BFL board project COINTAMINATION - EU facility - ORDERS OPENED for Chili

[Swimmer63]

Outstanding JJ
If we are in Luckos GB do we need to order from you?
I'm in AZ.

[JerimiahJohnson]

Outstanding JJ
If we are in Luckos GB do we need to order from you?
I'm in AZ.

All customers who are in North America can order from http://www.cointamination.com, if you have some sort of discount from Lucko contact him about that and we will work something out. We will have a solid coupon/discount solution for those who have earned discounts in the next day or so.


thank you
-JJ

[Lucko]

Outstanding JJ
If we are in Luckos GB do we need to order from you?
I'm in AZ.

Since I will be getting chips from BFL we need to figure out logistics(I will probably mount all those chips)... Main problem is time zone difference so it is hard to talk...

[ryanb]

i purchased 8 chips from a group buy and i will send them for assembly once i receive them


but is it 699 for assembling the chips?

[Swimmer63]

Outstanding JJ
If we are in Luckos GB do we need to order from you?
I'm in AZ.

All customers who are in North America can order from http://www.cointamination.com, if you have some sort of discount from Lucko contact him about that and we will work something out. We will have a solid coupon/discount solution for those who have earned discounts in the next day or so.


thank you
-JJ

Any other options. $700 is a long way from the estimates.

[Lucko]

I'm sure he is just talking about the page too soon(again)... JJ can you please comment since you setup this page and products...

[JerimiahJohnson]

hi
sorry about the confusion, between my incredibly busy life and the huge time zone difference between myself and lucko, and form we have some mis-communication.

Please dont buy anything from the website until weve tested this board thoroughly.

We will have prices and everything else worked out by the time the board is tested.

thank you for being patient and sorry for confusing you - I was excited to finally get the PCBs in though

-JJ

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi
Is there any more information about power requirements?
If these (and other boards) sell well, there could be a problem buying power supplies of the right quality and size.
We may need to pre-order psu's to obtain the best units.

BFL seem to have had problems along these lines.

[JerimiahJohnson]

Hi
Is there any more information about power requirements?
If these (and other boards) sell well, there could be a problem buying power supplies of the right quality and size.
We may need to pre-order psu's to obtain the best units.

BFL seem to have had problems along these lines.

These boards use standard 6 pin pci-e connectors, like what you use with a high end gpu

I do not know the exact power requirements per board yet , but it can easily be measured after form assembles the first board using these new rev 1.2 boards.

The datasheet for the chip is here: http://my.root4u.de/BFL_SHA2_Spec_Rev2.2.pdf

Which may be helpful,

But honestly I would just buy a high end certified gold or certified platinum "gaming level" psu
1000w-1200w Seasonic Platinum or Corsair Gold/Platinum Something like that

I actually tested several BFL 50Ghs SC's (they actually do 65Gh/s+) which I believe have 16 chips in them, and I was able to easily run 3 Units from one 1200w Seasonic Platinum PSU. It had enough connectors and plenty of power. So I would imagine the contamination board will use about the same amount of power as the BFL 50 SC here: https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/50-gh-s-bitcoin-miner.html

Hope I was able to help.

-JJ

[Swimmer63]

hi
sorry about the confusion, between my incredibly busy life and the huge time zone difference between myself and lucko, and form we have some mis-communication.

Please dont buy anything from the website until weve tested this board thoroughly.

We will have prices and everything else worked out by the time the board is tested.

thank you for being patient and sorry for confusing you - I was excited to finally get the PCBs in though

-JJ

Thank you for the clarification JJ. Will wait to hear from you.

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi
Is there any more information about power requirements?
If these (and other boards) sell well, there could be a problem buying power supplies of the right quality and size.
We may need to pre-order psu's to obtain the best units.

BFL seem to have had problems along these lines.

These boards use standard 6 pin pci-e connectors, like what you use with a high end gpu

I do not know the exact power requirements per board yet , but it can easily be measured after form assembles the first board using these new rev 1.2 boards.

The datasheet for the chip is here: http://my.root4u.de/BFL_SHA2_Spec_Rev2.2.pdf

Which may be helpful,

But honestly I would just buy a high end certified gold or certified platinum "gaming level" psu
1000w-1200w Seasonic Platinum or Corsair Gold/Platinum Something like that

I actually tested several BFL 50Ghs SC's (they actually do 65Gh/s+) which I believe have 16 chips in them, and I was able to easily run 3 Units from one 1200w Seasonic Platinum PSU. It had enough connectors and plenty of power. So I would imagine the contamination board will use about the same amount of power as the BFL 50 SC here: https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/50-gh-s-bitcoin-miner.html

Hope I was able to help.

-JJ

FYI,

Mini rigs are shipped with two 1500W power supplies.  One running 4 singles (64 chips) pulls 950W from the wall, the other is running 4 singles (64 chips) plus all the sidewall fans, pulls 1100W from the wall.

So my 1000w cougar (with 8 connectors) should be ok with 3 boards but may bottom out with 4?

[form]

So my 1000w cougar (with 8 connectors) should be ok with 3 boards but may bottom out with 4?

3 is okay.
4 maybe works, too - but i wouldn't do that 24/7 - unwatched.
Its too near to its limits.

[Bogart]

I'm expecting a 16 chip board will want about 300W.

[Mudbankkeith]

So my 1000w cougar (with 8 connectors) should be ok with 3 boards but may bottom out with 4?

3 is okay.
4 maybe works, too - but i wouldn't do that 24/7 - unwatched.
Its too near to its limits.

Its good these units are arriving from October onwards, they will reduce the central heating bill!

[GrapeApe]

Wow,  Cointerra right here in Austin TX announced today that they are selling pre-orders for 1TH/S ($3499) January delivery. I have 8 chips in batch 2 and 8 in batch 3 (50% paid)  I would be willing to sell all 16 for 3.3 BTC  or 1.7 BTC for 8. Send me a pm if interested...

Edit: Nevermind I'm keeping my chips.

[JerimiahJohnson]

Just some food for thought...

No Offense but 1 th/s wont be jack shit come January. Just sayin'

Especially if knc ships 28nm ontime (October 15th), I have 2 th/s of avalon asics now, which to me is barely anything these days.

It's much smarter to get hashing sooner than later even on a smaller scale, the difficulty level is rising at record levels every difficulty change.

Also I wanted to note to people to keep updated on the cgminer thread,  the latest news is Bitfury devices wont be compatible for awhile, there is some issue there, I had the link but I lost it, if you look for it you can find the info.

We use the same micro controller and firmware as BFL - our devices will be compatible out of the box just like BFL's are, plus they will be available much sooner.

We will be ready as soon as BFL starts shipping chips which should be soon, they may be backlogged on devices but that takes assembly, the availability of other components and all sorts of other things that causes delays, chip shipments should be timely.

Just putting in my two cents

-JJ

[Lucko]

We use the same micro controller and firmware as BFL - our devices will be compatible out of the box just like BFL's are, plus they will be available much sooner.

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=168174.0

See something interesting? Fifth device is? It will support additional functions of the board.

Features:

• A variety of device drivers for Bitcoin (SHA256d):
  • Bitfountain Block Erupter blades and USB miners (Emerald and Sapphire)
  • Avalon ASIC mining rigs
  • Butterfly Labs's BitForce SC (ASIC) product line
  • Butterfly Labs's FPGA BitForce Singles and MiniRigs
  • Cointamination 65nm BFL ASIC board
  • Enterpoint's Cairnsmore1 FPGA mining board
  • FPGA Mining X6500
  • Qi Hardware's Icarus and Lancelot FPGA mining boards
  • BTCFPGA's ModMiner Quad FPGA-based mining device
  • Ztex's 1.15x and 1.15y FPGA boards
  • OpenCL GPUs, such as AMD Radeons
    • Kernels: Diablo, DiaKGCN, Phatk and poclbm
    • BFI_INT patching for Catalyst versions before 13.2
    • Vector support
    • Dynamic intensity that keeps desktop interactive under load and maximises throughput when desktop idle
    • Integrated overclocking and fan control (including automatic adjustment, if configured; AMD Catalyst drivers only)
    • ADL device reordering by PCI bus ID
    • Support for mining with free Mesa/LLVM OpenCL
    • GCN (79x0) support
  • CPU (not enabled by default nor included in Windows build)
  • Coming soon:
    • BitCentury LittleFury USB miners
    • Butterfly Labs's Monarch bitcoin mining card
    • Eligius Mining Patty
    • Gamamax GamaStack boards
    • Intron/C-scape BitFury-based mining device (distributed through megabigpower.com and BFSB)
    • KnCMiner Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn mining devices
    • Metabank BitFury-based mining device
    • any other device provided for development (PM me)

[GrapeApe]

Just some food for thought...

No Offense but 1 th/s wont be jack shit come January. Just sayin'

Especially if knc ships 28nm ontime (October 15th), I have 2 th/s of avalon asics now, which to me is barely anything these days.

It's much smarter to get hashing sooner than later even on a smaller scale, the difficulty level is rising at record levels every difficulty change.

Also I wanted to note to people to keep updated on the cgminer thread,  the latest news is Bitfury devices wont be compatible for awhile, there is some issue there, I had the link but I lost it, if you look for it you can find the info.

We use the same micro controller and firmware as BFL - our devices will be compatible out of the box just like BFL's are, plus they will be available much sooner.

We will be ready as soon as BFL starts shipping chips which should be soon, they may be backlogged on devices but that takes assembly, the availability of other components and all sorts of other things that causes delays, chip shipments should be timely.

Just putting in my two cents

-JJ

Sometimes forums aren't the best forum for communication my sentiment was of disappointment not excitement (after rereading my post I understand the assumption though). My thought was my 64 GH/s won't be much worth it but you are right about a bird in hand is better than two in the bush. So at the risk of looking fickle I am taking back the offer to sell my chips and sticking with the plan. At no point did I loose my faith in the cointamination project (this development has exceeded any promises and expectations). I am just getting very concerned about the rise in difficulty, 300,000,000 seemed so improbable to me a year ago but now I thinkit is right around the corner. Hell something like 135,000,000 is next...

I stand corrected next estimate at the moment is 110,000,000.

[dwdoc]

BFL chips shipping on schedule!!

Just got this email from BFL:

Dear Customer,

This is notification that it is seven days or less until your chip order is scheduled to ship. To see your remaining amount due, please log in to your account dashboard.

If you purchased via bankwire, please issue the remaining amount due to our bank account at:

Bank name: Commerce Bank
Bank address: 8901 State Line Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Swift: CBKCUS44XXX
ABA / Routing: 101000019
Account Name: BF Labs Inc.
Account Number: 000049278
Account Address: 10770 El Monte, Leawood, KS, United States of America

Please add your order number to the memo of your wire transfer.

Once we have confirmed receipt of the wire transfer, we will add your order into the queue for processing.

If you purchased using bitcoin, you will be issued a new BitPay invoice about seven days before your order is supposed to ship which you will be required to pay within 15 minutes after opening. Please look for it in your e-mail inbox or spam folder.

If payment has not been completed, the order will not be shipped to you until it has been confirmed as paid.

Thank you for choosing Butterfly Labs' 65nm ASIC.

Best wishes,
The BFL Team

[Lucko]

Really nice... I was sure that they will be little late at the start but this is nice surprise

So you will have your chips in 7 days? We need to make boards ready? How many? You are US right?