[YAC] Is yac mining pointless ?

[Tamis]

Thanks for all the replies !

Regarding cpu, my i7 3770k oced @4.4ghz gives me something like 135kh/s on win7 64 with avx instructions

[gappie]

The price of Yac on Bter.com will soon hit 0.0002 BTC. There is just one bid holding it up at 0.0003 at 6k Yac. When that falls it a new low. Sell now.

[fenican]

If you want to subsidize a handful of people running GPU ports, i.e. HAND THEM YOUR MONEY, then sure feel free to mine and buy this coin.

If not, let it fall back to zero and move on ...

[bitdwarf]

I mine YACs with GPU... by mining FRC and selling them to buy YAC. So I'm mining as many as the guys with a modified GPU miner, without moving a finger.

[procrypto]

I think, perhaps, noone has bothered to put the effort in, to make it GPU mineable, because it's value is so little, what's the point?

If you want to subsidize a handful of people running GPU ports, i.e. HAND THEM YOUR MONEY, then sure feel free to mine and buy this coin.

Have you guys even taken the time to find out what's going on with regard to GPU implementation?  

So far, we've got a handful of people with relatively unsuccessful GPU mining, and one extremely experienced and competent dev (creator of Reaper) who has indeed got a working GPU implementation, but which will stop working in August.

If GPUs are dominant, how is it that difficulty is falling, block rewards are rising, and my lowly i7 (cranking out 120kh/s) is earning a gradually increasing 30-40 coins a day from p2pool? How is the p2pool even finding blocks if GPUs are dominating?

[Thirtybird]

I don't see how windows 64 makes that big of a difference - I don't think we're at a point where addressing > 4 GB of memory is important yet...

The x64 miner comes with AVX instructions (available since W7 SP1), that's what makes the difference, and a big one.

I did a double check to see what the requirements for AVX were, and from what I found it looks like it's an extension to x86 (so not required to be on x64).  The windows optimized miner comes with an x86 AVX enhanced executable, but I can't vouch for it as I haven't tried that one, since all my CPU's that support AVX are running x64 Windows.

[Thirtybird]

If GPUs are dominant, how is it that difficulty is falling, block rewards are rising, and my lowly i7 (cranking out 120kh/s) is earning a gradually increasing 30-40 coins a day from p2pool? How is the p2pool even finding blocks if GPUs are dominating?

I'm with you on this one - the network hash rate is rising - was 84MH/sec last week, 111MH by friday and up over 125MH today.  We're seeing more people mining this now than there have been in a while.

[cryptrol]

I don't see how windows 64 makes that big of a difference - I don't think we're at a point where addressing > 4 GB of memory is important yet...

The x64 miner comes with AVX instructions (available since W7 SP1), that's what makes the difference, and a big one.

I did a double check to see what the requirements for AVX were, and from what I found it looks like it's an extension to x86 (so not required to be on x64).  The windows optimized miner comes with an x86 AVX enhanced executable, but I can't vouch for it as I haven't tried that one, since all my CPU's that support AVX are running x64 Windows.

True, I didn't notice that the x86 version also came with AVX and wrongly assumed it was only for x64 processors.