLC is a scam, so it doesn't count.

I might note that when I tried the fastest version on my unit, cgminer showed half speed, the U tanked, and the share submission rate was like 1 or 2 per minute, but no errors showed. Apparently this is because the API command to discover the error rate is not known and so can't be shown in cgminer. If you use EasyMiner to run a diagnostic, you will probably find that it is giving errors, even if it isn't actually throttling.

Yes, and from other comments made by BFL, it sounds to me like they might have convinced Altera to spin up another run of wafers based on the old masks for those chips, and not have gotten them NOS or any such thing.

This is the best I can find from the BAMT mega thread... sorry I can't help more I need to go now.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.msg903244#msg903244

My best guess is because since the Singles are reprogrammable, they plan to use them all over again in some unrelated application. Even if the chips are kind of ancient, they are high performance.

I don't recognize that error, but lodcrappo isn't around very often... I somehow doubt that that error is related to the choice of card, but to answer your earlier question - yes a 5970 should work fine.

Perhaps you can try another USB on another rig?

When you boot BAMT you should get a graphical screen anyways, not a command prompt. Wonder if it already hates you because of the 7970. Try a different card just for grins and see what happens.

Listen, I am right at the top of the list, and do you hear me bitching? No. While we all agree that the marketing materials (website) could be adjusted to reflect something accurate, I'm not asking for a refund for fuck's sake. If you were around when they first showed up, you would have gotten in at the pre-order price of $499 anyway, like I did. You are late, so that is your loss.

You also had plenty of opportunity to read some of the dozens of threads here about them, and make an informed decision, but since you didn't bother I am going to call this bullshit right now.

Cool website.

Do 7970s even work with BAMT?

I've completely lost your train of thought. Let me know when you are sober again.

Perhaps so, I was just recalling some Cali installations that are being removed because the fines weren't being paid and were losing money.

Why are you asking us?

If people pay the tickets, that is.

They support all pools with the exception of P2Pool, using either cgminer/bfgminer or ufasoft's miner. Bitminter software also supports them, but can only be used with their pool.

LOL I forgot about that one. I wondered how long it was going to be before he lost interest and abandoned it, or got it shut down or whatever happened to it.

What I mean is that there are several users that show up literally months after closure of TH asking for their money, and I find it hard to believe that they have taken that long to payout. Also common to these users is a fairly bad grasp of English and insistent posting here on a public forum that isn't related to the business. I'm not trying to be personal, just an observation that I am making.

Yep. For mining with its minimal bandwidth, it should be fine. Has worked in my other rigs as well, you can chain 1x as well as 16x or combine them however you like.