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Anyone at GAW can comment on when we might get our $$$ back from the price drop in the new miners ?

No date but Zeus has indicated that it would be shortly after shipping.  Zeus also mentioned there could be a few firmware updates as they work on it.
We'll know soon enough. I'm anticipating better than advertised hash rates just from pushing the frequency a bit.  Fingers crossed.  It's also luck of the draw - I have two unmodified Gridseeds from GAW that are fast  940MHz and 945MHz. Others not so fast like 870MHz.  They all do way better than advertised though.



That is during autotune so they got pushed past what they could do before backing down and settling in at those clock speeds.

Did they post any ETA on when they would be updating the firmware ?

Only GAW knows for sure if the War Machine is the same as the Zeus Lightning.
Maybe there are some cosmetic differences, but I guess the 4 blades are exactly the same.
There seems to be a big spread between the performance of the blades, so it is possible that GAW gets specially selected ones.
It would be nice to get 10 to 15% increase in hashrate with new firmware, but personally I believe this is wishful thinking.

I don't know if they are exactly the same as Zeus or not but I got an email from GAWMiners saying that they will be releasing a firmware upgrade that could increase hash speed by maybe 10 to 15%.

Does anyone know if the GAW War Machines are the same rigs as the Zeus Lightnings? If so, does this mean a potential FW upgrade can get the war machines hashing at 72mH? The two units look the same. I know that zeus is not going to hit the advertised hashrates that they have for the rigs, despite them promising them, but its apparently due to a FW/tweaking issue.

GAW's doing a good job.  I'm pretty confident that they'll work to resolve any issues that might arise.  Confident enough that I've paid with Bitcoin the last two orders.  I got into Scrypt ASICs a little too early so my $$ spent per mhash is high but has dropped by half as I average down with new equipment from GAW.  Judging by the date & time on emails support looks to be working 24/7.  I've bought from 3 vendors before GAW and now have and received three deliveries from GAW and am anticipating another with the pre-order I placed yesterday.

Next for me needs to be a bigger miner from GAW as I don't want to use up all the space I have left with small miners.

Yes they came through for me as well. I had two issues that irritated me a bit, but they did keep their promise. It's hard to find folks that do keep their word these days. I will be going back for more. Thank you..

Just wanted to give my input as well. I want to commend Josh/Joe/Rami/Luke/Bill/Thomas and the rest of the GAW team for providing top notch service. They worked with me on all my issues and was able to resolve and compensate for all the issues. Keep it up GAW.

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Thank you for the compensation for the gridseed blade price drop GAW, much appreciated. 

I've lurked in these forums for about 6 months, but today I decided to make an account, just to tell my GAWMiners story. I have no affiliation with GAW whatsoever. I started mining DOGE and moved on to other coins and have made a decent amount by speculating new coins and mining different algos, but wanted to get more scrypt hashing power.

So, about 2 weeks ago a brother of mine and I decided that we were going to pool our money and get a 27MHs machine from Zoomhash because I'd gotten a targeted 15% off coupon in my email. However, I decided to see if GAW would match that, so I shot them off an email and decided to wait for a bit.  Good thing I did,  because my brother ended up with some unexpected bills and had to drop out, but I decided that I still wanted to buy some miners.

I purchased 1 individual miner with the GAW25 code, and 6 others.  The NEXT DAY I got a response from GAW saying, "We can't do 15% off, but we could do 10% off".  Great, awesome, I'm going to do that, and I'll get a Black Widow since that means less wires and stuff to manage.  But I didn't want to get stuck with the Furys as well, so I wanted to cancel the order.

The ticket I submitted didn't get answered yesterday (wasn't too surprised with that), so I called in and talked to Amanda. She got everything cancelled...but then I realized that I forgot to tell her to leave that miner I purchased with the GAW25 code (figured at that price it was worth it).  Sadly, that code could only be used once per account, and she couldn't put it back on.  So, instead of saying "tough titties, you shouldn't have told me to cancel everything if you didn't want me to cancel everything", she says "How about if I give you $25 store credit?".  Ok, that works for me.

I hang up and go to buy 1 black widow and 1 fury.  Wait...now the 10% off code they gave me won't work.  So, I call back and talk to someone else.  He tells me "Ya, that code is good on your account for 24 hours, and we can't put it back on once it's expired. It's a one time thing".  Now I'm thinking "Shit...I just screwed myself"  But then he says "What were you going to purchase?".  I tell him 1 BW and 1 Fury. He says, "Ok, then I'll give you store credit for $216.99, which is 10% of that price".

Wow. Thanks GAW. You guys didn't have to do any of those things since none of them were your fault, but you did. 

Do you want me to only buy ASICs from you? Because that's how you get me to only buy ASICs from you.

"GAW Saga"... 

GAW Miners is hiring game developers.

Please send me a msg if you have experience building and designing games (specifically mobile)

preorders are brutal. = fact.

so many issues above and beyond all the other risks of coins.

I am not going to order just yet .  First I want to read about the prime project.  Second  if I do not want the prime project  I will want a 13mh miner.  I also want to see how they work.    I really would like a better way to mine. I have made a few bucks  but I constantly bring gear in mine it for a bit sell it on ebay or private sales here.  Very small margins on the resale of the gear.  If I sell 10 grid seeds I get a free one for mining .  This is a lot of work.  In a way I wish the new gear would come out more slowly.  So that my current gear could mine for 4 months or 6 months before I move it out.

 

Awesome! Great to get a nice response. You guys appear to be doing a great job considering the increase in interest/volume/craziness in general. Thank you again.

Hey Guys, we had a few fraud A2 orders we had to sort though. So the shipped ones will go out tomorrow. I have ordered them to be priority (1-3 day) instead of ground to make it up

I placed my order within seconds of the A2 hitting their website on the 16th. I had to be the first in line. They will get your order done, you are further down the line. Also, my miner was hosted, not shipped. Huge difference in delivery method here. Hosted miners will probably always be delivered before shipped miners because of transit times involved.

When did you place the order? I know I ordered the A2 for delivery listed as expected available on the 20th, but it has not changed from "awaiting fulfillment." I placed order early morning 19th. I understand if there is high volume and I'm further down the line, but over delivering for some and under delivering for others when .3 bitcoins a day is on the line seems slightly unfair. It could already be in the mail but the site has not updated that information. I know I talked to support and they said 1 to 2 days from now, but knowing that someone has their order fulfilled on the 20th when expected fulfillment is the 21st makes me feel slightly cheated. Also wish there was an overnight delivery option, haha.

It's 2,595 on GAW site, and I'm not being a smartass, sorry if it seemed that way. I'm actually saying you have a good point, it's just the ratio is probably not 130/195, depending on if/when you think Big Gun will be back in stock. Think about it this way: every day you wait for your miner to arrive you're losing $195. That has a huge impact on profitability and ROI. The most profitable day in mining is today.

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