I've been mining this coin continuously since launch with my Asus R9 270x, only have about 180k coins. I settled on buying the 270x as my old Radeon 4890 was not cutting it for games anymore, but was really looking at a 280x when prices were sky high. I bought the 270x at $240 off amazon and then promptly lost my job the next day. First few days I spent mining random coins until I found the announcement that this coin would be launching soon. I spent the rest of the time making sure my card wasn't a dud, it kept giving me artifacts on the desktop for a few days, but finally settled down and only firefox/palemoon show artifacts, but from what I have read that is due to the browser itself. I would love to see this coin become profitable, it just feels like a good concept
If you happen to be running the 14.x beta catalyst drivers they are solid but do cause artifacts on desktop and in browsers. Known bug with the driver. I'm only running them cause I have the THIEF game that uses the mantle API and boy does it offer a performance increase!!!
waltsmith
I am running 13.12
I found a config for regular scrypt that the 270x can hit 500kh/s stable, I just can't get it to translate to scrypt-n, best I get is 230kh/s which is 20kh/s lower than I would like, but I'll deal with it. I also found a workaround to driver crashes/low hashrates. Device Manager > disable adapter and then re-enable it and your low hashrate should go back to normal once you reload vertminer/cgminer/sgminer.
I am fairly new at this mining stuff and wish I had gotten into mining back when Bitcoin launched when I first heard about it. I attempted it, but at the time felt it was just too difficult and dropped off. I think, at the time, Bitcoin was worth $0.10. I am really kicking myself about that.
I wouldn't mind seeing your scrypt config. I am getting 480 on my 270's and 490 on my 270x's right now, so pretty close but wouldn't mind a bit more.