DRILLBIT SYSTEM Miners - Avalon range available - Now $104.99!

[lajz99]

..... and Bam! They're all gone.

Thanks everyone for making this happen. I'm gonna do the final tallies soon and we may have a final release of a few more thumbs, maybe even a few more boards. Stay tuned.

Barntech.

Congratulations!  Awesome group buy you've put together here!

[hasher87]

between asicminer's 10ghash blade for 4btc ($515) and your 20ghash blade for $650, i would definitely choose the latter 

but i really hope the price could've been a bit lower! try your best aight

[vulgartrendkill]

..... and Bam! They're all gone.

Thanks everyone for making this happen. I'm gonna do the final tallies soon and we may have a final release of a few more thumbs, maybe even a few more boards. Stay tuned.

Barntech.

If you do decide to release more boards, could I swap my thumbs for 1 board?

[jtkanpp2]

..... and Bam! They're all gone.

Thanks everyone for making this happen. I'm gonna do the final tallies soon and we may have a final release of a few more thumbs, maybe even a few more boards. Stay tuned.

Barntech.

If you do decide to release more boards, could I swap my thumbs for 1 board?

If that would be an option I would like to know as well. :-)

[DyslexicZombei]

Please add me to this upgrade list as well Barntech. I purchased 2 thumbs.

BTW: Well done!

P.S. If you check your PM history, I was the one giving you advice via PM when you were setting up this GB when I was asking you how much a 86GH/s setup was gonna cost.

Mate! You were overwhelming me with uber-detail.
I was like: TMI! TMI!
Ya need a TL;DR! For the love of Bob. Glad to see it all worked out.  
 

[DyslexicZombei]

Dated Aug. 4, look how far he's come! Good on ya! These are PMs I received from him that day.


"Hey Zombei.

Thanks for getting in touch. Glad to hear that you love Aussies. Likewise, Hawaiians are some of the friendliest people i have met. I was there a couple years ago and had a great time.

I hear you when you say that it can be a bit confusing absorbing all the info on the post. At this point we are still locking down final costings on all the parts so we don't yet have a definite price on boards and assembly. When we do, i will take your advice for sure and put the pricing in big bold text up the top.

It's looking like each 8 chip Drillbit board will come in around the $100 mark for the board and assembly, give or take. Adding the cost of chips to this brings a fully stacked 8 chip boards up to around $300. This is just to give you a ballpark, and may end up slightly higher or lower. To stack four of these, you will be looking at something around the $1200 mark. Four stacks of four being roughly $4800.

If you are looking at getting than many however, you would be better off going with the backplane, which can take 16 boards, keeping all your miners together in one unit. To expand to the to a fully stacked backplane, you would need to purchase the backplane as well at roughly $150. Though if you are considering purchasing 16 boards, i will throw this in for free.  Smiley

As i said this is not a quote but just something to give you rough ideas on the pricing.

So now onto the hashrates. The chips have been demonstrated to have performance up to 2.7 Gh/s. This is what you can get if you overclock them up to almost melting point. The sweetspot for efficiency of S/Gh is more like somewhere around 2 Gghs. We will have more info on this once we get more testing done. The Drillbit board is designed with overclocking capabilities built in, so you will have control over how hard you run the chips. We will provide specs for recommended stable running rate, but in the end if you want to squeeze every last hash out it it, you will be able to.

At 2 Gh/s each board is 16 GH/s. 16 boards will give you 256 GH/s stable.

At 2.7 Gh/s each board will give you 21.6 GH/s. 16 boards will give you 345.6 GH/s but you will need proper cooling as it will be running very hot.

In the end, the choice is yours, but we recommend running them a bit less intensely.

In terms of going in for the buy, the only cost we need right now is the price of the chips. 16 boards worth of chips will cost you $3200.

Yes we accept payment in BTC and PAYPAL. The Paypal option will be up in the next day or two. Buying chips through Paypal will cost slightly more due to the paypal fees. $26 instead of $25.

Hope that gives you all the info you need. Please feel free to ask me anything else you can think of.

Cheers.

Barntech"

[DyslexicZombei]

"Quote from: DyslexicZombei on August 04, 2013, 04:21:28 AM

Mate,

You were still losing me on the prices and such.    

Your detailed response shows a lot of passion. But yeah I'll def. be watching as I do expect some funds to free up shortly. Was hoping to do something a little better than PCBS on cardboard boxes but the assembly/processing time is an issue what w/ the net. difficulty seeming to go up 20% every week lately. I'll be watching the thread updates.

Cheers!


'Haha.

Ok. How about this:

Approx $5000 for 350 Gh/s

Hope thats clear enough.  

Will have more specific details soon. We are looking into casing options too, but for now the priority is to get the PCBs happening. Regarding shipping times, we will be getting the chips from Bitfury in october, and will turn them around as quick as we can.

Cheers. '"

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I just want to add if you have any Aussie friends, don't ever, never ask them to "Spit the Winkle." Especially to a honeymooning couple innocently sitting on the other side of the glass on vacation at the Turtle Bay Hilton on the North Shore. Some things you can never unsee.

[lajz99]

What is going on here?  I'm 

[DyslexicZombei]

Sorry for the confusion. Those were PMs (with my response sandwiched in between) I received from him a month ago when he was still setting up & unsure of pricing. Just wanted to show how passionate he is & how far he's come.

Update: cleaned up the editing on the posts above. Sorry lajz99!

[vulgartrendkill]

Watching with interest to see fully populated prototype board/miniplane/thumb.

 

[flemeister]

I havent seen it (may have missed it, sorry) but could you let me know the dimensions of the cards please?

I'm interested in this as well. Judging from the CAD pics and actual board photos, they look to be a smidge over 4x molex plugs in length and width?

I'm looking at housing them in an Antec Solo case. CPU, motherboard, RAM, PSU in their usual spots, and the Drillbit boards mounted on the floor of the case, with a case fan blowing over them, and the exhaust air going out the PCI expansion slots. The 24-pin ATX connector would be occupied by the PC's motherboard, so I gather I could just mount the Drillbit boards separate from each other (not using the four-stack mini-plane), and power them individually via their molex plugs?

Another option is to use my old Dell Mini 9 netbook, but I'm concerned about reliability over the long-term. It's a passively cooled netbook, using a thin aluminium plate just under the keyboard. I was thinking of removing the keyboard as well as running it headless, with a [dust filtered] fan blowing into the guts of the netbook. Power consumption (DC estimate) for the netbook alone would be 6~7W, compared to ~20W for the desktop CPU and motherboard (Celeron G1610 and H61 board).

An Intel NUC (Celeron 847 model -- ~$200 AUD) would be another option, drawing around 10~12W from the wall.

Or skip x86 and get a Raspberry Pi with negligible power consumption?

Just throwing some ideas around. I'm currently leaning towards the desktop CPU option, as I'm not too fussed about the slightly higher power consumption, plus I'd feel more comfortable with troubleshooting in Windows 7 than learning afresh in linux. Need a VGA port as well for my perfectly sized Asus 15.6" VW161D monitor, so would need an adapter for the Intel NUC. I gather with the rpi you could use an s-video/composite to VGA adapter?

[monkeynutts]

Hey guys.

Totally happy to ship in batches if people want that. I guess ultimately it will be up to you guys to coordinate. I can post up all the people in each given country to assist you guys in sorting that side of it out. It will probably be cheaper that way, but as pointed out may result in the process taking a bit longer.

I'm sorry i haven't got proper shipping details up yet. Trust me, it is on my list. Basically it will come down to weight and choice of things like expedited delivery, tracking (i imagine we will all want this) etc. I WILL get that sorted soon. In the meantime, pplease feel free to form groups for bundled postage if you like.

Updates on possible second chip batch aren't looking good. I can see that there is a lot of demand, and trust me, we would love to make more of these things, but i still haven't heard anything back about potential price changes. Currently new batch boards would sit somewhere around the $650 mark, which i don't really feel comfortable offering. That said, if 500 people are all happy to pay this, then we can do. Let me know if that does interest any of you.

We will also be putting up the purchase option for blank boards soon for anyone who has access to chips any other way and is interested in fabricating them themselves. All our stuff we will be open sourced once we have done our manufacture run.

Totally understand and no negative vibes were intended in regards to the shipping, just starting the conversation with the UK chaps.

Look forwards to more news and updates as they happen.

[sei]

so the usb miners are still avalible right? your first post says 0 left but on the site says 49 avalible

[Barntech]

so the usb miners are still avalible right? your first post says 0 left but on the site says 49 avalible

Sorry,

Haven't updated the page. Currently there is 0 available but we may release a few more in the next couple days. Keep your eyes peeled. 

Cheers

[manawenuz]

can someone inform me if there are any available ?

[monkeynutts]

can someone inform me if there are any available ?

The answer is in the post directly above your one.

At this point in time there are ZERO boards and ZERO usb's available.

Some more MAY ( i stress MAY ) be made available but at this point in time there are


ZERO left.

Hope this is clear enough for you

[Datto]

I have an order in batch 1,I try reading all these posts, anyone any idea on when we can expect delivery ?

[vulgartrendkill]

I have an order in batch 1,I try reading all these posts, anyone any idea on when we can expect delivery ?

end october beginning of November, depend on Bitfury supplying chips on time (no indication that they won`t deliver on time)

[DyslexicZombei]

Barntech,

You might want to change your first post title to CLOSED when you get a moment. That might help with circumventing potential customer disappointment.

Just a suggestion: Perhaps you could add an update to the very top of your post in a different color text, with today's date, mentioning that you're doing a wait list if people would like to be added to it. Could help secure future sales. You also might want to add an update as to when you expect to ship out your next batch.

[console_cowboy]

After looking at cointerra's website, their individual chip prices aren't that bad... http://cointerra.com/product/goldstrike1-25th-asic-pack-50-500ghsec-asics/ $139,750 isn't that bad for 50 500gh/s chips. That puts a single chip unit at around $2795. I'd be curious what sort of samples they might send out to test the feasibility of a design. Even though its a ways off, if the cost of the board isn't too high I would certainly be interested in a $3000 500GH/s board. Might be cool if it was mountable in a PC case, as I imagine something like that would require quite a bit of cooling, much more than an array of much smaller bitfury chips. Price per a GH/s would be better than even our cheap bitfury pricing, as we would only get around 225-450GH/s with bitfury based on current and future pricing.

EDIT: I'd be interested in trying to run some group hosting as well. I've got years of experience in big IT. Main issue would be the establishing proper legal protection for the customers and for the mining operator. Being based in the US, a mining coop would also have to follow any laws and regulations pertinent to the mining. Just putting it out there as food for thought.