ASICMINER: Erupter Blades. Review, comments, photos, and discussion!

[alexuk]

Now that the auction has finished, im kicking off this thread for feedback of the first 10 Erupters!

Thanks John got handling he auction, and not to mention FriedCat and the ASICMINER crew for the Erupters!

As soon as my device arrives - ill post videos + photos and a review!

THE WINNERS:

alexuk	BTC76
eb3full	BTC76
waterpowered	BTC75
LainZ	BTC75
Batteryfire	BTC75
Pinwheel	BTC75
Pinwheel	BTC75
pixel75	BTC75
MacDschie	BTC75
MacDschie	BTC75

Introduction
This is the first round of a series of auctions for Bitfountain products. 10 Block Erupter blades, the same as the ones used in ASICMINER's actual deployment, are available for bidding in this round. We start with this experimental auction to collect the user criticisms for improving our products, as well as the market reaction for deciding how to release the hashpower over the world.

The Blades
Each of them outputs at least 10G hashes per second. They work well separately, yet are extensible to larger scale. Our entire farm is built up from them. The blades in our mining farm have been running during the last two months. From our experience, they are stable and robust. We list the key features of this product here:

ASIC-Powered Efficiency Each blade consists of 32 hashing chips. It has the baseline speed of 10GHash/s, the rated speed of 10.752GHash/s, and the maximum speed of 12.829GHash/s with overclocking and proper cooling. The power consumption is 83Watts per blade in room temperature on rated clock and voltage.

Modularity Each blades consists of a hasher, a power module, and an Ethernet controller. Each of them is easily replacable.

Independence The blades can be directly plugged to the internet and mine after configuration, with no host PCs needed.

Quick Installation The setup is almost self-explained. After assembly and powering up, access 192.168.1.254:8000 from your PC for configuration.

Compactness
  Hasher size: 233mm x 116mm with a 227mm x 100mm x 19mm heat sink attached to its back
  Power module size: 192mm x 89mm
  Ethernet controller size: 86mm x 40mm

Safety Fusing and polarity protection are built in the power module.

Notes

Heat Dissipation Our blades work well un-crowded without fans on room temperature, but it is recommended to supply some airflow to the heatsink.

Over-Voltage For overclocking, you will need to adjust the trimmers on the power module to increase the voltage output.

Power Supply Please make sure you have an external source of 12V DC voltage output and at least 10A current output to power up one blade.

Internet You need the internet access via network cables if you want to plug the blades directly to the internet.

Warranty Free replacement of dysfunctional blades. We also pay the re-shipping fee from our place to yours.

Photos

Complete Album - http://imgur.com/a/PkOcu#3

The Block Erupter Blade



FAQ

1. What is the delivery time for this? Do you have current stock on hand for immediate shipping after the auction has concluded?

Immediate delivery. We have current stock on hand.

2.

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Does it mean that these blades are different from the 64-chip ones found in these pictures?:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg1493791#msg1493791

They are the same with these pictures. They are all 32-hashing chip ones. The smaller chip near each hashing chip is the 74LVC126 buffer.

3. Are there any sample photos of the blades? (Note that these photos can be reused at a future auction so getting some will be great)

Yes. They will be provided soon.

3 i. Are these just raw boards with no chassis? (answered easily with the photos)

Yes. The boards come without case.

4. Does the direct network connection support stratum?

No, a stratum proxy is necessary.

5. Are backup pools implemented?

Yes. The board will switch to the backup pool if the primary pool fails to give the work within the timeout.

6. Just to confirm, is the boards shipping from Hong Kong?

Hong Kong or Shenzhen. Most probably from Hong Kong.

7. Warranty period?

Six months from the day of shipping.

8. Software of the blades?

Written from scratch by one of our partner companies. It runs on the PIC18F67J60 MCU on our ethernet controller.

[alexuk]

good luck making the bitcoin back! lol

should take approx 6-7 months!

[nsfsj]

good luck making the bitcoin back! lol

Time is of the essence. Probably as much of a possibility of making his BTCs back as one who buys a 90GH/s received in august.

EDIT: For the same price I might add. Difficulty will rise quite steep so 10GH/s now >> 100GH/s within months.

[Bitsaurus]

So 76BTC buys 10GH/s with low power usage?

I'll lease my 12GH/s worth of 7970s for 4 years electricity paid for 100BTC 

Other than being rack mountable is there something I'm missing?

[shibaji]

good luck making the bitcoin back! lol

should take approx 6-7 months!

Good luck with that. This will indeed go down the history books of bitcoin, in the hall of suckers.

[relm9]

With the possibility of BFL actually shipping these may never make their BTC back. Even then, it's a stretch since Avalon is deploying more chips.

[StringTheory]

I'm interested to see if these will pay off or not.  76 BTC seems like so much to me.  Best of luck to you investors.

[John Self]

They'll be lucky to make back the investment.

[computerparts]

That auction got stupid real fast. It's pitiful. Just throw out the word asic and people lose all common sense, rationality, and throw their money out the window.

[johnyj]

That auction got stupid real fast. It's pitiful. Just throw out the word asic and people lose all common sense, rationality, and throw their money out the window.

The spirit is: If you don't own an ASIC miner, you are not a true bitcoiner 

[shibaji]

That auction got stupid real fast. It's pitiful. Just throw out the word asic and people lose all common sense, rationality, and throw their money out the window.

The spirit is: If you don't own an ASIC miner, you are not a true bitcoiner 

Hey - no need to go that far. Just keep on mining with cpuminer - it will not produce any coin, but it is still an asic miner!

[nebulus]

I'm interested to see if these will pay off or not.  76 BTC seems like so much to me.  Best of luck to you investors.

One day Smithsonian will pay great bucks for these...

[JimiQ84]

C'mon people, it will make BTCs back. At most in a year, but 6-7 months seems more precise timeframe.

Difficulty won't rise exponentialy forever. In a year it can be at 300M, which will make AM still profitable (energy-wise).

[LazyOtto]

That auction got stupid real fast. It's pitiful. Just throw out the word asic and people lose all common sense, rationality, and throw their money out the window.

Well, at one level there is some rationality.

Just comparing to my setup, they paid 4x the cost (in USD equivalent) for 4x the hash rate per second as I did for FPGAs. IOWs, they paid about $825 USD per gh/s. So did I for the FPGAs.

And, I think, their energy cost per gh/s is less than half of mine. (Maybe closer to a fourth.)

However, my FPGAs have been constantly mining since blocks were worth 50btc each. Oh, and starting when difficulty was about a fourth what it is now.

-- edit - Improved some phrasing, estimates, in the third paragraph.

[shibaji]

C'mon people, it will make BTCs back. At most in a year, but 6-7 months seems more precise timeframe.

Difficulty won't rise exponentialy forever. In a year it can be at 300M, which will make AM still profitable (energy-wise).

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[mrb]

C'mon people, it will make BTCs back. At most in a year, but 6-7 months seems more precise timeframe.

Difficulty won't rise exponentialy forever. In a year it can be at 300M, which will make AM still profitable (energy-wise).

Difficulty does not have to rise exponentially forever. It just has to rise 35% month-over-month, for merely 12 months, and the buyers will never make their money back: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178275.msg1889860#msg1889860

For the record, 35% per month for 12 months would bring the network to ~2000 Thash/s total, which half of it is already being built or planned by various entities (100TH-Mine, BFL, ASICMINER, OEM Avalon Chip Customers, etc).

[seleme]

I'm, pretty sure that auction was clear manipulation to rise Asicminer share price, no sane man would pay 76 btc for 10GH device.

And they run operation spectacularly, shares more than doubled in a day or two.

The amount of manipulation and corruption in bitcoin community these days is staggering.

[mrSprinkles]

C'mon people, it will make BTCs back. At most in a year, but 6-7 months seems more precise timeframe.

Difficulty won't rise exponentialy forever. In a year it can be at 300M, which will make AM still profitable (energy-wise).

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think your font and word choice just gave me a hernia.

[turtle83]

I'm interested to see if these will pay off or not.  76 BTC seems like so much to me.  Best of luck to you investors.

i think these guys are betting on BTC in the future is worth more than BTC right now...

[nsfsj]

I'm interested to see if these will pay off or not.  76 BTC seems like so much to me.  Best of luck to you investors.

i think these guys are betting on BTC in the future is worth more than BTC right now...

In which case the 75 BTC would be worth more as well...