Re: 1GH/s, 20w, $700 (was $500) — Butterflylabs, is it for real? (Part 2)
Thank you for these enlightening results.
Thus, it seems that the overclocked 7970 can get more than this unicorn BS.
I mean WTF
7970 | BFL
Cost : 550 | 599
Performance : 700 | 700
Warranty : 3 years | 6 month
Resale value : 50% | 0%
The ONLY advantage I see is the consumption of power but surely that is not worth it for some US guys that have 0.10 prices. Maybe this is for EU market but VAT and import duty kills that as well so it is LAME right now from the promised holy 1000 MHash/s, 20W, $500 figures ...
BFL deserves a medal for fail of the year.
Thermal throttling due to bad design FTW !
I think the advantage of plugging it into a USB drive as well as being able to "stack" the singles is advantageous. My wife is complaining about the noise & effects of me over clocking the GPU (glitchy screen display).