Quote from: Syke on March 02, 2014, 06:16:29 AM

Why would you do that? Antminers are cheaper and ship sooner. It must be nice being so rich you can just throw money away.

Hello there,

ANTMINER S1 Dual Blades Spec

Hash rate: 180 GH/s
Power consumption: about 360 W from the wall
Power supply: 3 +12V DC input
Power efficiency: 2 W/GH/s on wall
Size: 135 mm x 155 mm x 300 mm
Network connection: Ethernet Cable / WIFI
Cooling: 12cm PWM fans and customized heat sink

Pulled this from their site just before post (price changes frequently). While you are correct about the shipping, cheaper is incorrect. We'll compare vs. the 1.2 Th/s miner; (1200 Gh/s) / (180 G/s) = 6.6666... we're going to round up because you can't buy a fraction of a machine. This means that you need 7 Machines to get a little more hashing power than AMT. So while (BTC1.37 * 7 units * $560) = 5370.4 and that is a cheaper initial buy-in, you and other champions neglect a key factor. (7 units * 360 watts) = 2520, more than twice the projected AMT power consumption (1200 watts). For those that are concerned with ROI and profit (not just revenue), this is the part that will turn your money generator into a very expensive paperweight. This also matches why the chips had delays in development (28 nm chips claim .67 watts / Gh/s according to http://bitmine.ch/?p=4543 and verified http://bitmine.ch/?p=5176) which led to the majority of delays in this entire process. Also, for those of you concerned about videos and such of the miners themselves, since AMT definitely works with Bitmine, the videos that they released are essentially what you (and I) ordered. I would think that one of you fancy hero members would know how to do some simple math but you guys are the heroes so I'll just concern myself with details and you guys go on with the big picture of driving up that post count (no one said the posts actually have to mean anything so long as the number is high [WoW background; Gearscore argument]). Anyway, just thought I'd throw in some facts real quick.