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I received my X-1 today. And now the fan doesn't spin up. Angry

After several months of waiting the only thing I can do with it is playing some Android games. Undecided

And I thought it can't get worse...

I saw on their forum that sometimes the fan connectors are installed backward. try flipping it.

Tried it already. But it didn't work. The fan is definitely broken. I connected a CPU fan to the connector on the X-1 and it spinned up. Then I connected the X-1 fan (some Cooler Master 200mm fan) to a motherboard as chassis fan and nothing happened.

You should complain! The unit is obviously faulty!

Let us know how that RMA goes.

This time they're really quick. Not even 12 hours after opening the ticket I got a tracking number for a replacement fan.

WoW, totally unexpected.
How is it with that X1, how many procent of you inital investment do you think you can get back?

I think the only way I will get anything back is by selling it on ebay. Even then it will be a loss. As energy costs are quite high here in Germany it will produce even more losses when switching it on.

Did you try to downclock it? It can work at 0.5w GH. at 40 GH/S total Consumption about 25w, if you remove fan and LCD as well place smaller fan like 20 x 20 mm it will be even less. Best i got was 19 W per 40 GH, and it worked without fan.

40GH earns you $2.18 per week at the current difficulty. You pay just over half of that in electricity at current German prices. So not making a loss, correct, but no chance to break even either. A couple more difficulty increases will kill even that meager profit margin.

Thanks to BA's eternal delays, not a single customer will ever have a chance at breaking even on their purchase price, unless the price of BTC skyrockets again.