Are thumbs being sent separately from board orders? Are all coming from AUS or will USA orders come separately?
Thanks,
Read a few pages back and look for Barntech and Bobsag3's posts.
Thumbs shipping first at least for non-US orders is what I gathered.
bobsag3 is handling US shipping and will be testing each unit before shipping. Lots of people chimed in saying they want bobsag3 to do a reasonable amount of testing of the units before he ships them to us in the US via UPS. Much better to wait 2 days more than to get a bum unit that we'd have to send back to Australia or China. Bobsag3 is based smack dab in the middle of the USA so it should only take a few days to get it from him after he's done with testing.
Bobsag never said he was testing each unit nor is that necessary....at this point I don't think anyone here wants to wait another few days while every board is tested prior to shipping. I'll settle for an hour or to on a reasonable % and just expect that a few may need to be replaced. I'd rather risk a few days of not hashing on 1 board than have to wait a few days for an entire orders worth of boards.
At this point we need some reasonable testing and boards in hand. It would take WAY too much time for every single board to be tested and that time is very valuable at this point (difficulty rise is coming, again!).
Actually... Yes he did... Though I could definitely live with testing only a sample if it took too long..
At least from me, all boards will then be tested again (Not sure how long... suggestions?)
I think a fairly short period of testing for each piece of equipment should be enough. You can weed out the extremely unlikely DOAs that made it past the fab's QC that way, and any absurd error rates/slow hash speed/other problems can be discovered by the end users and exchanges can be worked out between the unfortunate party and Barntech rather than you and Barntech.
Much as I enjoy getting extensively tested, guaranteed to be good equipment, it doesn't make a lot of sense to delay everyone for the sake of catching a few possible problems.
Im ok with testing every piece of equipment for a short period of time if people are ok knowing its not "brand new" so to speak.