Something about the total absence of pics from the get-go has left me wondering why the Avalon Employee who posts here can abbreviate their username as BS... The math just doesn't work out, either... You'd think people who have so much reason to stick it to BFL in a glorious and horrible way would do so with a few pics.

Call me any names you like... I'm still sticking with BFL. This Avalon business doesn't smell right. I'll be happy to print this out and eat it if I'm wrong. I'd love to be wrong. But, me being wrong is a pretty rare thing...

Regardless of all that, I much prefer the smarter FCBGA package. I'm shocked and disappointed that it wasn't the choice from the beginning for all would-be ASIC makers. The density made it obvious that heat would be an issue. I was totally derp-face to see that a product was shipping that WASN'T FCBGA. We all <3 the OCing, liquid cooling, etc... FCBGA is the only package that makes sense, even if heat weren't an issue, simply because the tendency of the community to mod and push limits is well known. Even if heat were not an issue at spec, most of us customers would MAKE it an issue.

I'm not in this to get in on a 2 week (probably less) gold rush. I want to see the network become stupidly strong. If units can ship that become double what they were, that does more for the network than a token "we shipped 1 unit and won't even prove it's real with a simple photograph."

:-/