Did look into Bitmain. Current products don't go past 200GH.
Then buy more than one.
Do have a good GH/$ ration NOW, but hindsight is always 20:20.
Why are you comparing the power usage of an existing device against the bullshit number that BFL have posted with any sort of confidence? They received eng. sample chip a couple weeks back and they still haven't posted any test results. The last time this happened for BFL their >1W/GH turned into 6W/GH.
But they are SOLD OUT, and have been for weeks now... And no new products coming up...
No they're not. I just checked myself.
Worse yet: no new & improved products coming up...
How do you know? No one knew about Bitmain and their S1's until a week or two before they opened up sales. Bitmain doesn't do pre-sales and have proven to be quite tight lipped on their development strategies. If they're working on something new, you're not going to know about it until it's ready to ship.
next please...
It appears as though you're dead set on ignoring all the information in front of you. Go ahead and buy the BFL Monarch cards, be our guest. However, you best not come back here acting like one of the "spoiled brats" when you find out you were lied to and lost all possible hopes of making your money back.