I just got myself ASUS 5830 last month from eBay for $110. I'm currently mining at 334 Mh/s with it. I already mined 4 BTC in about 35 days. Another 2-3 months and it will pay for itself.
Entire system is using ~200W measured with KillAWatt, so in 35 days it used 188kWh ($17 of electricity at .09/kWh).
5830/5850 seem to be the biggest band of the $ spend on them.
Entire system is using ~200W measured with KillAWatt, so in 35 days it used 188kWh ($17 of electricity at .09/kWh).
5830/5850 seem to be the biggest band of the $ spend on them.
Play with the parameters of "cgminer" and also try to do an "undervolt". This will reduce the Mhash/s but may enhance your Mhash/W, thus saving you money while mining. The highest Hashrates usually will cost more power/Watt.
Actually, I already played with all the parameters and all the miners. I'm using Phoenix 2.0 for mining (it can also be controlled by using RPC-JSON from the website). it seems that Phoenix 2.0 is the fastest miner for this card. The card is clocked at 1020Mgh and memory is clocked at 300Mgh.
Once the Miner is stopped, the system by itself is only using 92Watts, so video card itself running at 100% load using about 110W (which is not bad for 334Mh/s)
