Well, here's my unofficial results. I say unofficial because I screwed up my test on smartcoin. i forgot to up the ltcclk back to 328. But for half hour at 290 mining smartcoin with diff byte size between 45-100k, I was using 550 from the wall for 30 min. that's 1100 -10%=1000 - 125 mobo. 875 Watts. problem is, i'm solving blocks solomining, but not getting credit for them. I'll possibly cause a fork or 51% if I stayed on it. Seems to me, we are forced to use 900+ Watts.
EDIT: This was conducted at 290. So to use manufacturer setting at 328 will cause more power, more HW, and uncredited blocks. so basically its pointless to mine low diff or net hashrate coins, in order to obtain the manufacturers power range.
Now the difficulty is at 9 after its been less than 1.... I can't get real test done. Back to mining real coins.
Don't worry as power reports will filter out and people will learn what the zeus/gaw miners really get.
my 16-17 watts an mh for ltc mining with gridseed blades are done with a hi end platinum psu the seasonic 1200 watt model
http://www.amazon.com/SeaSonic-ATX12V-Platinum-PLATINUM-1200-SS-1200XP3/dp/B00JG5LSN8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401649879&sr=8-1&keywords=seasonic+1200I paid 287 for this. and I have a few sets of these
http://www.gawminers.com/6-pin-pcie-to-3-x-2-1mm-barrel-tip-power-cable/you can not get a much more efficient piece of gear then the above psu.
If I use this psu
http://www.gawminers.com/12v-30a-360w-led-switching-power-supply/ I will jump at least 15-20 percent. so my 16-17 watts per mh will become 19-21 watts per mh
I have both and have tested them both.
The little bricks are worse 20-25 percent more.
So if you are running a lot of machines furies you should use
http://www.gawminers.com/6-pin-pcie-to-3-x-2-1mm-barrel-tip-power-cable/and maybe this
http://www.amazon.com/Antec-EA-650-Platinum-Power-Supply/dp/B0064LWI40/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401650265&sr=8-2&keywords=antec+ea+650I own one of these also good it can run 6 to 12 furies.
6 if you use 2 of these
http://www.gawminers.com/6-pin-pcie-to-3-x-2-1mm-barrel-tip-power-cable/ 12 is you buy 4 of the above and 2 of these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-6-PIN-PCI-EXPRESS-Y-SPLITTER-POWER-CABLE-15-MADE-IN-AMERICA-/261366480644?pt=US_Power_Cables_Connectors&hash=item3cdaa7ff04my point is I think the fury may run at 40 watts or maybe 38 watts with a plat psu and you may be doing 1.3 mh
this gets you to 29 -30 watts an mh . still not as good as a gridseed blade. we need more fair tests of gaw/zeus gear.
I can show ltc tests for gridseeds and I will post photos here of the exact setup on monday..
you can then hope for some real photos and proof of gaw-zeus miners to make a fair comparsion.
I will post my setup on the gridseeds with a few photos. Hopefully people will post real shots of gaw results to compare.
here are 2 gridseed blades and 1 five chip gridseed pulling about 10.48mh hashrate
these use about 170 watts on a k-watt meter ltc only on cex.io that is only the gridseed and comes to 16.23 watts an mh