As much as I want to support AM, I needed to upgrade and needed an all-in-one self contained solution. I got a used Dragon 1 TH unit delivered in 3 days for $550. I did not need a power supply, ethernet controller, customs delivery issues, nor did I need to screw with the firmware to get it to mine on my pool of preference. It was up and hashing at 1028 GH in less than 4 minutes, with just a hair over 1000 watts at the wall.
When did you start mining?
$550/TH is about $100 more expensive than the AM Prisma.
At $0.1/kwh the AM Prisma would save ~$100 worth of electricity in 6 months.
So unless you can mine $200 in profit before the Prisma's begins shipping, then the Prisma is a better deal.
Now granted, I could not get 100 of them at this price if I was running a large operation, and the Prisma is somewhat more efficient, but you really only realize those efficiencies if you run them in bulk.
Where did you get the idea that efficiency only matters in large scale operations? If anything it's the exact opposite.
The cheaper the electricity, the less of an effect efficiency has. If you have free electricity then efficiency means nothing (as long as cooling is not a problem).
I guess AM has it's sights on datacenters only.
How so? A 1100W machine seems perfectly fine for home use as well as datacenter use.
Hopefully AM has lots of room to reduce the prices as more larger units come out of datacenters and into the secondary market.
Not sure what you mean.
Do you think there are some massive farms that will be dumping miners on the market for some reason? The only reason for this I can think of would be to replace their current gen hardware with AM Prismas.
I don't think AM has anything to worry about with current gen hardware as it's clear that no other company can come close to the $/gh that AM is offering. And as soon as there is a competing chip, AM's gen4 will probably be ready or due soon.
