price for Crysis 2?

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6100/dilbertrandom.gif

Sorry, couldn't help it 

Long round, then two blocks found one after another (vladimir is on to something here  )

I have a feeling we are still running below the expected average, hopefully the variance makes a turn in our favor now!

Edit:
PS
Working on the banners, but RL is very very hectic right now so not getting much spare time. Still planning to contribute, just need to make some time!

Bitcoin sends some "change" back to a fresh address that's supposed to be in your wallet. What if somebody changed that to be in their wallet instead... Would you even notice?

Let's see how things went:

1. PayPal cuts off Wikileaks
2. Anonymous rallies people to target PayPal with LOIC DDoS
3. ...
4. People start getting arrested
5. Anonymous calls for people to cancel their Paypal accounts

How it should've been done:

1. PayPal cuts off Wikileaks
2. Anonymous calls for people to cancel their Paypal accounts

Major difference!

Interesting! Perhaps Artix boards will have a better $/MHash ratio? Any good synthesis runs you could share with us?


I reposted your request in mpfrank's thread

Any chance of seeing the code you developed? I am very curious and would like to try it on the LX150 devboard I just purchased.

Also see this thread:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=29169.0

I'm taking the plunge and getting the ZTEX LX150 board to teach myself about FPGAs, and provide feedback on the real-life performance of the LX150.

I'm a software developer and electronics hobbyist at heart, but FPGAs are a different animal completely so support by the experienced people here will be much appreciated   

Yeah, that's the main issue here. There's always the 30-day trial to start with. I was actually going to write Xilinx and see if they are willing to contribute some ISE licenses to this project, provided that it is properly open sourced. I wouldn't write them however until we have a clearly stated project license type in the first post, or a webpage. Xilinx seems to support educational and non-commercial institutions, I was able to find some references to Xilinx license donations.

I agree 100%, that's exactly why I posted this, perhaps not being too clear about it. I treat this as a reference point, perhaps to learn from the design also.

I might get the board just to get a start with FPGA's, but otherwise it is reassuring that we seem to be on the right track complexity and price-wise.

This is a scam, you are guaranteed to lose your money.

fpgaminer's post basically summed up and closed the discussion, and we are doing the scammers a favor by keeping this thread alive.

I suggest that this thread is closed and buried until somebody comes clean with some proof.

Consider this design:
http://i.imgur.com/2EtkH.jpg
The ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15d LX-150 based, with a Cypress EZ-USB for flashing, feeding the FPGA with data and USB communication. Uses only one 24MHz oscillator, some schematics available on their site:
http://www.ztex.de/usb-fpga-1/usb-fpga-1.15.e.html

By the way the price of this one beats the Opal board I mentioned earlier. Got an email quote at a unit price of 357EUR, power supply not included.

As for dev boards, the $995 is probably the "Avnet Spartan-6 LX150T Development Kit" (http://goo.gl/S8oHN). This is a LX-150T board (note the T). The upside is that includes the ISE Logic Edition software, node locked to the LX-150T device. Normally the unlocked ISE Logic costs ~$3000

The cheapest board that I found at $750 is this:
http://i.imgur.com/uNDK3.jpg
The Opal Kelly EM6010-LX150. USB 2.0, externally powered, and with a LX-150 (no T). http://goo.gl/LbCWu

It doesn't include an ISE LE license though, so unless you already own one (I certainly don't) you won't be a happy customer.

For volume orders (50+), the price of the EM6010-LX150is $649,99. Another price reference point for us perhaps. Still way above the design target cost for the Modular FPGA Miner.

I do believe that this pool has potential, which is why I stuck with it through the first very unlucky week. And then wham - 3 blocks in a single day.

I will create a couple of banners for the frontend and forum sigs. I'm no PHP developer, but I'll have a look at the code anyway and see if I can contribute any ideas on how to improve.

What happens if another block is found before the first one has 120 confirms? How are the payout shares calculated then?

First block found!!

The site offers no proof whatsoever, and just attempts to pass itself as credible by posting claims of performance. Or promises of providing proof.

Consider Artforz who made his own ASIC miner - he had no problems sharing quite a few technical details about his design. Nobody managed to replicate his results because of the huge initial investment required.

Epoxy on chips for preventing reverse engineering? There are sites on the net where you mail them your ASIC, and they will sand it down layer by layer taking pictures at high magnification.

Only thing to be hidden here is that the mythical ASIC doesn't exist. I would say that this is an elaborate scam attempt. Even if just a few people fall for it, it will still have paid off. Expect delays, stories of "Paypal problems", requests for additional money wires.

It took 2 years for the Spartan-6 to become widely available in numbers since announcement, so the Artix-7 is somewhere on the horizon. Interesting to look at, but will be out of reach probably until 2013.

That is splendid news! Let the word spread!