Look forward to be a part of it.

LOL

Might as well, no one else will listen to me!  LOL

So with ccminer finally supporting X11, I've moved my Nvidia 750ti rig over to mining darkcoin (which felt AWESOME). Some rough numbers:

5x 750ti cards at load:
- 7650 kh/s (1530 kh/s per card)
- 240W total system draw at the wall

So if we assume ~40W draw from rest of the system (motherboard, cpu, hdd, psu inefficiencies), that leads to some pretty nice stats

38 kh/s/W for Nvidia 750ti (1530kh 40W)
22 kh/s/W for AMD 7970 (2200kh 100W)

From memory, this is even better performance (relative to AMD) than scrypt gets. Which means Nvidia is the clear winner for X11 mining, at least for the moment.

I had a hunch this would happen. Only, we don't know if it is a little too late for nVidia to the crypto party, time will tell. I saw Block Value go to 7 DRK a little while ago, unreal.

I had them overclocked for scrypt mining, and it made an appreciable difference. I did try to OC briefly when using ccminer but it actually dropped the hashrate, and I haven't had time to play with it more. So these 750ti figures are at stock speeds. Actually come to think of it, the 7970 figures are overclocked & undervolted, so it's not a totally fair comparison, in that the 750ti could probably do better than the figures i have here.


That won't tell us too much, since ccminer puts some load on the cpu. A better way to get precise figures for per-gpu power draw is to add/remove one card at a time and measure the difference in power draw.

Scrypt on these 5 cards gets 1475 kh/s @ 430W at the wall.

Well, it looks like we're going to hit the minimum coins to be paid, 5 coins per block, very soon.  I believe if this continues, we'll only ultimately mine 11 million coins, no?  The 22 million or so coins originally predicted assumed a much less drastic increase in hash rate.

yep, i followed all these instructions, my home router IP is shown in the list still instead of the IP of the EC2 instance.