Philip great review.
Honest question though, why are still promoting group buys of the Avalon 6 with the known issues. You have the connections and people to be able to get the necessary items to counter the issue but others don't unless it is being offered to others? The Avalon 6 is quiet but hashes under the S7 by 1ths and the S7 for the most part has been stable, even though loud, but doesn't have a known fire hazard. I am just thinking that unless additional connectors are added to the design, Avalon should be holding sales unless a solution is found or the issue is stated on the description. Just thinking out loud....
The group buy was shut down when bitmaintech dropped prices and gave out 100$ coupons.
Every group buy I did the avalon 6 sold at a lower price then the s-7 the day we did the sale.
The s-7 got very competitive in price with the 100 usd coupons. so I stopped the group buy.
as for one avalons being bad gear and s-7's being good gear they both have lots of flaws.
I run 7 avalon 6's
2 on a 2880 break out board with sidehacks cable mods 0 issues
1 on a 1200 watt platinum seasonic using 18 awg cables 0 issues
1 on a 1200 watt gold fsp aurum using 16 awg cables 0 issues
1 on a 1200 watt gold ocz using 16 awg cables 0 issues
1 on 2 psus a silverstone 700 watt titanium psu and a 1000 watt corsair rm 1000 gold 0 issues
1 on 2 psus a 650 gold seasonic with 18 awg cables and a 1000 watt fractal platinum with 18 awg cables 0 issues
So I don't consider the avalon 6 to be bad gear. think of a sports car that needs high octane gas. and the 2880 breakout boards are not high octane gas as the jacks struggle when you do avalon 6's
now to be fair maybe all the other psu's will fail like the 2880 breakout board failed I would then say that the avalon 6's really have a problem.