I am in the same boat as you., well said!

I think now is not the time for mission creep.

Get the board working as intended. Then revise for additional capabilities. There is nothing wrong with having different versions of the board IMO.

FTFY

Thanks... ill edit it...

About the OC
Maybe just make 2 types?

One standard and one OC

I can imagine that the OC-version will die sooner than the standard version.
Also, the OC version needs more (additional) power and active cooling, which makes it a more difficult task to mine.

I'm the leader of a group buy and I think most of the members just like to get a simple miner with just a PCIe-power supply and a passive cooling.
Most of them also ordered x*16 chips. So the "14 chip solution" is maybe not the best one, although I can imagine that people would trade the chips amoung them so some additional K16's K14's could be ordered.

Sweet! Thanks for all the hard work, and the progress updates! Very exciting.

I'm not sure I be able to stand ~36 hours without another status update?!  LOL j/k - try and relax a bit while you're way.

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Regarding the request to replace components with more capable ones to allow for OC'ing...how hard would it be for the end user to replace themselves...assuming the end user is able to acquire the parts and takes responsibility for the outcome of modding the board of course.

Correct, K16 basically is like a "hub" with 16 I2C devices (one per chip). Chaining & testing several K16 together on I2C should take no more than 2-3 days of work.

The TH board is functionally equivalent to four K16's linked together with i2c.