Again I have not pulled the trigger on an A4 but doing the numbers I get this. (I am using the free below calculator to do so)
www.litecoinpool.org/calcI'm using the following figures (hosting 12c kwh w/fees) at 280mh and 1000 watts (been my experience asic's always run higher watts then the specs)
at $4.10 LTC price I get the following
A4 price of with shipping ($2,000 usd?) add MY dual 2560 server platinum psu rigs for total of 300 bucks (maybe double that if 2 psu's at your end) I get $2300 complete.
the link to the hack to do so below ..and you can either get a heavy duty backplate (15awg) or just add your own as a previous poster mentioned to make such 15awg when
modding the backplate.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1553386124 hours 2.80509961 LTC 11.50 USD 2.88 USD 8.62 USD
7 days 19.63569727 LTC 80.51 USD 20.16 USD 60.35 USD
30 days 84.15298828 LTC 345.03 USD 86.40 USD 258.63 USD
So ASSUMING by some chance difficulty was to remain the same (snicker) or maybe by circumstances of LTC price and difficulty rise balancing out to the same (snicker snicker)
I get 8.89 months for ROI.....
Kinda ugly ...and my server psu rig is 1/2 the cost of what I'd get instead ..that is 2 corsair 1200i's at 300 usd each Newegg (on their monthly sale) so sheesh...MAYBE you could
run this beastie with ONE PSU..my experience with Titans I'd rather run 2 Corsair 1200i's and over kill with their 16awg wires running 1/2 and KNC PSU splitters additional protection.
A corsair 860i would probably be over kill but I have Titans and switch around so would need the Corsair 1200i's etc in case if not running the above server psu hack in the Jupiter case.
Thus my savings of 300 over what I'd spend ..just saying..
With the expected difficulty rise in LTC from the A4's and the sale to the big boy data halls before us (investors they got) we need a heck of a lot better price point then $4.10 ltc imho
anyway just my view on pondering this...but damn we need BTC to pump and LTC to follow damn it !