Meh I don't think it makes up as much of a % as the Nvidia fans would like to believe.
Would it be possible for amd to add asic capabilities to their gpus? I just have to imagine they will lose a lot of market share now that mining is no longer a reason to buy amd. I for one would go back to nvidia just so that I can enjoy multi gpu gaming again.
Stop moving to LTC, you had your run!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flood of miners is reducing the price, and the GHs for the network is skyrocketing
I thought the price of LTC would rise when more people started moving to it. More exposure, more transactions....higher price?
Damnit Mt.Gox, hurry up and start trading LTC already!!!
Nope, the LTC:BTC trading ratio has fallen and continues to fall, fall, fall. Even worse, difficulty continues to rise. The result is that it's usually about the same profitability to mine LTC as BTC. Of course, it's barely profitable for most people to GPU mine BTC now, so that means it's also barely profitable to mine LTC. And it's just going to keep getting worse as more and more hashing power gets added to BTC and flees BTC to reside in LTC.
Power prices aren't the only cost factor btw, one of my card's rear fan acted up so badly that I need to send it in for warranty repair, plus it keeps depreciating in value every day. I'm going to sell the repaired card ASAP to try to beat rush to dump used video cards.
Yikes. 19,339,258 BTC difficulty. At 9 cents per kwhr my ~$3k in GPUs (6x7970 + 4x7950) is currently netting about $8 per day and that is just because 8 of the GPU's are in the garage. Unless there is a spike in BTC price this week I'll probably shut down my rigs at the end of the week. Getting awfully hot in the garage for such a small profit.
yeah it is almost over. I will give it to july 1st then I shut down.
I thought the price of LTC would rise when more people started moving to it. More exposure, more transactions....higher price?
Damnit Mt.Gox, hurry up and start trading LTC already!!!
If AMD can't fix Crossfire, I'll switch again at some point.
its broken?
been doing it since the 48xx series, and the only one I had serious problems with the 4850X2
you guys looking at shutting down.....
if you want to be nice to a fellow AT'er...I could use another 7950 on the cheap
TF3 of WF3
Maybe you should look into one of the dozens of new altcoins that are springing up. Odds are one of them will be somewhat popular...
Unless the alt-coin significantly improves on BTC, I doubt it. Clones and near-clones aren't going to go anywhere. Increasing transaction confirmation times is nice but LTC and FTC haven't gone anywhere and every time it becomes more lucrative to mine those, arbitragers hammer their prices down to the point where they are about as profitable to mine as BTC. And difficulty increases as GPU miner refuges try to find something else to mine, adding more downward price pressure.
In the meantime video cards depreciate in value, and can die from fans being overstressed. Probably better to get rid of "excess" cards and if a truly significant challenger emerges, to get new ones then if you really believe in it.
Nope, the LTC:BTC trading ratio has fallen and continues to fall, fall, fall. Even worse, difficulty continues to rise. The result is that it's usually about the same profitability to mine LTC as BTC. Of course, it's barely profitable for most people to GPU mine BTC now, so that means it's also barely profitable to mine LTC. And it's just going to keep getting worse as more and more hashing power gets added to BTC and flees BTC to reside in LTC.
Power prices aren't the only cost factor btw, one of my card's rear fan acted up so badly that I need to send it in for warranty repair, plus it keeps depreciating in value every day. I'm going to sell the repaired card ASAP to try to beat rush to dump used video cards.
Cthulhucoin would be way trendier.
looks like bbq coin is the newest