Bitmaintech Antminer S1 Upgrade Kit

[Devonian]

Well, well, well its out there now for £160 a pair.  Delivery from 20 Sept 2014.  450Gh/s.

[Coopster8888]

https://bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=0002014081313175081722f1GeUO063F

[theweiss]

I have a couple S1's and I'd be interested to hear from anyone who does this upgrade.  Interesting for sure.

[pekatete]

I don't know what to think of this S1 upgrade kit. It essentially is buying a new S3, albeit at a reduced price on a "full" S3 shipping on the same date.
When the upgrade idea was first mooted, I thought it'd take the shape of a chip-side heatsink (including the votage regulators) as opposed to an upgrade that amounts "junking" the old boards, or even a controller board that allowed for chain-linking more than the standard two boards and running them under-volted / under-clocked.

Though it may make BTC sense by the time these hit the market, I can not help but feel there has been a missed opportunity here. I may want (and possibly get) the upgrade, but I will also want to keep using the old boards.

[sla73]

I am going to upgrade my 3 x S1's, would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc... 

[pekatete]

.... would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc...  

I think this is the trick bitmain missed! Rather than offering an upgrade that amounts to junking the old boards, I'd have been happy with chaining WITH undervolting too!

[allcoinminer]

.... would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc...  

I think this is the trick bitmain missed! Rather than offering an upgrade that amounts to junking the old boards, I'd have been happy with chaining WITH undervolting too!

I have the same view. Checkout this thread and hope this will be relevant here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671128.0