What is interesting is the reports of the people producing 25,000 khash/sec with their video cards in the CUDA thread. If they are using less than 1000 watts (and should be), it would be profitable again to produce, electricity wise.
Difficulty level 1000 by year end.
i just did a short test on the lately released cuda-client, here's the results
AMD X3 @2.8ghz
->stock client
~3800khs ~150Watt
GTX260
->puddinpop's cuda client
~33000khs ~200Watt
cpu-work isn't profitable for me anymore, i already shut down most generators at the latest diff.step,
gfx-crunching would indeed be profitable again,
i don't really wanna trust a client that fondles with my balance on it's own though, so i don't use it.
hopefully we'll see an open source client some day.
but your joking about that 1000, arent ya?
end of the year?
maybe end of the week.