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Topic: X6500 Custom FPGA Miner - page 23. (Read 220101 times)

sr. member
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March 09, 2012, 01:23:51 PM
Unlike some of your other competitors.  I won't say their name.   Grin
Nor are they 4 months behind....
I wonder why people produce a 4 month backlog instead of just buying a competitor's board (e.g. the X6500)...
Is it because the X6500 is just listed as "out of stock" at cablesaurus, and people don't know that there's a new batch coming in?

Why? Because people took vendor B's statement of a delivery time frame of 4 to 6 weeks at face value.
That's why.
People are gullible.
I'm guilty of that myself, even though for me the wait has 'only' been 9 weeks, so far.

I expect vendor B to take about one week to process two weeks worth of orders, so, according to that estimate, vendor B should catch up to my first order by early April, for a total time between order and delivery of 3 months.
hero member
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FPGA Mining LLC
March 09, 2012, 01:13:46 PM
Unlike some of your other competitors.  I won't say their name.   Grin
Nor are they 4 months behind....
I wonder why people produce a 4 month backlog instead of just buying a competitor's board (e.g. the X6500)...
Is it because the X6500 is just listed as "out of stock" at cablesaurus, and people don't know that there's a new batch coming in?
donator
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Creator of Litecoin. Cryptocurrency enthusiast.
March 09, 2012, 01:08:36 PM
It would be great if the latest boards can run the 200 MHz bitstream without additional cooling needed.
member
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March 09, 2012, 12:27:09 PM
This is going to be fun!!   }:)
legendary
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BitMinter
March 09, 2012, 10:43:47 AM
What a clean looking board. I'm sure it will sell well. Nice to have active cooling for faster mining.
donator
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March 09, 2012, 10:03:21 AM
The original blue heatsinks seem to work pretty well, do you have any remaining?  What brand are they?
legendary
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March 09, 2012, 09:47:51 AM
Unlike some of your other competitors.  I won't say their name.   Grin
Nor are they 4 months behind....
full member
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March 09, 2012, 06:04:44 AM
hero member
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Merit: 528
March 09, 2012, 05:48:58 AM
Hi fizzisist,

might you please tell me how the black heatsinks with fans are called and who sells them ?

Would be interested in this profile for another experiment.

No problem! They're these, or some knockoff of that: http://www.deepcool-us.com/Product/NBRIDGE2/

You'll see them everywhere when searching for "chipset" or "northbridge" heatsinks.
sr. member
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Watercooling the world of mining
March 09, 2012, 05:38:30 AM
Hi fizzisist,

might you please tell me how the black heatsinks with fans are called and who sells them ?

Would be interested in this profile for another experiment.
hero member
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Merit: 528
March 09, 2012, 05:36:17 AM
Nice, thanks for the quick responce, your customer service skills are great.  Unlike some of your other competitors.  I won't say their name.   Grin

Heh, just a coincidence really. Smiley I was writing that when you posted. My best estimate? Heatsink-less in about a week, with heatsinks in two weeks. We'll do our best to make that happen!
sr. member
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March 09, 2012, 05:30:45 AM
Nice, thanks for the quick responce, your customer service skills are great.  Unlike some of your other competitors.  I won't say their name.   Grin
hero member
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Merit: 528
March 09, 2012, 05:26:01 AM
As promised, pics:





And, they're mining!



Those heatsinks are just for testing. Hopefully we'll have a decision on what heatsinks to use very soon. If that takes too long, the first boards available will be without heatsinks, letting you supply your own.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
March 09, 2012, 05:20:47 AM
How's the deadline looking on completion of the next batch of boards.
hero member
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Merit: 528
March 08, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
The boards are here!

I'll take a couple pics and start some basic tests tonight!
donator
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March 06, 2012, 05:26:35 PM
Simple and effective, I like it.  The standoffs didn't brake on you?  I got a set of the plastic ones also, but I think I over tightened them or something cause I broke the threads off of two.
donator
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March 06, 2012, 04:28:16 PM


Much better.  I might make a hood for it out of cardboard or something, but there is good airflow over the top and bottom of all the boards as it sits.  I used 1 1/8 in. standoffs ($6 for a pack of 25 on Amazon, might be cheaper elsewhere) that seem to be almost the perfect height for using 2x 80mm fans.

edit: +1 piece of card stock Smiley


full member
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🦜| Save Smart & Win 🦜
March 06, 2012, 02:13:04 AM
I have no problems using my photos either.
newbie
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March 06, 2012, 01:15:44 AM
Skimming through the thread, I see photos from:
...
bitcowok (and here)
....
Would you folks be ok with your pics posted on fpgamining.com? If so, and you want to have a little blurb or some other info about it you would like to share, please let me know!

Yep no probs. go for it.
sr. member
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Why is it so damn hot in here?
March 05, 2012, 07:29:30 PM
It wasn't to "make it work".  The Rev. 2 boards pulled power from the 5v rail as designed.  The molex mod was to switch the power feed from the 5v rail to the 12v rail.  This was done because most of the modern PSUs can supply far more power on the 12v rail than the 5v rail.  They will work on either the 5v or 12v supply.

Yes, exactly. Thanks for adding this clarification.

Well, if you dig back through the thread, I was the one who wanted it on the 12v rail not the 5v.  Causing the molex mod post, causing his confusion.  So I just figured I would clarify it.   Roll Eyes

To bad every time I get some cash together to buy these damn things, something else eats my money up.  It's seriously starting to piss me off.   Undecided

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