Quote from: funnow on April 21, 2013, 08:43:07 AM

Quote from: kingcoin on April 21, 2013, 08:40:36 AM

Which Stratix7 and ArriaV do you have in mind?

Did I miss something? Are those new chips? Never mentioned any Arria series chip. And nowhere is mentioned Stratix - VII

I'm not sure what he means either. I think only Stratix V is the newest model.

Quote from: funnow on April 21, 2013, 08:29:12 AM

Quote from: Signus on April 21, 2013, 08:14:07 AM

I do understand, and it's fine to learn.

Do you have any experience handling electronics? If not, I suggest reading up on soldering SMT and through-hole components. And one of my favorite books for FPGA's is Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays by Dennis Silage. Very useful.

Both chips are roughly the same price, aside from the distributors. How many chips do you plan on buying? Minimal quantities will run you thousands per chip. My sources on that one are Digikey and Altera.

If you buy 25k I imagine you can get them at a fraction of the cost, but buying a single chip would break bank unless you're rolling in dough, haha.

I have a little experience in handling electronics, much more I have in computer repairing (about 30 years) but If I will need someone, there is a friend company doing this and they probably help me. Yeah similar prices, but Stratix-5 +5% of hashrate and little more power usage,...
I have sources in CHN (one of my friends moved in China) so If I find any good price, he checks the company,..... Single chip will be bought only for test, but I'm still doing some research about this part.
And as I see maybe my post is somehow interesting (see a lot of you is reading this) -> also helping me, and I can only say thanks.
Maybe the first batch will be about 15k, maybe more. But first I have to find some computer for gold refining (lol) to have a bigger $ cap (he he)

Okay, and I would love to be of assistance, I have experience with FPGA's and embedded design. Just not the funds to get my hands on good equipment. Even my University won't buy me anything good for my research.

If he finds you a good rate, let me know. I have heard a lot of people ordering chips or FPGA's from HK and so much so that it's almost ridiculous the kind of savings they're getting. I want to know because I'll be investing a lot of money developing FPGA's in the future.