I came in over the weekend and got a bunch more sticks tested. Also tested out a new assembly procedure that should pick up the overall pace, which is definitely a good thing.
Anyways I have to go by the post office today anyway so I'm shipping out the next small orders. This makes the first 8 small orders, total of 47 sticks, shipped by day's end. The next 200 will be stashed for the first large order. By end of next week I should have that first large order done and be tearing into the next however many small orders. I'll have to retool for bitshopper sticks before long, so that'll slow up the domestic-order pace a bit.
Thanks for the update.
I don't know where my 6 sticks are placed in your queue but I made some silly contraption while waiting the new toys to show up.
http://imgur.com/AEiKf8Sthanks...cute..., however, you will be cooling mostly the hub, not the sticks themselves with this setup as they will protrude much higher than the fan plane.
There is a large block of heatsink in the middle.
All the sticks will be mounted on this then connected to the hub via 6-inch Male to Female USB extension cable.
I don't know the quality of these cables so there could be some amp loss but I guess I have to play around to find out.