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Re: Avalon A10 series announced
by
StevenMosher
on 16/04/2019, 08:04:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by frodocooper (3) ,Steamtyme (1) ,HagssFIN (1)
It was just a link to a youtube vid of the test at the enviromental lab. I emailed it to Matti.
its on my youtube channel.

Finalizing pricing now. It's rather difficult because most of the pricing is done on a  RMB per TH  basis in china. Irrespective of efficiency.

In short, the domestic market doesnt care about efficiency that much.

Lets  compare:

38  TH   @  2500  watts    .065J/GH    @ 3 cent power   =   $5.79  per day     2 years = 4226
31  TH   @  1800  watts    .058J/GH    @ 3 cent power   =    $4.89  per day.   2  years = 3569

Same machine:  same cost.  and everyone sells on RMB per TH.. well which   performance do you pick to price it?

Now compare M10

33  TH  @  1850 Watts    .056 J/GH    @ 3 cent power   = $5.26  Per day          2 years  = 3839

Now compare

33  TH  @  1850 Watts    .056 J/GH    @ 6 cent power   = $3.93  Per day          2 years  = 2868
38  TH   @  2500  watts    .065J/GH    @ 6 cent power   =   $3.99  per day       2 years =  2912

Of course guys here know how to do this math. The math on having a reliable system is harder. The math on how many machines actually deliver the promised spec ( or higher) is also harder to estimate. The math on reducing your number of network connections  because of daisy changing is probably easier.

So, its trivally true that the lower your power price the  more likely you are to trade efficiecny for hash rate. The vast major of huge customers are below  6 cents, all in. So they have to look at all the various modes the machine can run in. After seeing what Phillip was doing, I kinda pressed on engineering to make on the fly frequency changes a lot easier.  There is STILL a long way to go on what I would call proper specifications for systems: in particular I would like to see independent lab testing of machines and like to finally publish some hard data on how performance changes as a function of temperature. Who knows with a built in neural net asic maybe somebody will discover that the machine can learn to control itself. The clock cores already adaptively adjust  their clock rate as a function of DH.

Any way,   a few other updates.  machines will probably be built in a mix of with PSU  and W/O PSU. You can run the machine  with an integrated PSU ( it has voltage control over I2C)  or just attach your own PSU. And if you get it with the integrated PSU  you can always switch it.

Price on the website is  just a stand in price.  It will be below that once we start taking orders. While we have a bunch of machines in test, Lily and I want to get test results from the first  Trial run. You should see those system hit the pool any day now.