i wish the mining industry learned more from the PC industry. Like bitmain should just make socketed chips and a chipset and let others build motherboards and cases. follow a standard. maybe its to much of a niche for that but still it would be cool. i hope their next Miner is enclosed like the S3. open case is the worst idea ever. i dont care if it saves on shipping. make it out of plastic.
the pc industry needed to standardise because they had to sell to the masses, with bitcoin asics, they do not have to sell to the masses (only bitmain still do!).
And be careful what you wish for in terms of build as you will have to pay a pretty penny for it! Flip side is asic mining rigs are throw away devices, and bitmain must have realised the ills of their design with the S3 (on a technical note, all my open S3's, i.e built from the S1 to S3 kits, perform better than the enclosed ones at any freq), thus the S5's design.