Bc ur ASIC build is gonna out perform both companies.  Lol, forget BTC/LTC these boards are gold.  What a grand new passive aggressive frontier in which we live.  I chose BFL bc of wattage, and I hadn't heard of Avalon/didn't have 75BTC which at batch 3 openish was 4,500USD-ish, now it's a lot more.  I have faith in BFL, they've delivered before and will do so again.  Put it this way, if you're posting on this board, you are already ahead of 95%+ of the people.  Get some BTC, save some, mine a bunch and look back at this time for a laugh bc we are all winners here.  I just stumbled upon this last month, I was minimally jaded/very skeptical at first bc I found out why my MacBook wasn't sleeping due to a netbot Trojan, now I can't sleep bc my starter rig is humming away.  I certainly can understand how months of waiting can drive you mad, but try to use that energy to good use.  I'd say the "real"money is building beater starter rigs n selling them on eBay but hey, what do I know.  Cheers to BitCoin Mining : )