[RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread

[vapourminer]

a jalapeno is stock 8   oops 5 Gh/s @ 40 watts. I flashed mine to 8 Gh/s at 60 watts and voided the warranty.

mine was a 2nd day order and I was one of the 1st to get one so I only slighty got burned by BFL on that. but still got burned, remember that.

just saying there is NO comparison to sidehacks gear when you look at it vs a jalapeno. 40/60 watts  vs 5 watts. way more more hashes per second. small, no external PSU vs stand alone. I can run it stand alone on my notebook. cgminer used by both.

my howto post about a jalapeno with pictures, screenshots , how to flash it with an AVR Dragon programmer, temps recorded with a IR temp gun, and how to properly cool and run it @ 8 GH/s is one of the 1st few here on the forum and still on the forum.

look for it I wont pollute this thread; its sidehacks thread. Im just talking hardware here and someone else brought up the jalapeno Im just posting the real deal on it vs what you might hear from other threads.

TLDR: sidehack is not BFL and his compac is not a jalapeno.

[sidehack]

Because it's looking like nobody's gonna swoop in and buy everything ever, but I've had a few people asking about picking up more than ten, I'm relaxing the hard limit of ten per customer.

I also have updated the first post with a current count of sales. I have some outstanding invoices and bulk orders updating as sales keep going, but as of right now it's exactly what it says it is - the number of sticks which have been paid for so far.

[HerbPean]

Because it's looking like nobody's gonna swoop in and buy everything ever, but I've had a few people asking about picking up more than ten, I'm relaxing the hard limit of ten per customer.

I also have updated the first post with a current count of sales. I have some outstanding invoices and bulk orders updating as sales keep going, but as of right now it's exactly what it says it is - the number of sticks which have been paid for so far.

Almost half sold and more to come, it's a great achievement !

[sidehack]

If by "almost half" you mean "slightly less than a fourth" then you're correct, it's "almost half".

[HerbPean]

If by "almost half" you mean "slightly less than a fourth" then you're correct, it's "almost half".

Yeah I misread the information. I tough it was 240 + Queue ... but the Q = 240.

My bad ;-)

[sidehack]

Yeah, 240 is the total and the additional numbers are the per-queue breakdown.

[AJRGale]

need more advertisement? mentioned on other forums? reddit even? I think its the chicken/egg scenario, yes, you had the demos out, but since they are not available to obtain yet, people are sitting back and waiting.

on the otherhand, wishlist (waiting on my next paycheck), 20 more to buy up, get them on ebay or something (or just strap to every computer I have here..)

[Jake36]

If I done everything right  , just ordered 5 of them.

[FlipperBTC]

If I were to run one of these, and get at least 8GH/s from it, and I joined a pool - how many bitcoins would I be looking at? A few pennies a day? A dollar a day? I know it's hard to guess accurately, but I'd like a rough estimate. Also, how exactly would I go about increasing it's hashing power to 16GH/s or more?

[Mikestang]

You'd be looking at significantly less than pennies a day, more like decimals of decimals of a penny per day.  There are many calculators that will answer your first question.

The second questions is likely answered in any documentation that comes with the stick, and I believe in the review thread for the sticks as well.

[sidehack]

TheRealSteve's review is exceptionally thorough.

[FlipperBTC]

You'd be looking at significantly less than pennies a day, more like decimals of decimals of a penny per day.  There are many calculators that will answer your first question.

The second questions is likely answered in any documentation that comes with the stick, and I believe in the review thread for the sticks as well.

Those calculators don't consider that you're joining a pool.

[alienesb]

If I were to run one of these, and get at least 8GH/s from it, and I joined a pool - how many bitcoins would I be looking at? A few pennies a day? A dollar a day? I know it's hard to guess accurately, but I'd like a rough estimate. Also, how exactly would I go about increasing it's hashing power to 16GH/s or more?

Solo mine for a lottery payout.

[TheRealSteve]

Those calculators don't consider that you're joining a pool.

The vast majority of them do, and will let you enter a pool fee.  I'm not sure how many let you specify the payout system, though.. but most payout system differences are mostly subject to a pool's luck; which you can't predict, so just the pool fee is reasonably sensible.   PPS and similar being exceptions, which is akin to calculations without any consideration for payout system at all.

[AJRGale]

If I were to run one of these, and get at least 8GH/s from it, and I joined a pool - how many bitcoins would I be looking at? A few pennies a day? A dollar a day? I know it's hard to guess accurately, but I'd like a rough estimate. Also, how exactly would I go about increasing it's hashing power to 16GH/s or more?

I'll give you an idea on this: on kano.is, with my 180GH/s i got about 50c a day or 0.001btc. so if you divide that by 10, so 18GH/s, that would make it approx. 5c/day, or 0.0001btc, divide that by half again, so its 9GH/s that's 2.5c/day or 0.00005btc/day..

so about 1/200 days you might RoI..

[philipma1957]

or you can run 2 workers at kano's pool and run one at ck's solo pool.

⅔  steady earnings  ⅓ a shot at a block.


As for getting 16 gh  

 you need a stud hub or a dual power cable.

I have 5 of these cables on order.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/221661361513?

these will combine your usb hub's ports to provide the power needed for 13gh to 16gh.

here is the long review thread ton of info

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086011.0


I use this for now  so that 2 ports are bridged.  I can go to 250 freq.

 I am waiting for an easy download on cgminer to go over freq 250  others rebuilt the software and got to freq 300



amps are .78 volts are 4.87-4.88  freq = 200 gh is about 10.93

[Searing]

If I were to run one of these, and get at least 8GH/s from it, and I joined a pool - how many bitcoins would I be looking at? A few pennies a day? A dollar a day? I know it's hard to guess accurately, but I'd like a rough estimate. Also, how exactly would I go about increasing it's hashing power to 16GH/s or more?

i used www.tradeblock.com and got like 11 bucks for the year at zero cost and zero electric costs heh .it is for fun folks.....i also have a bitseed v2 node coming
just stuff to keep me on the network and flashy lights lcd's etc in that home mining will be dead for me soon when the knc titan(s) eventually get to their 'doorstop
status' that they seem to long for

so sad but stuff to feel like I'm still doing something even if not too much (I probably will get the bitfury or whatever science project btc miner light bulbs too just to
frame out my lame existence after mining scrypt and btc ..is completely kaput for me......alas

[alh]

@sidehack

Did you sell enough to actually build these and not lose your shirt?

[sidehack]

I haven't sold enough to build the full batch, so I'll get parts for as many as I can. Once the existing orders are shipped I'll probably have 50-100 standing stock for immediate sale, which I can roll forward into more parts. I need to sell 600 to cover the material cost for the full 1000 batch, including PCBs, heatsinks and what was borrowed for ASICs. I've still got about a week and a half to gather preorder money before buying the rest of the parts in whatever quantity I can.

[sidehack]

Updated totals. We're now past 250 sticks paid for. I do have some outstanding invoices for several more, but what's listed is what's paid for.