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Frizz23
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March 28, 2013, 10:48:21 PM |
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BFL_Josh (Shoutbox) - Things are going well, I should have a pretty big update tomorrow.
Geee ... what will that be? Lots of yadda yadda - and a new shipping date. Sometime in April. Which is of course just another guesstimate that's never gonna materialize ... |
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March 28, 2013, 10:53:44 PM |
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I believe they have designed and tested the water cooling system for the rig.  Of course without the real rig because they are still waiting for the new PCB to arrive. |
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Frizz23
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March 28, 2013, 10:58:23 PM |
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I believe they have designed and tested the water cooling system for the rig. Of course without the real rig because they are still waiting for the new PCB to arrive. You mean instead of a Box of Fans they now have a Box of Water?   |
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FuzzyBear
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March 28, 2013, 11:16:15 PM |
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FAKE_BFL_UPDATE - BFL got the chip working and they are pleased to announce that they have met their power requirements of 1GH per Watt and hence will NOT have to pay any BTC to charity  .. oh and shipping will commence around mid april = start of may... second waffer and all other chips have been bumped so basically BFL will just unleash 100's of TH on the network at once so no one will get any ROI or advantage... but it OK as BFL met their target and produced an ASIC so don't get a scammer tag |
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billotronic
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March 28, 2013, 11:39:24 PM |
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3/29 : BFL_Josh announces he was indeed the second gunman on the Grassy Knoll.
(just as feasible at this point, right?
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Rishodi
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March 29, 2013, 09:00:15 AM |
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Link to updateSummary: They claim to now have working prototypes, but the problem is that the power consumption is missing their goal of 1W/GH/s by 70%+. The units weren't designed for such high power requirements, so they have to underclock them, thus reducing the hashrate. So, I wonder which charity or charities will be the lucky recipient(s) of 1000 BTC?
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Korbman
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March 29, 2013, 12:06:23 PM |
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Link to updateSummary: They claim to now have working prototypes, but the problem is that the power consumption is missing their goal of 1W/GH/s by 70%+. The units weren't designed for such high power requirements, so they have to underclock them, thus reducing the hashrate. So, I wonder which charity or charities will be the lucky recipient(s) of 1000 BTC? Bummer. Not sure if anyone knows this, but how far are they underclocking the ASICs? My guess would be back to the initial 40GH/s they advertised during the first months. Still 1.7W/GH/s still isn't bad (assuming I read that correctly...still early here  ). |
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Frizz23
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March 29, 2013, 12:14:07 PM |
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Still 1.7W/GH/s still isn't bad (assuming I read that correctly...still early here ). It's just the casing, heatsink and fan are not designed for so much heat. So don't be surprised if you smell burnt plastic 30 seconds after you turned your BFL ASIC on - and a big flame after 60 seconds ...   |
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March 29, 2013, 08:53:02 PM |
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Still 1.7W/GH/s still isn't bad (assuming I read that correctly...still early here ). It's just the casing, heatsink and fan are not designed for so much heat. So don't be surprised if you smell burnt plastic 30 seconds after you turned your BFL ASIC on - and a big flame after 60 seconds ... indeed 7 months late arpil few days away then comes cock lover josh aka inaba aka eclipse mininnig scumm and says well we maneged to make soem chips workd at 200 watts will shiip to manage ur order aka 3 4 units with multiples units worst then bfl just so we can say we cshippend somehting but cant comit to shipping date as of yet after 7 month?s this fakin monkey of a josh should be raped in the ass if his straight I am not happy about the delay but, how can I put this, tiberiusing his julius ceaser door.. Thats just wrong... |
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PatMan
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March 30, 2013, 01:46:53 AM |
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It's gonna be a big announcement about a big announcement near the end of the year. Maybe. If they're still around then.
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March 30, 2013, 02:28:52 AM |
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Well I bought a 1500gh/s rig and a 60gh/s rig from them.... No risk no reward man.... And I bought a PrimeAsic 80gh/s machine and 2 Avalon ASICs 85gh/s The big announcement is they are testing and tho they hash at the proper hash rate the power consumption is higher than they state which I believe they are fixing. You guys should be a little more patience as I'm sure they mentioned almost posting a video of the test and said they will this weekend. This is a tough market to be in and it's gonna work. Just don't be the last to buy and be left on an island talking to a volleyball once they prove to work. Hey, everyone doubted Abalon ASIC from the start. Had you not and bought 30 of them for 1200 you would be dancing around naked. But hey they cost $8k now.. Get ready, the crow is cooking and almost ready to eat. 1.810TH/S of Mining soon... What shall I buy? Hmmmmmmm maybe a unicorn to go next to the table with my machines? |
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March 30, 2013, 02:57:45 AM |
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Well I bought a 1500gh/s rig and a 60gh/s rig from them.... No risk no reward man.... And I bought a PrimeAsic 80gh/s machine and 2 Avalon ASICs 85gh/s The big announcement is they are testing and tho they hash at the proper hash rate the power consumption is higher than they state which I believe they are fixing. You guys should be a little more patience as I'm sure they mentioned almost posting a video of the test and said they will this weekend. This is a tough market to be in and it's gonna work. Just don't be the last to buy and be left on an island talking to a volleyball once they prove to work. Hey, everyone doubted Abalon ASIC from the start. Had you not and bought 30 of them for 1200 you would be dancing around naked. But hey they cost $8k now.. Get ready, the crow is cooking and almost ready to eat. 1.810TH/S of Mining soon... What shall I buy? Hmmmmmmm maybe a unicorn to go next to the table with my machines? I've talked to patients on the psych ward with 5150s who made more sense. I'm going to guess paint chips as a kid  |
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March 30, 2013, 03:55:19 PM |
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Sadly that 160W was only at 34GH/s IIRC. Way above target, but still lower than Avalon. I want to see what the final numbers are. |
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PatMan
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March 30, 2013, 04:23:13 PM |
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Well I bought a 1500gh/s rig and a 60gh/s rig from them.... No risk no reward man.... And I bought a PrimeAsic 80gh/s machine and 2 Avalon ASICs 85gh/s The big announcement is they are testing and tho they hash at the proper hash rate the power consumption is higher than they state which I believe they are fixing. You guys should be a little more patience as I'm sure they mentioned almost posting a video of the test and said they will this weekend. This is a tough market to be in and it's gonna work. Just don't be the last to buy and be left on an island talking to a volleyball once they prove to work. Hey, everyone doubted Abalon ASIC from the start. Had you not and bought 30 of them for 1200 you would be dancing around naked. But hey they cost $8k now.. Get ready, the crow is cooking and almost ready to eat. 1.810TH/S of Mining soon... What shall I buy? Hmmmmmmm maybe a unicorn to go next to the table with my machines? Scammer tag for this guy please......more details here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148832.580 |
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k9quaint
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March 30, 2013, 05:32:37 PM |
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Is BFL is the most elaborate April Fools joke ever?
I shudder to think of the massive amounts of money that could have been made simply by buying BTC @ ~$5 each (last year around June) and holding them instead of pre-ordering a mini-rig from BFL.
$30,000.00 / $5 is 6000 BTC, which at today's value would be $546,000.00. Grats on missing out on half a million dollars.
Just think, what if BFL horded their BTC?
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Korbman
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March 30, 2013, 08:12:55 PM |
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Sadly that 160W was only at 34GH/s IIRC. Way above target, but still lower than Avalon. I want to see what the final numbers are. At this point I don't even care. Just start getting them out the door to people who want them, and then make it up to them later by swapping to the fixed product. The difficulty is low enough where power consumption doesn't much matter (and will be for a while)..just look at Avalon |
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Frizz23
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March 30, 2013, 08:30:36 PM |
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Sadly that 160W was only at 34GH/s IIRC.
So it's 280W for 60GH/s. Slightly above the 60W BFL promised. Way above target, but still lower than Avalon. I want to see what the final numbers are.
Thing is: Avalon can handle the heat. BFL? 280W with a heatsink the size of a CPU cooler? Not so sure ... Can you spot the difference?  |
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