huh?

I sold at $19. Double the price before the halving, precisely what they should have sold for for the last month. So all that hoarding of coins before the halving has paid off.

Whatever the cause of the rise, i'm happy!

Have there been any updates to the case at all?

Not according to my calculations

My gpu farm at current btc prices will only generate about $5 revenue (roughly 3000mh/sec)
Same gpu farm will generate about $10 worth of litecoins.

At least at last night's prices.

I just did a quick calculation and it appears litecoin as of right now with a ltc price of $.08390 is about twice as profitable as bitcoin mining... which would be where we were prior to the split.

Looking at litecoinpool.org the pool hashrate has gone up 50% since the btc split so its obvious everyone agrees that litecoin is where gpu miners will now be going as bitcoin ASICS won't work with litecoins and litecoin ASICs are not even being developed.

If i'm missing something crucial here someone correct me.. but at this time it appears that ltc is the way to go.

If I lived in British Columbia or similar this guy would have more of a valid point. In terms of electric and heat though I (unfortunately?) live in the southern united states so there are still days where I have to use AC. December should end all that, but I did not disclose this so I totally understand why the arguments for continued mining were made.

It is a gamble. I believe my solution is to sell my cards for "market rates" which usually takes time. So I think i'll mine with them and shut down and sell off as they sell. I remember when the $2 per coin price hit I sold a lot of my 5000 series cards for decent prices (slightly below market) and at the point I was just trying to break even. Luckily I did but it was still 2 or 3 months of listening to fans in various rooms for nothing but some fun experience.

Again, with ASICS on the doorstep its either shut down now or shut down when that package is opened... which is who knows when.. but supposedly soon.

I was really hoping that in the 10 hours since the payout drop we'd see coin prices move to $14+ but no such luck. I'll give it some more time before ebay and craigslist become my mistress.

If you are unfortunate to have electric heat I guess that is true. For those of us with natural gas heaters, using miners as heat would cost more.

I just did a calculation based on current price of $12.31

Mining profitability (my rigs) per day: $5.29

Cost of whole house per day electricity (most recent bill): $4.86
Cost of mining rigs (which help to heat now): $3.44

So it appears bitcoin would still pay my electric bill plus about $10/mo and reduce my gas bill somewhat. Not enough to keep $1200 worth of GPUs unsold.

I'll give the coin price a few days to rise. If it doesn't, shutting down. In reality, with ASICs right around the corner, its either shut down today or what, shutdown in a month or so?

Thats what I thought. However, I don't get it. I verified that the HD was still spinning but indeed the watts used was down to 96 from 106. This is total system wattage. The system is just an intel g630 / 8GB / 2TB HD. Without the video card in the system and using the IGP it only uses 25W total. So this 7770 uses somewhere between 71 and 81W while hashing 205MH/sec @ 1100 / 300. Unfortunately games cannot be played @ 1100 but hashing seems ok.

Yes I can verify its @ 1100 / 300. I had to drop back to 12.3 drivers with the 2.7 sdk. I'm not sure if 2.6sdk is faster, haven't tested it. 12.6 drivers did NOT allow me to downclock vid memory below 925. 12.3 does. Hope this helps someone.

Wow this card is very strange. Last night before going to bed wattage was 107W for entire system. This morning wattage was 96W. I know these cards do something called a long idle but when checking the temp history it had stayed at 70C. Looking at the Mhash, average was unchanged @ about 205mhash for 1100mhz core.

I guess shutting the attached screen off on these cards drops their wattage down a lot? With the long idle this puts this 7770 at about 71W total for 202mhash. Pretty good!

Well I finally found that going back to 12.3 fixed it or "allowed" me to use a combo of afterburner & barely clocked to sneak in the memory settings to 300mhz.

I've been a casual windows bitcoin miner since last june, mostly using guiminer and Poclbm at about 1.2Ghash with mostly 6000 series cards, but this is my first 7000 series card.

So far I've only been able to get the MSI 7770 to about 1075 getting 203Mhash with diablominer.

But I can't find a program that will underclock my memory. This 7770 is using a ton of wattage at 925mhz memory (1075-150 = 925mhz), about 88W. Anyone have a way to downclock? I've tried afterburner, barelyclocked sapphire trixx and cgminer.exe --gpu-memclock 300 commands all to absolutely no avail.

Info:

Windows 7
12.6 drivers
amd 12.7 sdk

I've also tried the 12.7 beta drivers too. Memory does not budge. Is this a known issue with 7000 series cards or is there a solution i'm not finding? With all my 5000 & 6000 series cards afterburner or barelyclocked or trixx all seemed to work with various success. Not so with this 7770.

Any help MUCH appreciated!

No luck with riva either

I haven't tried riva yet, but yea, trixx didn't help. I've mined on 6970s, 6770s, 5750s, 6670s, laptops, etc. I think this issue is isolated to the 7000 series. SO I figured someone with a 7000 series would know. Like maybe 12.5 drivers allows downclocks, etc.

I'll give riva a try in a bit.

Make sure you have your 6pin PCI-e power adapter plugged in. 40Mhash seems about right if you don't have the power connector plugged in.

Since i"m new (don't have the requisite numbers) to post to the appropriate section, i'll have to post this here.

I've been a casual windows bitcoin miner since last june, mostly using guiminer and Poclbm, but this is my first 7000 series card.

So far I've only been able to get the MSI 7770 to about 1075 getting 196Mhash with -v -w128 -f10.

But I can't find a program that will underclock my memory. This 7770 is using a ton of wattage at 925mhz memory (lowest I can get it in catalyst), about 88W. Anyone have a way to downclock? I've tried afterburner, barelyclocked and sapphire trixx.

Info:

Windows 7
12.6 drivers
amd 12.7 sdk

Also, if theres a better miner for the 7770 let me know, I'd be glad to try it.