On the day when this 5MH/s card could come to my house (3Q

), R9 290X price can be 1,5-2 times lower than now. I'm not sure is it a great deal
Besides.... it's useless for the other purposes
How much energy and how many cards would you require to get 5Mh/s from R9 290 cards?
Answer - At roughly 870Kh/s it would take you 6 cards (roughly 350X6= 2100 bucks). 6 cards would use 1800 watts of energy.
So, by waiting as energy just makes it cost prohibitive where I (and many others are to Scrypt mine) I can get 5Mh/s for 1350 bucks and use only 80 or so watts of energy.
Of note, though I doubt it continues, is the LTC difficulty is falling hard. Due to Doge or?
Now, I understand that the above is not true for everyone but it is true for many. Also, there is no way I could either handle 1800 additional watts on my current breaker nor handle the
cost of upgrading each of those NOISY cards with upgraded cooling (as they are just no available, though I got lucky and found 1.)
IAS