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[greaterninja]

Gosh, why did we work so hard to get them fully working?  We could have been selling non-functional boards ages ago!

That would still beat the competition in terms of delivery....

I'd buy halffast boards today over full-fast boards next month

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

Better than advertised always sounds good to me.  

[Trongersoll]

Quality - Meeting, and/or sometimes exceeding, the customer's expectations. 

[-Redacted-]

He's just under-spec'ed the boards is all  - Dave should be selling them as 30 Gh/s +/- 16%  

[kaerf]

He's just under-spec'ed the boards is all  - Dave should be selling them as 30 Gh/s +/- 16%  

grrrr...you woke some anger i've suppressed for that incompetent company that still hasn't delivered a year after ordering from them. negative roi ftl. i really hope the images on bitfurystrikesback.com ring true and bfl gets mauled by all the new comers.

[DyslexicZombei]

Gosh, why did we work so hard to get them fully working?  We could have been selling non-functional boards ages ago!

That would still beat the competition in terms of delivery....

I'd buy halffast boards today over full-fast boards next month

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

That's all well & good that there seems to be an overclocking effect that compensates for dead or underperforming chips. The danger comes from long term overclocking of the other chips and the excesss heat/voltage generated from the overclock leading to prematurely failing ASICs and other components.

As a lot of us IT system builders & designers know when overclocking: heat is the enemy.

At the lab I used to work for, we had a saying about blown or burnt electronics: "When the magic smoke comes out of the box, it'll no longer work."

[bkpduke]

I would still almost sell my first born to OC these boards.  Cooling is not an issue for me. 

[tacotime]

I'm trying to pay with BTC and it's giving me an error connecting to the payment provider.

[tom99]

I'm trying to pay with BTC and it's giving me an error connecting to the payment provider.

  Some people said work ok and not work for some people.   Can you re-try?  what is exchange rate for btc on bitpay?

[jflowers]

Try again - it was giving me the same error - just got back from lunch and it went through (5 min ago).

I'm trying to pay with BTC and it's giving me an error connecting to the payment provider.

[tacotime]

Same problem.    I will keep clicking it I guess

edit: Got through after about 30 clicks.  Now I have 15 minutes, which isn't enough time to get to my offsite wallet.  Sigh.  I'll have to do this in a bit.

[Sitarow]

Same problem.    I will keep clicking it I guess

edit: Got through after about 30 clicks.  Now I have 15 minutes, which isn't enough time to get to my offsite wallet.  Sigh.  I'll have to do this in a bit.

Should be worth the effort

[buzzdave]

Same problem.    I will keep clicking it I guess

edit: Got through after about 30 clicks.  Now I have 15 minutes, which isn't enough time to get to my offsite wallet.  Sigh.  I'll have to do this in a bit.

If BitPay gives you trouble, run the order as Bank Transfer, indicate a note Pay in BTC and Kat will send you a BitPay invoice - that will give you plenty of time to access your wallet...

Sorry for the inconvenience.  I've seen this issue with BitPay before - I'll ask them if they are aware of it.

[Foofighter]

Gosh, why did we work so hard to get them fully working?  We could have been selling non-functional boards ages ago!

That would still beat the competition in terms of delivery....

I'd buy halffast boards today over full-fast boards next month

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

Any info on the chip temperatures on this prototype?

[buzzdave]

Gosh, why did we work so hard to get them fully working?  We could have been selling non-functional boards ages ago!

That would still beat the competition in terms of delivery....

I'd buy halffast boards today over full-fast boards next month

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

Any info on the chip temperatures on this prototype?

Nope - I don't think Tytus has hit it with a temp gun yet.  I'm buying a thermal imager for our boards, so I'll know soon enough...

[Xian01]

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

 Any chance you can post a CGMiner (or whichever miner you are using) screenshot of a 400gH/s product in action ? Genuinely curious, and excited with this product offering.

 Also, as I understand it, the products becoming available will be allocated to your 100TH endeavor first ?
 
 Does this mean that August orders will not ship until you have all 100TH online for yourself, or will the products be divided between customers and your mine if it looks like production delays may prevent your initial 100TH allocation arriving on schedule ?

 Cheers.

[tom99]

   I am sure BF will ship out at end of Aug. or before Aug. and BF wont want anyone to cancel orders like buyers who paid big $ for 400Gh/s.

[bkpduke]

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

 Any chance you can post a CGMiner (or whichever miner you are using) screenshot of a 400gH/s product in action ? Genuinely curious, and excited with this product offering.

 Also, as I understand it, the products becoming available will be allocated to your 100TH endeavor first ?
 
 Does this mean that August orders will not ship until you have all 100TH online for yourself, or will the products be divided between customers and your mine if it looks like production delays may prevent your initial 100TH allocation arriving on schedule ?

 Cheers.

Why don't you read the thread?  Just about everything you asked has ALREADY been answered.

[buzzdave]

The proto rig is rock-solid after 24 hours of running at the new chip.conf.  

These asics are curious critters - if you have a bad chip on a board, software will disable the chip in config.  This causes adjacent chips to see a little more power and therefore get a slight overclock.  For example most chips are producing around 1.5 - 1.6 GH/s actual nonces.  But some chips are at 2.1 GH/s.  In this way, even with some duds the full rig is producing 410 - 415GH/s actual accepted shares.  Even Slush stats have caught up and show average hashrate over 400G at the pool.

I think this is unique - it seems most mining hardware is rated at a certain hashpower, but true output is typically less than promised.

 Any chance you can post a CGMiner (or whichever miner you are using) screenshot of a 400gH/s product in action ? Genuinely curious, and excited with this product offering.

 Also, as I understand it, the products becoming available will be allocated to your 100TH endeavor first ?
 
 Does this mean that August orders will not ship until you have all 100TH online for yourself, or will the products be divided between customers and your mine if it looks like production delays may prevent your initial 100TH allocation arriving on schedule ?

 Cheers.

I posted this video a few pages back of the screen output from our rig: http://youtu.be/naW5uGHLbZE - added it to the OP.

The order for 100TH and August product is all one batch, and its being produced now.  The first 4 full rigs shipped to Tytus today.  I expect the rest to finish assembly very soon (though specific finish date has not been provided by factory).  We have no reason to expect production delays at this point, or that we won't have enough product.  

Logistically there two challenges for each effort:
For 100TH, assembling, configuring and running all those rigs will take time.  We are trying to cut down on that by: preassembling racks, prewiring them with PDU, switch, patch cords, power cords & power supplies.  We are pre-imaging SD cards for all the rPIs for both 100TH and customer orders.  I have all the racks, PDU's, switches, PSUs, patch cords, power cords, SD cards, rPi's and a 16x SD duplicator all in hand.

For August orders the main bottleneck will be testing for bad cards.  We will try to fire up as many as we can to test simultaneously.  We can see fairly immediately if there is a card with bad chips, so hopefully we don't need to test for very long - maybe only a few hours, or until the unit shows it can come up to operating temperature with no bad behavior.  Then out the door they should go.

I have two different ship teams and a build team for 100TH.

[Mobius]

Do you have a download link for the RPi image?

[Syke]

We are pre-imaging SD cards for all the rPIs for both 100TH and customer orders.

And of course, if you distribute any open source software you'll have the sources immediately available?