Buy a FPGA in Amazon.com? Can you help me?

[neoivan1987]

Hi, i want to buy a FPGA miner in Amazon.com or another website in USA. Can you recommend a link or model? Thanks

 

[mjc]

BFL Single then order an ASIC Upgrade.  Right now the BFL Single gets about 832 MH/s.  I have 2.  Both together earn 0.23 BTC a day and with ASIC miners coming on line that will diminished quickly.

How to figure how much MH/s it takes to earn 1 BTC : http://bitcoinsbs.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/how-much-mhash-does-it-take-to-mine-1-btc/

I have been running both since late October.  I have earned about 32.5 BTC.  I'll be sending them back the end of next month in order to receive two of my three ASIC miners.  It was worth it to do that back then, but with the ASIC coming online, you might not even cover the shipping costs each way.

[dullmoment]

Makes sense mjc, but where to find a BFL Single?  Still looking... 

[neoivan1987]

I want one for educational pruporses. I know that FPGA will be not profitable in few months

[b!z]

I want one for educational pruporses. I know that FPGA will be not profitable in few months

Educate yourself with an ASIC instead, you'll make profit while you do it too

[Bicknellski]

I want one for educational pruporses. I know that FPGA will be not profitable in few months

I am buying some for our school to do exactly that. Altcoins are always a nice place to learn.

[neoivan1987]

We prefer FPGAs because they are multipurpose. For educational reason. What kind of FPGA do you recommend. I want to buy a kit in Amazon.com, i can pay between 300 to 500$. I want some kit that i can use for mining bitcoins

[celkaris]

i've been running the ztex 1.15x board for months without interruption, never had any problem with it (under linux 3.2.0 with ztex miner: http://www.ztex.de/btcminer/).

http://shop.ztex.de/product_info.php?products_id=66&language=en

Order was processed in less than 24 hours, effectively shipped in 4 days (europe to europe).

[pinger]

Take care of you fpga's, one day could be on a museum.

[mjc]

I would reach out to BFL and ask them.  They do not seem to have them listed.  They are getting ready to start shipping the new ASICs in the next week or two, so I would expect them to be busy. 

That said, in the next month or so they are going to have hundreds if not thousands of spare FPGA units that we upgraded, like mine.  They will likely sell them for cheap.  Keep an eye out for them.