[ANN] Noncetech - Sales Closed. Price drop soon.

[Noncetech]

Hello fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts and miners!

We are a team from Finland and we have started manufacturing ASIC miners under the name of Noncetech.

The miners are modular; one chassis can hold 1-4 mining cards (blades), making upgrading easy if you start with less than 4 cards. The motherboard on the other hand can hold up to 8 cards.


PRE-ORDERING IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. FOR ORDERS OF 10TH OR MORE, CONTACT sales@noncetech.com


Here is the latest product info:

Our Competitive Prices:

New prices out soon!

Sampo mining card without Raspberry Pi: $819 ($3.276/GH/s, turbo)

Sampo 250 rig without PSU: $1039 ($4.156/GH/s, turbo mode)
Sampo 500 rig without PSU: $1859 ($3.718/GH/s, turbo mode)
Sampo 750 rig without PSU: $2699 ($3.599/GH/s, turbo mode)
Sampo 1T rig without PSU: $3499 ($3.499/GH/s, turbo mode)

Sampo 1T bundle (2 rigs) without PSU: $6598 ($3.30/GH/s, turbo mode)
Sampo 1T bundle (3 rigs) without PSU: $9797 ($3.27/GH/s, turbo mode)


Sampo rig specs:

- Plug and play
- Modular design
- Nominal hashing rate of 200 GH/s per mining card (+/- 10%)
- Nominal power consumption of 0.5-0.7 W/GH/s (+/- 10%)
- Turbo mode hashing rate of 250 GH/s per mining card (+/- 10%)
- Turbo mode power consumption of 1.0-1.1W/GH/s (+/- 10%)
- Controlled by Raspberry Pi
- 19 inch chassis


For more information you can visit our site at www.noncetech.com. We will be posting news to this forum and to our site. You can also subscribe to our newsletter.


Do give us some feedback! We welcome all of it.
Also feel free to ask any questions.

Sincerely,
Antti Muilu from Noncetech    



Picture of beta mining cards:
https://i.imgur.com/gRLrOaul.jpg?2


Auto-reboot demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTPqRBCG8HM


Beta products simulating Sampo 1T:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvXD2K9vNA


Quick DIY overview of Sampo mining cards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctam5lk_xKQ






[UPDATES]


April 08
Pre-ordering is now open!


April 04
Pre-orders available on Tuesday 8.4 GMT 20:00


March 30
Noncetech now on twitter.
https://twitter.com/Noncetech


March 29
Miner named Sampo.

Card specs:
One mining card has a nominal performance of 200 GH/s with a power consumption of 0.5-0.7 W/GH/s.
The turbo mode values are the following: 250 GH/s with 1.0-1.1 W/GH/s.


March 26
Stress tests. Mining cards were able to mine at a steady overclocked rate between 250-260GH/s.
Temperature on the card was 59°C with a room temperature of 22°C.

Pre-orders are due to start next week. 3 beta rigs will also be available.


March 24
First test runs made. Achieved 260GH/s per card.

[Zelek Uther]

In-stock business model: good.

I like the name too.

[warhawk187]

Watching this topic, looks promising.

Do you have any test unit results to prove your claims?

What are your anticipated shipping dates?

[QuestionTime]

Hello fellow Bitcoin enthusiasts and miners!

We are a DIY team from Finland and we are starting to manufacture ASIC miners on a small scale under the name of Noncetech.

Right now we are working on our first product. Our initial plan was to hold on to all of our small amount of beta phase products ourselves, but lately we’ve given in to the idea of releasing a few of them to the public. We have finished our design on the circuit board, ordered suitable fans and coolers, chosen the rack and are inches away from finalizing the setup.

We use the CoinCraft A1 28nm ASIC chip that has a hashing speed between 25 and 40 GH/s depending on the mode the chip is run on.

The miners are going to be modular, so that the mining rig consists of varying amounts of stacked mining cards connected to a motherboard. One mining card has eight CoinCraft A1 chips in it, putting it comfortably over 200GH/s. The modularity idea will allow the user to plant newer card models into the same rig, reducing the cost of possible future investments. 

The card amount on the rig is mainly limited by the power supply and heat dissipation solutions. At the moment, the motherboard we made has connectors for eight cards. The beta phase rigs will be made so that each rig has three cards in it. So the hashing rate for such a rig is between 600GH/s-960GH/s.

After our products have successfully completed our tests, we plan to start medium scale production, while keeping our eyes open on newer chip models. We do not plan on setting up pre-ordering for the first batch, but we are of course not going to deny anyone who is interested. Problem with pre-ordering is often that users tend not to get their products on time. This is something we’d love to avoid, since time literally costs us bitcoins!

You can visit our site at www.noncetech.com. We will be posting news to this forum and to our site. If by any chance you have gained interest in the beta phase mining rig, send us an e-mail to info@noncetech.com.

You can also subscribe to our newsletter. The newsletter will let you know when the rigs are available.

In the upcoming week or two we will be adding videos of our test product and report on its performance. We will also update our estimations for the launch of our product.

Do give us some feedback! We welcome all of it.
Also feel free to ask any questions.

Sincerely,
Antti Muilu from Noncetech    

Welcome, please provide the following metrics:

1) $/GH
2) J/GH
3) Time to delivery

Thank you.

[Bicknellski]

Seems very familiar... where have I seen this idea before?

[Noncetech]

Thank you for your interest.

There are many variables at this early stage, so we cannot answer all your questions.

Our test products should start mining between 17-20th March.

We will give more information when we know more.

[bitgtr]

I too approve of the company name. If you need a hand shifting from small scale to large scale production, drop me a line. I can save you from some of the pain and pratfalls that you'll inevitably encounter if you decide to go that route.

[ManeBjorn]

Excellent.  I am looking forward to seeing more.
I wish you the best of luck with your upcoming testing.

[CaptEmulation]

Finland?  Ex-Nokia engineers perhaps? 

[crazu]

Been a hectic few weeks and many long night hours in, but finally we managed to get our first test results on a card!

Here's a couple of screenshots of the card on the design phase:
https://i.imgur.com/shmAG23.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/OLNK4sD.jpg

More importantly; the results of the first test.
Test was run only for a very short period of time with 2x4 IC configuration @ 0.85V

Total hashrate per block (4IC) was approximately 130GH/s --> card total 260GH/s
This gives us a hashrate of 32.5GH/s per chip.

Picture of the test run and the test setup:
https://i.imgur.com/HK2PDKu.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/g3Acaxx.jpg

Stress tests will be taken shortly and then the beta test rig is finished.
We'll nail down the exact price and energy consumption after the tests but the information will be given out in a few days.

Stay tuned!

-Noncetech

[klondike_bar]

looking good! are those standard mounting holes - wondering if a thin thermal sheet with a water block would be a simple and powerful way to keep it cool

[boed]

Very interesting! Will be good shipping price to Sweden I think!

Will you match Antminer S1 or other big manufacturers MHs/$?

[Somekindabitcoin]

Will you have an IPO? Also I would like to buy some of your hardware later on when they come out. Luckily I subbed.

[ChuckBuck]

Hi Noncetech,

When can you expect to start shipping completed miners?  Any rough date in mind?

Thanks,

Chuck

[Hektek]

Do you send any miner for testing to a hero member for writing an review ?

best regards

Hektek

[sikke]

Good job looks good. Cooling can be done with standard coolers or waterblocks.

I assume cooling was 70/30. Can they be cooled enough from top only.

[nytrolic]

Pretty brave name!

I know what a Nonce is in terms of Cryptography, but in the UK a Nonce is also somebody that touches children

[pbj sammich]

Looking forward to more information

[dogie]

Pretty brave name!

I know what a Nonce is in terms of Cryptography, but in the UK a Nonce is also somebody that touches children

Theoretically yes, but we use it as idiot now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_%28slang%29

[Noncetech]

Hello miners!

Currently we are doing stress tests, and we found out that the overclocking sweet spot seems to be between 250-260 GH/s (per card). This is the range that seems to have good stability over the power consumption and temperature, which means 1.1W/GHs and 59°C. The room temperature was 22°C. With this setup, the mining rig would have a hashing speed of about 750-780 GH/s and a power consumption of 825W-900W.

Here is a picture of 2 cards (4 blocks) running at about 130 GH/s each (one mining card holds 2 blocks, and each block has 4 chips):

http://noncetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/F405296D-D9C6-40E2-923D-3120B6DBD85A.jpg

However please keep in mind that that these are the OVERCLOCKED results. The default nominal hashing speed is 25GH/s per chip.


Here is the setup:

http://noncetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/168CF539-A96C-4BC5-A669-5257A037A24A.jpg




In other news, we will be opening pre-orders for the official products within a week. It will be possible to buy rigs (3x cards, 1x motherboard, 1x power supply and Raspberry Pi) and mining cards. Mining card buyers will get 1 motherboard for free, because it is needed to operate the mining cards. This is intended for more experienced users to build their own rigs and use their own PSUs. Motherboard has 1x ATX-20pin connector and 8x mining card connectors. A Raspberry Pi connector (with our software ready) can be purchased separately to control the device. We have estimated that it takes 2 weeks for the products to ship after we have received payment.

There exists a minimum order quantity for ASICs (from Bitmine) that we purchase, so the minimum amount of rigs for the pre-order to happen is 21 in total, or 63 mining cards. We will also limit the amount of pre-orders to 80 rigs or 240 mining cards to ensure that the production is not encumbered and that the products will ship at the required time.

3 beta rigs will also be up for sale and immediate shipping next week. They are now being assembled in Finland as we speak. The beta rigs can be considered the same as the final product. The beta rigs are sold at a price of $4099. They will be shipped from Finland, so there won’t be import duties inside the EU.

The final prices will be revealed soon, but for now we can tell that the rig’s price will be close to $3700 and the mining card’s close to $1100. We understand that the $/GH/s ratio is not the best around, but as a small manufacturer, it is hard to compete in price with larger manufacturers. We are, however, using quality components and will be shipping products at a steady, reliable pace.

We will soon post again to tell you the latest news! The release of pre-ordering will also be informed through our site’s newsletter.