Avalon is a bit...well, old and crusty. Like ASICMiner's chip. No longer competitive, even when compared to BFL's chips.
I run some Avalon stuff here (HEX16A2), but even though they were dirt cheap, they're slow. Almost identical board using BitFury chips does more than double the hashing for no more heat or power use.
Those Avalon clone machines out of China are pretty overpriced too...I think Avalon needs a new chip, one that's much more efficient that the current designs.
Topic: New Avalon Batch (Read 1546 times)
From: http://avalon-asics.com/happy-chinese-new-year/...
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Until today, we have shipped 6PHash Avalon chips all over the world. Almost 85% was from the Avalon2 A3255 chip.
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[...] we continue to increase chip production capacity [...]
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About our next chip. Here is some information. the chip codenamed A3233, it has been manufactured in factory, you will get samples at March 2014. A3233 will be several times better than A3255 on the performance and energy efficiency. In addition, our fourth-generation chip also under developing.
lol, avalon was good when I got my batch 1 unit.. Now they aren't even in the running for my next purchase.
wow respect, that you have the balls to post here!
U scammed a lot of people, including me & friends.
I hope the bad karma pursuite you and your friend Yiufu, and you have a really bad CNY, like our last half year.
U scammed a lot of people, including me & friends.
I hope the bad karma pursuite you and your friend Yiufu, and you have a really bad CNY, like our last half year.
Nah, too expensive and not competitive enough.
Why they couldn't do standard PCIe card design with a lot of power connectors?
Why they couldn't do standard PCIe card design with a lot of power connectors?
yeah, good idea. let me work it out.
Nah, too expensive and not competitive enough.
Why they couldn't do standard PCIe card design with a lot of power connectors?
Why they couldn't do standard PCIe card design with a lot of power connectors?
Avalon is dead to me, it should be dead to you as well.
Admittedly, I really like the design of this. However, the pricing, power usage, and manufacturer prevents me from taking it seriously.
I agree, the minute I saw the photos I wanted it, but after that I saw the price and didn't care about it anymore.
that is so 2013...
Admittedly, I really like the design of this. However, the pricing, power usage, and manufacturer prevents me from taking it seriously.
+ all the internets!
i think them dogs actually meant 50BTC but mistyped it as 5.
they ONLY cater to the uncertain/misinformed just like any other scammers!!
Who wouldn't want to pay a premium to do business with the oh so honorable ngzhang and Yifu?
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
Any thoughts/knowledge on ngzhangs association with gridchip?
Are those old chips ? 
where is 28nm
where is 28nm 
Who wouldn't want to pay a premium to do business with the oh so honorable ngzhang and Yifu?
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
+1M
Nobody should be buying from these pricks.
+1
Pass.
Who wouldn't want to pay a premium to do business with the oh so honorable ngzhang and Yifu?
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
Go fuck yourselves guys. I hope the chinese government raids your mine that you stole from batch 2 buyers and destroys every private key you hold.
Yeah that seems a bit expensive.
I think they must have meant the price was 0.5 BTC. That would actually be competitive and interesting, otherwise an antminer is a lot less costly— more than enough to ignore the form-factor an included power supply differences, especially considering the power usage. Maybe it could find a use filling in some space in colos with fixed-per-rack power costs.
Under an assumed growth of 2%/day a 315GH/s device delivered Feb-15th will only mine 2.54 BTC in its life. That kind of growth can't be sustained, but it could certainly be sustained long enough to make something drawing 3.2W/GH worthless.
Under an assumed growth of 2%/day a 315GH/s device delivered Feb-15th will only mine 2.54 BTC in its life. That kind of growth can't be sustained, but it could certainly be sustained long enough to make something drawing 3.2W/GH worthless.
There seem to be a lot of typos in the price fields.
Admittedly, I really like the design of this. However, the pricing, power usage, and manufacturer prevents me from taking it seriously.
Looks like new Avalon Batch is coming after New year:
http://avalon-asics.com/product/avalon2-new-2u-size-machine-300ghs-with-a3255/
Unfortunatelly price doesn't seem so cool.
5BTC for 300GH/s Avalon is 0.0167 BTC/GH
vs
1.45 BTC for 180GH/s Antminer = 0.0081 BTC/GH
which is more than twice the price for Avalon, that also has highest power consumption and probably highest HW errors rate
http://avalon-asics.com/product/avalon2-new-2u-size-machine-300ghs-with-a3255/
Unfortunatelly price doesn't seem so cool.
5BTC for 300GH/s Avalon is 0.0167 BTC/GH
vs
1.45 BTC for 180GH/s Antminer = 0.0081 BTC/GH
which is more than twice the price for Avalon, that also has highest power consumption and probably highest HW errors rate
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