...annnnd it's paid for itself, USD-wise. 33 BTC earned in just 91 hours. Shocked

on which lucky pool you are?

Well, uh, I didn't mine BTC the whole time. Some of the time I was [solo]mining TRC, which I then dumped on an exchange for BTC.

Sadly, mining to bitcoind directly does not work well.

I use eloipool with bitcoind.

Could you explain what about it doesn't work well?