Who is quitting mining due to block halving? - page 3.

bcpokey

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Quote from: jermwerty on November 29, 2012, 01:55:02 AM

$0.058 KWH here...

Can I *borrow* your rigs for just a bit?

Wink

I actually traded up, and focused on 7970s/6950s at the end... I miss the 5970s but I knew trading them out for 7970s was a smart thing to do.

Wish I knew how fast ASIC is getting here...

As I recall from my days long ago, 5970s were far more efficient devices for $/Mhash and even Mhash/J than 6950s, and I assume by extension 7970s. Or are the 7970s a lot more power efficient? I haven't kept up on cards in a while.

layyen

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3* 6870 - very hungry rig Sad

4*6770 - not so hungry but nearly umprofitable..
switched to LTC for some time..

heat from the rigs is valuable for me during winter..

jermwerty

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$0.058 KWH here...

Can I *borrow* your rigs for just a bit?

Wink

I actually traded up, and focused on 7970s/6950s at the end... I miss the 5970s but I knew trading them out for 7970s was a smart thing to do.

Wish I knew how fast ASIC is getting here...

cdb000

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I set all my 5870s and 5970s to run at 600MHz, 0.95v. More efficient and (just) profitable.

During the winter, I'll keep them going because, even at break-even, the heat has value.

Come warmer weather and I'll quit mining.

bcpokey

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Quote from: Wave on November 28, 2012, 09:29:58 PM

I'm considering it given:

4.5 GH/s with electricity at $0.14 per KW/H I'm looking at a profit of maybe $20 USD per month. I.E. not worth my time and I want my gaming rig back, lol.

But I still want to support bitcoin so I setup a full bitcoin node today! :-)

-Wave

Kudos to you sir. And you've given me a good idea too. I've long been thinking about getting one of those cheapie little low-power computing devices like a BeagleBone or RaspPi, to play with, and potentially run future mining operations on, but I never really could think of anything entirely USEFUL I'd actually want to do with them. Running a full node on such a device would be low cost, a mildly interesting learning experience, and quite useful as well (I'd like to support bitcoin as well).

Wave

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I'm considering it given:

4.5 GH/s with electricity at $0.14 per KW/H I'm looking at a profit of maybe $20 USD per month. I.E. not worth my time and I want my gaming rig back, lol.

But I still want to support bitcoin so I setup a full bitcoin node today! :-)

-Wave

Stephen Gornick

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