Hi all

First post here. Been following Bitcoin progress for well over a year now and saw the massive price jumps earlier this year. That obviously encouraged me to set up my own mining rig. TOC was easy as work was going through a hardware refresh, leaving a couple of decent dual Xeon HP desktops going spare.
ATI 6870 purchased for £109 - total cost of first mining rig. ROI already acheived :-)

My question is what are the views on Avalon ASIC's? I'm going to order (or even send to manufacture) a handful of Klondike PCB's. In your opinions are these first truly first generation IC's? Are we expecting there to be a lot of work (not announced on these forums) on second gen IC's? Is it worth waiting or is all the money to be made as an early adopter?