I was thinking about this earlier, does anyone know how hot GPUs run mining bitcoin? If that runs cooler I would tend to think the extra power draw and heat is because scrypt pretty much rewrites the entire ram available as fast as possible over and over again, whereas Bitcoin/Darkcoin would only use a small amount of ram.
You aren't kidding.. I just checked my 270's and they are only utilizing 150-200 MB's each..
I wonder how the 260x hashes on this algorithm.. anyone here have one?
I don't have a great gpu, but I did notice that I could set the -I up way higher mining darkcoin than I could mining litecoin. FYI so give it a try??