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Anyone test the power consumption of the algo versus X11 and other algos? Just curious about the results...

Full config with one 6950@6970 :
x11 = 195w
khc = 240w

I'd bet this could be improved upon. Unlike BTC wallet, KHC does not generate 'dummy work' when there is none so that is a big bonus for solo miners but while pointing at the pool I have yet to see my miner go idle when there is no work available, aside from that KHC is quite new being a 320bit hash so the miner kernel could potentially be optimized quite a bit more than it is. Took a while before a DRK (x11) optimized kernel was released with sgminer, and it was improved upon further recently.

with the newer kernel switching on the fly miners this could be very interesting. you could mine this until a blocks solved, then while theres no dummy work it could switch kernel over to any stratum server, then flip back when it notices work available from KHC. with 3 minute blocktimes there will still be plenty of idling. or if you didnt want to mine something else and deal with pool/kernel changes... the first powersaving improvement would be to stop the GPU from trying to hash the nothing and go to idle while waiting for the next work.

The GPU does go idle while waiting for the next work, as the pool is running we generate a tx when the mempool is empty, keeping your miners running nearly 100% of the time, you would see the same result if you was to solo mine right now as well.

weird i didnt notice my miner slow down when solo. will investigate