Why you didn't say that 

I thought that pre-order means that you are just collecting money to buy chips from hash last.
So you have already received chips and are in your ownership ?



That would change my position then

Probably time to think about ordering PSU and cooling equipment.

Timelines that are of course subject to change (this is Bitcoin after all, you'd better believe I got the extra flight change insurance on my tickets), but from the word I'm getting is that they will run the bottom sides Monday, and we'll get the first articles on Tuesday afternoon for verification. After that, it will be full production of the board. I'm not sure when they'll all get through test, but I would guess shortly after Memorial Day if nothing seriously goes wrong.

So you have already received chips and are in your ownership ?

BTW after a board count (boards+chips) we have some extras for sale for batch 1 if you still want in.

Cheers..

Can one of the Project leads compare the Habanero board to the new Virtual Mining Corp. board, the Fast Hash One Gold Rush.
I would like to know why your's is better.  (serious inquiry)

Very helpful.

And what makes them "the best"?  I'm not saying they're not, but perhaps some real reasons may be a little more helpful in convin ing someone to pay $1100 for a Mr.Teal board instead of $900 for a VMC knockoff. 

Well, the VMC board is the Evo board.

There are a few software improvements that we're porting from the Chilis such as having the ability to auto clock the voltage and frequency to max out your thermal headroom. This is probably even more important with these boards since they tend to be thermally limited more than anything.

Hardware wise, most apparent difference other than the board being slightly larger will be our addition of a custom backplate to both sink heat from the VRMs and board in general as well as to support the chip. Make no mistake about it, dissipating 600W from a chip isn't easy, and you need a lot of pressure to get good enough contact to do that. The stock backplate that ships with most cpu coolers isn't up to the task of preventing board flex in really high pressure installs and you will get board warp. Our backplate bears right on the PCB under the chip to support it with minimal flex. The added bonus is that at high hashrates even an efficient VRM needs cooling. Having a heatsink added helps reduce the amount of air you need to move to do so, increasing efficiency.

Outside that, there's the intangibles. We'll be burning these in long enough to test that they function as expected, and then shipping them. They're not pulls from a personal farm and you don't have to hope that we're pulling a random one instead of just pulling a weak performer and sending it to you. Then there's customer service; we do screw up and miss an email or message now and then but our primary focus is on making, selling and shipping boards. We're not going to sit on our "in stock" boards for two+ weeks before shipping them because we're too busy trying to figure out how to run a mining farm. I won't lie on the specs; while we quote the DC power of the board since we're selling raw boards and the wall power will be installation dependent, those are measured results. We say 650GH/s because we're confident that given proper cooling the boards will all get there. This isn't authoritative as I've only had a few samples, but I think even 700 should be achievable for most people with good cooling. However 750GH/s will probably be very hit or miss, and 750GH/s at 0.833J/GH is a blatant lie.