At my power cost, there's no point in "efficient" on ZEC mining at this time, I NET more by not being efficient and I'm nowhere near power limits on the new place.
whats your power cost? I'm jealous I pay 10.5 cents kwh that's awesome though keep me posted, I will be messing around with those cards sometime next week, or preferably i'd like to just sell them as all my other cards are X size and theyre 1.5x X size lol
Well under 5 cents / kwh all-up.
There's a REASON I spent most of a month last summer moving from Iowa to "The Land Of Very Very Cheap Electric" in Central Washington.
And yes, the Aorus are bloody huge 3-slot cards - been a while since folks MADE cards that huge (I have a HIS IceQ blower model HD 7870 that is ALSO 3-slot, but only the BLOWER area is that wide).
They're no worse than some of the other cards out there - at least one Zotac model and at least one MSI model are JUST as huge.
They have awesome cooling though for air-cooled.