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Re: [ANN] US/North American Bitfury sales NEW STOCK ***NOW SHIPPING***
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salfter
on 14/01/2014, 08:09:59 UTC
Quote from: newguy05 on January 13, 2014, 09:55:24 PM
Quote from: salfter on January 12, 2014, 08:05:55 PM
Quote from: shade88 on January 12, 2014, 03:34:57 PM
0.47BTC H-Card, time to buy Cheesy

This...the price drop is appreciated.  Cheaper (by about a third) than AntMiner, and more power-efficient. 

Please explain how you arrive at this conclusion.  Bitfury 200GH set is $3200 = 3.9BTC at current coinbase $822/btc

Antminer 180GH is 3BTC

Both shipping now.  How is bitfury 1/3 cheaper than antminer? 

Bitfury is more power efficient - that is understood, but i dont understand why you think bitfury is 1/3 cheaper.

Four H-boards will do 140 GH/s with mild overclocking (the two I already have are doing 70).  I paid about BTC1.87 yesterday for them.  Five (for 175 GH/s) would've been about BTC2.34. "1/3 cheaper" may have been a little bit of an overstatement, but Bitfury hardware is now cheaper.  Until recently, it wasn't; that's why I also have an AntMiner.  I'll build out my mine with whatever will give me the most bang for the buck for what I have available to spend.

One other thing I noticed: the 4-, 8-, and 16-board kits appear to now be shipping with M-boards at no additional cost (though without the Raspberry Pi and SD card).  That's a nice change from when I bought my kit, where the M-board (and RPi and SD card) added $800 to the cost.  Allowing $40 for a RPi and $10 for an SD card, there's no way there's $750 worth of parts in an M-board.