I finally got around to playing with my 2 Fury's.
Thoughts:
1. DHL did a security check on the package, and it looks like they opened tapped it shut. Luckily nothing was missing, and the package arrived within two days of shipping from Hong Kong. So kudos for DHL.
2. The Fury are packaged really nicely in solid white boxes; lots of protecting foam. The fans are unplugged from the Fury inside of the packaging, but it's easy to plug the fan power cable into the Fury.
3. The power supply (Brick type) is the definition of "no-name". There isn't a company listed on either the all white box it came in on the power supply itself. I wouldn't put much faith in the CE FCC symbols listed on the bottom. The brick also would get pretty toasty; more then it should be.
4. The Fury itself feels solid, but light. This makes sense because the board itself that contains the chips is pretty small, and the heatsink appears to be made out of aluminum. The fan seems to be decent quality, and they used 4 bolts screws to attach the fan to the heatsink. I believe the Blizzard from Zeus only uses 2 screws to hold the fan grill on.
5. I found this to be a little funny GAW might want to contact the manufacture. The silkscreen on the heatsink that says GAWminers The Fury is upside-down when the miner is sitting on its feet. Looks a bit odd due to this. Doesn't affect anything performance wise, but cheapens the look a bit.
6. The two included USB cables are very flexible and white colored.
NOTE: Both USB cables were a really tight to fit in the USB socket's on the Fury miner's. Please be careful when plugging them in; you don't want to snap the port off. 7. The fan on the Fury is quieter then the fan on a GridSeed 5 chip. This is really good news; I was worried about running these in a bedroom.
8. Blue LED's illuminate when the software miner has connected to the Fury, and this lets you know it's hashing.
9. The cgminer that is available seems like it needs some work. I was having some issues with the cgminer sitting on shares for almost 30 seconds, and then dumping it as stale. The number of HW errors and rejects is also pretty high. I'm going to try it on my laptop and the Zenminer eventually.
10. At 328 Freq. I was seeing around ~1.3MH but I can't say for certain due to the cgminer issues I was experiencing. The average hashrate would drop during these issues; I'm going to try another pool.
11. The included power brick is most likely not going to last a year. I remember reading that GAW was offering a
one year (looks like it's 6 months now) warranty on all of these miners. I really hope the power brick is included in that warranty. I'm going to place the brick's behind the Fury to try and catch some of the airflow.
12. The Fury itself does get slightly warm on the side of the heatsink. This makes sense seeing how it's dissipating about 40w of power. The good news is that the included fan heatsink is able to keep it cool.
13. Having issues getting Zenminer to work; was able to setup the miner, but after logging out I couldn't log back in. In contact with Zenminer trying to fix this.
TLDR:Fury looks nice, includes everything you need to hash, power brick gets toasty hot, ~1.3MH, cgminer is a bit wonky on the computer I tried it on. I'll try it on my laptop and let you guys know if there's a difference in performance. Also, GAW did everything they said they'd do and the product is hashing faster then advertised. I just wish the power brick was better quality. Maybe in future shipments they might want to change it out; reduce warranty issues.
