I've been watching this thread.
Yes, lets hope this is a mock-up because the pictures, as posted leave me skeptical, but way less so than if I had actually fronted some money.
Some flaws, as I see them:
1) Although there is plenty of space, the heatsinks are mounted BELOW the sources of heat. wtF?
2) the HDD enclosure and heatsinks appear to have flakes of aluminum or something shiny... never a good thing to mill and drill near the components, could be mistaken
3) I dont see any sort of comm bus between the boards or anywhere else.. unless those 3 connector terminal blocks are for some really snappy RS232/422/485...
4) how does one comm with the overall device? a NIC or some I can't quite make out?
5) Not much air movement from the powersupply fan facing the side of the case... and why not just use the powersupply MOUNT? Is that supply just positioned in the middle of
the case for some reason? to make the case appear full?
6) pricing... 1.2THs/5999USD
7) no wattage etc specs posted on the site, which is barely operational, except for the 'pay with these methods' part?
most all the commentary and pics up to this point, and yes, I also watched the video.
9) that camera may be the miner, may provide > hashrate than the item behind it
AMT, you guys might take a page out of BTC-e's playbook and advertise 1.2THs for 15-20% lower than anyone else, you'll get a lot more SUCKAs.
-or- PROVE me wrong, I want nothing more that for some additional players to get into hardware.
Again the question will go out there:
ANYONE, ANYONE?
COME FORWARD if you are a satisfied customer, show us the specs, in vids/pictures?
Lian li is very expensive, but they are also one of the best in the industry regarding casing for computers and case design for custom computers and machines. So yea we're going to pay double or maybe triple what our competitors pay for a great case.
Buy why?
1. we can rely on lian li to have surplus of stock cases (encase our cases aren't ready yet) and no delays.
2. they offer a really nice quality product and a high quality casing and in a market who's consumer basis is growing, the non-tech guys might just choose the prettiest most familiar looking device.
3. There is no reason why we can't make a pretty miner, if our pricing is reasonable and if we choose to take a loss on profit by making a pretty miner, its our loss. Also we feel it will expand our consumer basis because regular people are generally intimidated of computer components will choose to buy our miner because it looks simple and more like something they are familiar with. - and again it will be pretty.
4. Expansion sections for mounting new drives/boards. The bottom of the smaller cases comes with an expansion rack, this will be standard in each of our machines, this way the customer can order a coincraft board + heatsink and micro fans (fans similar to the ones that go under a 3.5 drive) from us, and mount it on the bottom, turning the bottom of that case into an extra 220 ghs.
I'm going to break this down by number if that's alright.
1. The air pressure coming from the front side fan pushes the negative heat over and under the boards and out the top ventilation fan. It really does not matter if the boards are up or down because of that airflow design. That design is not the most practical but because bitfury chips dont get too hot, we can get away with it and ship in a case which is available at the moment. This is the same case that is being modified for our miners from lian li and we are going to be a distributor of their casing and casing components as well.
2. That flaky shiny thing you see this is a locking mechanism on the front of the cage, this allows for a strong hold of the boards.
3. This is just a case with boards - no cables actually. the boards connect via usb and 4 pin molex which are placed in the back of the board but connected with shorter cables. On the 1.2 we'll have a nice backboard like the snappy setup you're referring to.
4. TPlink and or USB cables. You can connect the tplink directly to your router at home and leave it to mine. The nulled TPlink firmware image comes with CGMiner along with a API code if you'd like to use a more user friendly software that integrates with a cgiminer api. Or connect the inbound usb cable connected to the tplink directly to your computer and mine with Hexminer.
5. I dont have a good answer for that one.. period.
6. Yes that is the price of the 1.2th - correct.
7. For the 80,128,192, and 220, Each board needs about 80W Each board gets up to 51ghs but call it 45 just to be safe. - you do the math on what supply we'll put in the case depending on which model is ordered.
8. -?
9. -?
Regarding clients that have received our miners, we think because we never really sold to forum guys thats why no one is posting on the forum. We want to be 100% sure we can continue to make bitfury based miner before we publish a video on it.
We feel our pricing is ok, we have some discounts in the future but we want to be absolutely sure we can cover all costs expected and unexpected.
A good thing my grandfather once told me (He owned one of the most known Deli's on the main line to do this day, and still the best place in town to get a corned beef sandwhich on a rye) he said, "What ever you think you'll need for your business, think again, and then double or triple it. You may have less customers but you'll have a more happy customer because you'll do your job right and better than anyone else".
