No. That is your logic, not mine.
There are plenty of unmoderated Monero threads already.

_{This was the last free bump you got from me. Best of luck.}

I completely agree with dEBRUYNE. In fact, I'm fairly convinced that this is just the latest installment by the Creative Troll^(tm).
With regards to this forum, and speaking about thread moderation specifically: free speech = free trolling. There are absolutely no complaints about the other speculation thread, yet you created a new forum account for this specific purpose. Sure ... I've been around long enough to know what this is about.

Repeating:
Newcomers, please just stick to our ANN or speculation thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.new#new
&
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.new#new
Makes no sense to open up an additional thread.

^ Emphasis mine.

This is right on point Smooth. I just peeked at the Minergate stats for their AEON pool, and it shows about 6400 workers right now... I dare speculate this is some botnet's new home (Minergate, that is). Adding that they run a closed source pool, could/should we remove it from the OP's pool list?

I'm back running a light-node since the latest release, but not mining right now. I'll be back solo-mining as soon as I can dedicate the CPU time again, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. Any reasonable/recent CPU will earn you a block every two or three days, while a high end one should get almost a daily hit. 

Yep. Which is why the 750TI is still king in terms of efficiency. Though personally I've never seen anywhere close to 250W per card, and I'm using overclocked (and undervolted) 980's. Still, the fact is that the higher end cards are most definitely more power hungry.

The extra cost of a larger PSU offsets with other parts though. Assuming the same total hashrate, you'll use less motherboards, cpu's, ram, etc, if making multiple rigs based on the 970 instead of 750's. Spend more on PSU, spend less on other stuff. Also to keep in mind, for some people, space savings are important, for others, not at all. So there's other things to consider beyond the hardware specifications.

Heat is fine. Winter is just around the corner 

If my quick 'n dirty math is sound, I wager that the 970 offers the most hashrate per $ (or per BTC if you prefer). The 750TI has better efficiency, but costs more to build whatever overall hashrate target, and that's without even taking the density limitations into consideration.

_{Pascal, where are thee, Pascal?}

No disagreement here!   

Looks about right pallas, since that is roughly double the performance for that same card on regular cryptonight.
Note that the high end nvidias do not hash particularly well with either version (cryptonight or cryptonight-light), the best performance per core and performance per watt are by far in favor of the 750TI. Maybe you could fix this? 

Sidenote: IIRC, djm34 is already working on improving the cryptonight ccminer base. Once that is done, an improved cryptonight-light version should be fairly easy to build.

Right on point bathrobehero. I neglected the SMM/SMX difference between the 980 and 970 upthread.

https://github.com/cbuchner1/CudaMiner/blob/master/README.txt#L131

Ideally, one should run with low'ish -L values, but there's different sweet spots for maximum performance vs best efficiency.
A higher -L gives you the most performance potential for a given compute capability, especially useful in high end cards. A lower -L gives you the most efficiency, and it is especially useful in lower end cards.

Hmm. My settings are based off the 980, though for this algo I'd expect that same settings would work for your 970.
One last shot, just for the 970, you could lower the thread count (replace 48 with 32, if still not working, 24).

Typo alert, corrected below and on my original post:

./ccminer -a scrypt-jane:15 -L 8 -l t48x8
./ccminer -a scrypt-jane:15 -L 4 -l t48x4

[...] perhaps try with -L 6 for both also.

I don't have scrypt-jane:15 settings around, so I'm guesstimating what should work based on the launch parameters I have for scrypt-jane:16. By the way, this: scrypt-jane:1402845776,4,30 doesn't tell me the current nfactor, unless I have a miner at hand (which I don't). I am assuming you need nfactor 15 in this instance. I find it easier to just set a fixed nfactor and be done with it. During nfactor changes, one always needs to switch to different parameters anyhow, so it's not really adding any work.

So here's some settings for you to try out if you want. I haven't tested these at all, I'm just doing simple multiplication based on some nf16 settings I have on my archives.

./ccminer -a scrypt-jane:15 -L 8 -l t48x8
./ccminer -a scrypt-jane:15 -L 4 -l t48x4

One of these should hit a performance sweet spot, if not, perhaps try with -L 6 for both also.
Some settings will not work on Windows, and even those that do, run much slower there.

Given how it was tpruvot that originally added support for scrypt and scrypt variations to ccminer (from the cudaminer base), perhaps his thread is a better place to discuss further -> ccminer by tpruvot

See, I strongly disagree with this argument. If tomorrow we had 10 or 5 second payment confirmations, would the userbase magically explode? Hardly. What is missing in virtually every crypto-currency in existence, is a meaningful use case, and one in which the convenience trade-offs are reasonably balanced with whatever functionality is introduced.

The strongest use case for Monero, is that it offers secure and decentralized private transactions.
No gimmicks, no enrich-me-nodes, no semi-centralized mixing, no vaporware du jour gamechanger tech that will-never-be.
Available today, truly private and untraceable.

Growth will slowly materialize if we continue to observe a steady increase in market adoption and sustained community expansion (so far, so good).
MoneroDice and CryptoKingdom are both important examples, however early stages for either of these. The more services developed around Monero, the more we increase it's usefulness and effective worth.

Thank you for the updates Smooth, very neatly timed as I finally have my (light) node back online, yay!

Unofficial binaries for the brave (or impatient?) Windows folks:

Aeon-Win-x64-0.9.5.0
Aeon-Win-x64-0.9.5.0-light-node

Ran a brief smoke test on both versions and all looks well.
I'm staying on the pruning node for long term testing.

Thanks for the update guys.
Looking forward to that wallet upgrade and running a Skynode! 

Removed my BTC bid. I maintain my XMR bid though.

Wolf0 will always do a good job, if nothing else, because he has a reputation to maintain! 

@t-nelson: I think you'd find plenty of people willing to trust a completely new, closed source miner, as long as it was published/developed by a trustworthy person. That is the case with Claymore's Cryptonight miners for example.

It so happens that not a single person has shown interest in developing such a miner for the Nvidia crowd.
It is obviously (a lot of) hard work, and not certain to ever be worthwhile for the developer venturing on this. There's also various limitations of technical nature that result from a fee based approach, but not worth getting into that discussion, if we can't even get past the interest stage.

Wolf0 had been doing something of the sort (own miner developed from scratch). Maybe he can share his experience on this, and we'd get the point of view from someone on that side of the fence, someone that actually spent some time on a similar project.

Yep. That's the model I've been looking at most closely. I've been forever waiting for a low cost mobo with the Atom C2750 (way more powerful than the N3150), but it does not look like one will ever exist...

The only reason I haven't thrown some money at the N3150 or N3700 yet, is that I'm hopeful that some vendor will offer a barebones version that includes some mobile Nvidia chip onboard. That would be the perfect lightweight node for me. A low cost, compact and efficient platform, with both some CPU & some GPU compute capability.
FWIW, I think that there are plenty such devices based on AMD silicon, as well as mixes of Intel CPU w/onboard AMD GPUs. For some reason, I really dislike AMD's GPU parts, so there's that.

If anyone comes across such a device, please post about it. The only other thing on my wishlist, is that the onboard Nvidia be compute 5.0 or higher, no matter how powerful. Cheers! 

Awesome! I'll venture getting a low power ARM box to run as a permanent local node for AEON, if this works out favorably       


Agree. The Intel stuff just seems to bump the budget by quite a bit, but there are definitely some really nice low power CPUs that would do very well with Cryptonight & -Lite.
My dream box for a low power node that would run multiple coin daemons as well as solo mine, would be something using the Atom C2750, or for even less power, Pentium N3700 or Celeron N3150. Pair that with an onboard mobile Nvidia Maxwell chip, and I'm all in!