Quote from: Bicknellski on July 31, 2014, 06:05:01 AM

Quote from: gallery2000 on July 31, 2014, 03:04:17 AM

Hi,

I noticed that the third and fifth modules are not lighting up? Why is that? The 1000W PSU is not enough to support 5 modules?

Quote from: alabamaslamma on July 24, 2014, 09:01:22 PM

Hey everyone,

I wanted to make sure and get back on here (after leaving a not-so-positive post last week) and let you all know that Ry and nTek/RevUp's 1.2TH Miner should be added to the list of reputable companies/machines. I phrase that comment carefully, because while I would gladly say the aforementioned, note I am not endorsing their company or products just yet, as this only fulfills the first half of the (nTek provided) agreement.

I would like to mention here that I do not work for, have stock in, or are in any other way affiliated with this company other than purchasing equipment from them, but I would like to say that nTek has offered a very transparent (and unique) ROI agreement with the group of investors that backed the company from the beginning (of which I am one), and that have stuck out the [grueling] six month period of setbacks and delays. I will not go too much further into detail because the agreement terms would limit that, but I will say that this company has offered something that NONE of the other companies in this industry have even considered - an agreement that makes total sense and compensates 100% of lost mining time with what would have been mined by the equipment purchased.

Now back to my original statement of non-endorsement - this compensation is yet to be realized, but I have no reason to believe that nTek will do anything other than [continue to] fulfill it's commitments. I mean after all, Ry has put himself and his parent company (RevUp Render), way too out in the open (home addresses, cell phone #'s, social accounts, etc.) to make a group of people within this community unhappy. That said, I would expect that after all commitments from nTek (in regards to ROI for LMT) have been fulfilled, I would then endorse their company and tell other Bitcoin (& alt coin) enthusiasts that may be interested in investing in their equipment, to do so. Until then, I would invest with them with the understanding that they are still working through satisfying their first batch of purchasers and it may be some time before receiving any equipment from them.

I have waited (very patiently) for over six months and [finally] received my miner on Tuesday, 07/22/14. After some struggle adding it to my pool (surely user error), I have been up and mining now for about 18 hours and am averaging about 1.3TH/s

Those who have received their miner from nTek are likely feeling about the same as I have explained here and I would tell those (from the first batch of purchasers), who have yet to receive their miner that it is likely on its way. I am glad to see there are a few others out there that did their homework before purchasing and felt confident buying from this company and making the decision to stick it out - I believe the ROI for LMT will prove this was a great investment and I for one, look forward to working with nTek in the near future to increase my mining capabilities.

Here is a current pic (taken today 07/24/14) of my nTek miner:

Thanks and Happy Mining!

-BS

Heat sinks on the other side... so light is facing away from the camera? Why would those boards be inverted?

Is this the actual design? I thought it was more like this:

*Product design may change slightly due to improvements.

Hi Darin,

Please excuse the confusion happening here. We did however completely answer your question in the post made on page 18 of this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428831.msg8094832#msg8094832

The first miner is built to our specs with the chips purchased from Bitmine.ch in January. (more details already explained in above link) It is not the standard A1 clones, ;-) It is our own A1 clone, except it is not a clone because these units were made with A1 chips purchased from Bitmine.ch WHY IS ALL THAT Innosilicon and Bitmine stuff SOOOO UTTERLY confusing?

The miner in the second image is not what was sold as explained in the earlier post I referenced above for you. nTek sold the miners based on their specifications from January through March. The design in the second image with the nTek Computers logo was not shown until after those sales were completed. Hope that helps clear up any remaining confusion but feel free to ask more questions.

The design in the second image is may be turned into an open source hardware system called the nTek Modbox. Patent Pending parts will be labeled as such but we want to encourage the community to take the design to new levels on their own and see how the innovation grows. Adjustable brackets and fittings will be included to fit most boards on the market. As developers fit other boards to the system we can provide additionally sized brackets for new board fittings. The first Modboxes will ship with several extra adjustable brackets. nTek wants to provide a platform for developers and hope it will impact the mining hardware industry in a positive way. This is more fun for us and everyone else and also keeps the creative juices flowing. Most of our team at nTek are designers and artists so that is what we enjoy doing...designing amazing products.

We would like to host a competition to prove that our system can give other boards the ability to be over clocked further. Of course some closed source systems will not allow this kind of DIY spirit. With the nTek Modbox you will actually for first time be able to take the mining boards out of any miner that allows it remove everything except the PCB unit. Then attach it to the main heatsink and adapt liquid cooling across the entire top of the board. The liquid cooling like PC gaming mod boxes out there is a separate product. That product will be able to be used to also retrofit liquid cooling to some other miners without removing the Hash PCB's if there is room between the sandwiched together boards.

the nTek Modbox can also be used with GPU's to massively overclock them since it has liquid cooling. The photo you posted from our website is outdated simply because we are looking to keep this in beta mode for now until we can gauge the interest of the open source community. Liquid cooling has been developed for the nTek Modbox and many other design changes since we last showed photos of some of the prototypes in April. The design has changed a lot but we are too busy now to show photos or 3D computer designs of it all. Once the product is ready to ship then it will be posted to our web store that day and we are also talking to some resellers to setup channels through them.

Nice to finally be able to come out of stealth mode over here at nTek in Virginia and even talk about this. This is our plan now and it is our way of removing ourselves from the price wars going on right now between the giants of this industry. nTek Computers cannot compete with them to sell complete miners.

Some Virginia Tech students are pretty excited about the Modbox and are coming by to see some of it in action in our office next week. We are going to ask them if they can post some photos or something online so I will give a link here if they do.

Depending on the price of A1 chips and the market we can potentially sell 10-chip boards along with the kit. Our 10-chip board does hash but it simply got too uncompetitive on the market the nTek designed board using A1's since we paid the piper too much money for them back in January. Bitmine.ch is keeping their prices around $26/chip right now which is way too much considering the other prices on the market that are getting close to if not already below $1/GH/s

A1 chips are being sold for less than $15 per chip on the black market in China. This is the reason for "A1 Clones" for dirt cheap.

nTek Computers, Inc.