Don't like what you hear, don't. Our team which pools from IBM CPU designers, transistor and electric engineers, code developers, and more. Were based in Research triangle park, NC *the tech hub of the east coast*, with a group of people from major tech firms, We have a wonderful system in place, if you read the entire post, we will be dedicated 25 of the cards to a private pool, which we will run after shipping the first 50 boards out, for a 30 day period and 80% of all coins found will be split evenly 50 ways with the other 20% going back into printing a larger order, which will in turn bring the price down.
remainder of the cost after submitting 2 BTC's our estimate right now for a 150 - 175 run will be right around 1600$ usD for a 1th/s - 1.5th/s +/- 10 percent card. The cards are powered by a 6 pin molex connector. We have everything in place except for the final revisions of the boards.
you dont want to participate that's fine, but don't troll this post.
As to building them for ourselves and mining with them we don't want to emulate BFL labs *cough*
Anyways participate or don't we already have 5 of the 50 slots taken. So there are People who are interested, those who have placed full price orders to bfl labs with no chance of a refund, and no estimated time frame for receiving their rigs. I wil post pictures of the AVALON chips and our newest prototype in a couple of days, we just sent in a revision and it will take a week for it to be finished. You will get your screen shots and pictures.
So before you internet know-it-all's go on a flame and troll war, just be patient. It's not like we gave a deadline on the 50 slots. But the faster that happens the faster the boards will be available. And Quite frankly after investing 10k of my own money Plus money from other team members over the past 6 months, If the mining community wants a option for the dedicated GPU rigs, they just need to show a little faith.
Also the newest revision will allow for the cards to be run on a PCI-E 2/3.0 x16 board @ x8 So you can do 2 cards per x16 slot.
Our team has over 150 years of combined experience, I myself design Major ISP Level Colo/data centers and run my own dedicated / VPS hosting company. Our 2 CPU architects have 50 years between them in the industry, our Circuit Board dev has 15 years experience and can hand soldier a circuit board that looks like it was printed professionally. Our firmware and Program developers are FANTASTIC... So we have an amazing team.
But anyways carry on, participate or don't, We wanted this to be a "by the miners for the miners" project but if it ends up not meeting the 50 slot goal if we have more than 25 slots filled we will continue as planned if not we will refund every single BTC.
So please if you don't have anything good to say, have the common courtesy to keep your typing fingers from trolling this thread.
-Jon
[email protected] really....
so you have a group of highly skilled and thus highly paid individuals and all you need is 100 btc or $13,100 USD from the community? really?? why??? you all can't put up that money yourselves?... seems like your group should be able to pull together 13K given the pedigree you claim to have there...
I call bullshit until you get your numbers right and cough up info/escrow.