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.