I would like to compare electricity usage because here is not cheap :p, I was able to squeeze more from my 280xs currently my rig has ~66-70MHZ using 530W. Anyone has measured this?, maybe getting less hashrate is more efficient if the electricity is expensive.
Every mining rig is going to be different. Best advice I could give you is to pickup something similar to a KillaWatt meter
https://www.google.com/search?q=killawatt&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ei=RAhrU-PNB83YyQHu0YHoDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=927 Obvioulsy it needs to work with your country's electrical system but you want to get something similar to this. You can then tune your system to get the best hashrate per electrical unit used.
Yes I have one, that's how I know the current usage, I just want to compare with others, that is the best that I can do at the moment and I have a quite efficient PSU, but still is not too much profit.
Also I am interested in solo mining, anyone has been able to do it ? can I use the cgminer from 1ghz because it didn't work for me
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Cheers!.
Totally not worth doing with current difficulty IMHO. You could get lucky from time to time but could go a long time without finding a block which gets frustrating. Better IMHO to see smaller but consistent coins coming in on a routine basis. All three of the MNR pools I believe charge 1% or less in fees so there is really nothing to gain but frustration by trying to mine solo at this point.
There are several reason why I want to do this, first the selfish greedy reason is to get more coins. Maybe is not worth doing now that the block reward is still 75, but after it is stabilized around 50 why not ?
In the long run it should be 1% more coins due to the pool fee, but there is something else very important, the efficiency of the miner is directly related to the difficulty, that's why you see more hashrate using VIP as password at 1gh pool, the change is less dramatic as the diff increases so I maybe a VIPVIP with 2.5 diff or VIPVIPVIP for a diff of 8 will render the maximum result. I don't have the numbers right now I will measure in the evening and will report later how much more efficient it is to hash with a higher / lower difficulty.
Also there is the security of the network, I don't think it is a good idea to have all the hash in only one pool. And to keep the pool operator honest it might be a good idea to try to split the hashrate, yesterday I tried using nonce but the dashboard was showing consistently 50 MH while cgminer shows 70MH, 1gh reports 66-72MH at the moment.
And my final and most important goal is to learn
I want learn how to set up a p2pool node, but for that I first have to learn how to solo mine properly lol.
Cheers and thanks for your reply.
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