Question on Avalon chips

[nickha0]

Well I'm not able to post in mining yet, so I guess I'll ask this here.

I'm considering buying 10 Avalon ASICs chips. Each one, according to the seller, has a hash rate of 282 MH/s, for a total of 2.83 GH/s. This is drastically more than my current feeble hash rate, mainly considering that my computer was made for gaming and I haven't optimized it for bitcoin mining, which I've really just started to get in to.

So if someone could explain to me what process I would have to go through upon buying these chips in order to have a functioning mining rig, and whether or not it's worth it, that would be super helpful. Keep in mind I have a very limited knowledge on how to build PC's as my computer was prebuilt, though I have some friends that can help me with setting it up.

[choppa]

From my understanding you can't just buy the chips, you must buy a standalone unit. See their features page here http://launch.avalon-asics.com/#features

Also they manufacture these units in batches and batch 3 hasn't started taking orders yet.

[maxmint]

From my understanding you can't just buy the chips, you must buy a standalone unit. See their features page here http://launch.avalon-asics.com/#features

Also they manufacture these units in batches and batch 3 hasn't started taking orders yet.

You can buy chips, Avalon is selling them in batches of 10,000 here: http://store.avalon-asics.com/?product=avalon-asic-chips-10000
Also, there's a group buy running here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177827.0