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Has anyone heard what the error/failure rate of Avalon chips is? Wondering if it's too soon to know for sure. Maybe there are some stats from the first 2 batches of Avalon boxes?

It seems that failures are extremely rare. Burnin is so sure in that that he offered 2 year guarantee for Avalon boards he is assembling, he will replace failed chips free of charge.

I wonder for how much overclocking that is guilty. I mean he wrote you can put the voltage to a level that its a sure way to break the chip.

It wouldn't be a surprise if he puts some hardcoded voltage limit in the firmware. It's logical that he can't take that much risk, since he promised he will replace the chips with his own chips, otherwise he can go broke letting people to fry the chips playing the voltage roulette.

Since you write it this way... can it be that you misinterpreted it? He wrote that he will replace broken chips after production with his own chips. But im not sure if you can send them to him and he will replace your broken chips. This might become devastating for him. Broken fan... he pays, overclocking without enough cooling, he pays... and so on.

Maybe I misinterpreted it, but I didn't say the fan, that's irrational to expect not to brake occasionally. Nevertheless, I understood he will replace chips with his own from his personal reserve, and that impressed me very much.

Might want to read his SITE clearly states the 'as is' nature and best effort of the production of these units and the very LIMITED warranty.