Topic: Philipma1957's attempt to rate current Manufacturers of Asic . Results in. - page 10. (Read 11578 times)

What questions would you ask?

To me those questions are ones that anyone would ask when looking at a manufacturer and wanting to make a decision on who to purchase from. But it could be expanded a bit more in detail.

I'd be happy to put one together if provided some of the questions(open ended, multiple choice, scale rating etc). Open ended questions tend to get much better results than from closed / multiple choice selections.

Next question: Which manufacturer is located closest to Israel?

I support you making another manufacturers trustworthiness thread, but seriously those are bad questions. It's painfully obvious that this was SP-tech's idea idea because all the questions pander to their strengths.

Yep, at ehash.com.

There's also some more obscure 3rd parties like BitCrane, XBTec, Rockminer, etc. 

 I used the builders requested by the company that is compensating me to do the thread here and the 5 polls.

As you say BitFury and KNC no longer sell to much home miners.

 I would also mention Avalon is not on the list and I think they sell the Avalon4.

Why are BitFury and KNC on there?  Neither of them have a current realistic offering for home miners. 

Not trying to poo poo the poll, just pointing it out.

Without even reading the eligible candidates, one can easily answer Spondoolies to all of those questions.  Hands down. No contest.

Thread is now locked


I will revisit this idea in about 4-5 weeks

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full image.
http://imageshack.com/a/img661/1091/J9oSGu.png

more shots on last page.

Second set of edits:  Thanks to Biffa we have an offsite google poll/survey





it allows 1 vote see second screen shot if you vote 2 times.--- yeah I am sure some know how to get around this. I would like to think it may be somewhat of a deterrent since we are looking for honesty here.

Screenshot of the survey



double vote gets you this.





I am doing this free of charge zip no fees paid to me.

 Since this thread was started by me on behalf of spondoolies-tech on the promise of a fee.  A lot of drama came of it. Thus my decision to not take a fee. SP-tech agreed to donate the fee to a charity of my choice. I will pick some charity that will take btc and ask sp-tech to put in the btc.  I will show the btc addy with the donation to it.
My original fee was to be equipment worth about 2btc.  
Staff/Mods if you will check my pm's you will see my requested fee was 1 sp20 and 2 sp20 fans so I could demo fan mods on a thread here. I wanted to be able to offer a quieter fan solution like the one I did for s-5's. On this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=927941.0;all


That gear was about 2 btc in value.

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The info below is out of date

Lots of edits.

 This  thread got a lot of heated interest  and it shows a need for a more nimble go to guide to current gear+builders .
My poll was partially compromised  due to me not making the choice results blind until the poll ends so  I am no longer taking any compensation for this thread or the  7 polls. .      



A lot of us have purchased from  different builders of asic gear since BTC has started.  
Some builders of gear have been brutal really bad. Some pretty good.

I have been asked by a current builder of gear  to develop a poll/listing/rating of Manufacturers.
I won't reveal the builder of gear that asked me to do this.
I will say I will be compensated by that builder. no longer true I will not take fees to do this.


They want to ask these questions:

- Which, to your experience is the most trusted manufacturer?

- Which manufacturer has the best firmware ?

- Which manufacturer has the best support ?

- Which manufacturer cares the most about its customers ?

- Which is the overall most professional manufacturer ?

They want you to pick from:

1) AsicMiner
2) BitFury
3) BitmainTech
4) KNC
5) Spondoolies-Tech


I listed them in Alphabetical order.

So to do this correctly I will run 5 separate polls.  Each one for 10 days.

poll one first question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938258.new#new

poll two second question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938259.new#new

poll three third question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938260.new#new

poll four fourth question link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938262.new#new

poll five fifth question  link is :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938263.new#new


After the 10 days I will post all five polls here.   EDIT: I will also tell the ex-sponser's name

This is an unfiltered thread.  I am really trying to do a transparent clean set of poll questions and answers.

Thank you.

I added 2 questions one was mine it is here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--938696    note this is a blind poll note the choices are a bit different

the other is jimmothy's

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--938755 note this is a blind poll note the choices are a bit different.