Im going to use these figures, pulled out of a post a little way back by a well know member of our community. Im going to consider that these figures are in the ball park of correctness but it does not particularly matter for the purpose of this exercise.
5000 DGB of mining
SHA-256 ASIC using 2.4KWh
Scrypt ASIC using 7.5KWh
GPU using 9.9KWh
Then using some special magic, Im going to make SHA size of the network just over 4 times bigger and the Scrypt size about 1.3 times bigger. Abracadabra, they are all on an equal footing and the DigiByte network is considerably stronger than it was before I used the special magic. Im going to need to use a bit more magic again when the latest ASIC technology hits mining.
I know I dont really have any special magic to use, thats why knights are so important!
We could follow the other suggestion that has been made to tackle this issue and do away with the ASIC part of the network and replace it with other algorithms but I will argue that this would require more hard forks and would actually leave our network weaker than it is already.
I don't want to get entangled in this too much but I just wanted to mention that I've been able to undervolt my 280x and mine qubit to get about 11 MH/s and that only runs at about 150 watts according to my Kill-a-watt. 11 Mh/s is roughly about 5k dgb per day which will put my 150 watts at about 3.6kw per day. Still not as efficient a sha256 asic but a lot less than the 9.9kwh mentioned above. I am guessing that's for either Skein or Scrypt on a GPU.
Great to see your presense Kayahoga, as always. Those are some very impressive results indeed! Let me guess, a dual card NVIDIA rig?
Phenomenal.
Actually its not NVIDIA, its a single AMD MSI 280x. My "gaming" rig. Undervolting is the key, you cant do it with every card which is why I went with the MSI 280x. Back when I had my rigs once I figured out how to properly undervolt I was saving about $50 a month in electricity with only sacrificing a small amount of hashing power.
Wow! That's more than double the hashrate I've ever seen published for a 280x (
http://asistec-ti.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=38 ). Incredible. And you're still mining and those are current rewards?
EDIT: if you post your configuration, I'll add it to the list.
The magic isn't in the config, its the new optimized miner. Check out the miner's from nicehash. They keep up on all the latest builds and optimized kernels.
Either way...I use --intensity 18 --worksize 64 -g 2 A 280x is one of the few cards that should always have a -g 2, my engine stays at 1020 since I'm undervolting. I am pretty sure if I threw more juice at it I could go for 1100 and get close to 12 MH
Edit: Yes I'm still mining, just on my gaming rig with a single GPU, mining away today on my 280x