This is definitely not a scam. I received my two units last night, and they are both hashing away in the garage just fine at roughly 220GH/s each. They are certainly loud and my units were poorly assembled. Since they are in the garage, the noise is bearable. On the shoddy cases, it's not a huge deal, as they are miners, not artwork.
As far as ease of setup, it was a little tricky getting two PSU's into the case and plugged in - very tight. But once they had power, connecting to the network and setting up cgminer took 5 minutes. Also, they run a similar OpenWRT linux to the AntMiner S1, so I was able to SSH into the machine, set up api-allow and see the status on CGRemote. Easy-peasy.
I'm running them with two Corsair CX750 PSU's each, and they draw about 950Watts from the wall at stock 1400Mhz. I've tried to run them at 1500Mhz and get roughly 230-235GH/s but power draw increases to 1050W or so. I'm not sure if it's worth to overclock given the ~5% increase in hash rate but ~10% increase in power consumption. Any thoughts from others?
Overall I'm happy with the purchase and hope to make some ROI in a couple of months. My concern is power use, as my rate here in CA is very high (0.35/kwh!!!). I might need to sell them in a month or two to someone with cheap power to maximize my return... Anybody want a 6week preorder at $1500 per unit?
As far as ease of setup, it was a little tricky getting two PSU's into the case and plugged in - very tight. But once they had power, connecting to the network and setting up cgminer took 5 minutes. Also, they run a similar OpenWRT linux to the AntMiner S1, so I was able to SSH into the machine, set up api-allow and see the status on CGRemote. Easy-peasy.
I'm running them with two Corsair CX750 PSU's each, and they draw about 950Watts from the wall at stock 1400Mhz. I've tried to run them at 1500Mhz and get roughly 230-235GH/s but power draw increases to 1050W or so. I'm not sure if it's worth to overclock given the ~5% increase in hash rate but ~10% increase in power consumption. Any thoughts from others?
Overall I'm happy with the purchase and hope to make some ROI in a couple of months. My concern is power use, as my rate here in CA is very high (0.35/kwh!!!). I might need to sell them in a month or two to someone with cheap power to maximize my return... Anybody want a 6week preorder at $1500 per unit?