I really wanted these to worth buying; but they aren't.
A 5x 1070 rig costs almost exactly the same and will produce 1900+ sol/s @ ~850 watts with stock settings.
With optimized settings you should be able to get 1900+ sol/s @ ~550 watts.
This is with equipment that is easy to resell, and is likely to hold its value well over time.
The panda miner needs to be both; way more efficient, and have a significantly lower price.
As it is now: it's just a ripoff targeting new miners.
Not even a valid comparison as not the same hardware and your PSU, CPU, SSD, OS, power riser and rig frame is free?? I keep hearing people say stuff like this without data to back it up. But this is not even a valid argument. This is like comparing building your own PC vs getting a All in one computer. Different purposes and target consumers. Can you deploy 100 rigs doing self build as fast as these plug and play?? What is your time worth. Now compare the cost of 8 x 480 plus a 1600w psu. That'd already $2k. What about CPU, MB, SSD, Ram, 8 power risers, rig frame? I have 40 rigs now and just the time to open and store all the boxes for gpu, cpu, psu, etc is a long time. I bough the 14 Nvidia from hearing people claiming all the greatness, quite frankly they sucks. Just like with rx480, a lot depends on your luck with the ram as not all of them can be boosted as high. There are market for these, let's not thread crap. The only sucky point is the crappy 45 days warranty and chinese OS but if those asic are easy to replace and upgrade, this is an ultimate solution for large farms. If I can upgrade my asic to say 490 or Fury and sell old ones to others, etc. The former factor is also very good for heat management.