Quote from: cvax on February 26, 2014, 01:18:29 AM

Adding Monitoring as well as Fail Over will be a huge step toward moving Nvidia mining beyond Hobby-scale (<10MH/s).

On a side note, I've noticed that the topic of Hash per Watt has only ever come up seriously for the Maxwell cards due to how improved it is over the comparable AMD setups. I realized that we almost all look at how high we can tune the hash-rate on a given card, but I don't think anyone has seriously delved into tuning a card for the best Hash/Watt. We've made comparisons between each algo and associated tuning but the main driver has been hash-rate > all. With these new Maxwell Cards it might be a good idea to start seriously exploring Hash/Watt since we are on the cusp of legitimate wide scale use of NVidia

Remote API
Fail Over
Hash/Watt increase

I'm excited to say the least Grin

though patient as you will get to it when you get to it

I have done a lot of spreadsheet math this past week analyzing how to make Maxwell profitable nowadays. All of the online calculators I saw are 100% useless and do not even come close to giving you a clear picture on profitability due to the structuring of these various coins. Obviously hash/watt is a critical component that can make or break the investment, but through all the variables I've tracked and differing values I've tried it isn't as important as other factors. The biggest most important one being coin selection (and maybe BTC/USD rates).
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Profitability, such as the craziness surrounding the MAX release where you just wanted to throw as much hash at it as possible and damn the power draw, can easily trump a Max/Watt. I'm not saying that Max/Watt should be pursued to the ends of time, but it DOES need to be a consideration for any build as well as tuning.

There is a point when Hash/Watt is a bad thing and while Maxwell does very well in this it, does mean that older legacy cards will not do nearly as well and really anyone intending to seriously mine with an older card needs to take into account Hash/Watt for each Algo and really examine if this is a hobby or something they intend to make money on. Scyrpt-Jane at lower -L can really sit back and sip at wattage wher a full blown -L 6 or Scrypt mining can make you really examine your power bill

TL;DR - Hash/Watt is a necessary consideration for everyone