and there is not such thing as free power, that is called stealing, not possible here, efficiency matter more for me than initial investment
In my country the power is $0.05 a kwh in the summertime.
A 290x will use $0.3 a day and make $5.
If the power is cut to 130w u save $0.15.
it's cut to 100w which mean 160w saved = almost 4kw a day saved, in your case only $0.2 a day saved = $6 a month saved for each card(if you have a farm, like 100 gpu, this is still huge saving)
but not everyone has 0.05 electricity, for those that have 0.1 or 0.2, consumption matter more
btw were do you live with 0.05 electricty? i know that in some of those place with cheap electricity, their cost of living is high, like in iceland
Here are the new numbers and this time its for windows (will tell more in a week or so)
I was able to use beta afterburner and minimum tdp is 75w - at this point without boosting clocks to your 970 style (+150 gpu and +150 mem) just stock its 20mhs at stock with 90w it is 26mhs and at 100w its 27mhs
If you boost clocks +150 both it is 26mhs at 85 and 27mhs at 90W
Its also true for any other algo (+150 clocks)
- 24mhs Quark
14mhs lyrare2v
11mhs x11evo
at 100w
Neoscrypt was 620khs at 110w
But thats all with not final board - when have a chance I'll run the numbers on the final board
BTW - I tested with power meter this time - nv-smi is really accurate with pascal
As with 1080 - for now - no news - it is possible that things will improve much but so far no change
As for changing the mining world - I think it does in a way that nano prices should go down, and 480 is a big question - for me its interesting on the compute side - how it does in other than eth algos
But because we all know what eth does on top boards - with new gpus it should be dual algo era - SP might comment on possibilities to implement other algos beside decred
