Dear all,
I wanted to pose a bit out of topic question to fellow miners & GPU mining-farm owners.
Now, with asic's already jumping on scrypt pools and GPU farms yielding low (<50%, unless you have free electricity) yearly ROI, I start to think of end-game scenarios for GPU mining.
What will you do when the profit is down to 0% (earnings=cost of electricity)?
A) Sell your hardware? Buyers won't be queing up, since the cards were heavily abused...
B) Start a GPGPU/ OpenCL & CUDA compute cluster? - Limited application as gaming cards are slow with double precision arithmetics. On the other hand TFLOP-wise these cards are sick fast on single-precision when compared to the price of Tesla hardware...
C) Start a 3d-render farm? - Does anyone even use these things? Movie companies have their own and complain that double-precision is not even enough for them and they use CPU farms.
D) Another (viable) option is to set-up a remote gaming service, allow people to play games on your high-end gpus. There are a bunch of commercial systems (e.g. Onlive), most of them suffer from internet lags, so your small farm could be a better option for your neighbors who are geographically nearby. But again - software (exists, open source and others), game licenses...
What do you think/plan?
Endgame for GPU not even close. I dont know why so many GPU rig owners believe this is the case.
try a different algo: X11, X13, Scrypt-N just to name a few. Do some research and you will soon find these equally if not more profitable then vanilla script coins.
