Forgetting the price of the card, is the 970 and the 980 the new 750ti? Meaning watts per hash. If you had a free choice, would you take 3 750ti or 1 970 or 1 980 keeping in mind watts per hash only.
Its why i started an open source campain :
https://pledgie.com/campaigns/27288don't forget to sent me money too... my btc address is in the signature... take advantage of the low btc rate
I can do some maxwell 2 tricks too (and actually I did it already with coinshield

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I think we will see soon some gpudevcoin with ICO on bittrex

I undervolted the 290X and dropped volts even more on the rest. Results:
Freya, mining Neoscrypt (custom kernel):
Total draw: 560W
Total hash: 850kh/s
270X: 115kh/s @ 975/1500 & 975mV
280X: 229kh/s @ 950/1500 & 975mV
290X: 273kh/s @ 900/1500 & 1112.5mV
7950: 231kh/s @ 950/1500 & 975mV
Settings:
Intensity 15, worksize 64 for all
TC 16384 for 270X, 49152 for 280X & 290X, and 32768 for 7950
GPU threads 1 for 270X, 280X, and 7950, and 2 for 290X
Still profitable.
may-be I will look into neoscrypt at some point... currently there isn't much of anything profitable... (but for the moment I am optimizing some stuff... )