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So just wanted to post a tidbit now to raise awareness in case any other nvidia people are here.
In order to mine scrypt-jane coins the current cudaminer source can be compiled into a windows binary - this means there isn't a current binary supporting scrypt-jane that you can download and install from the cudaminer developer, but you can build an executable yourself.
Scrypt-jane support isn't in the 12-18 release of cudaminer. The developer hasn't been optimizing script for cudaminer lately, and only focusing on scrypt-jane - it is up to twice as profitable to mine yacoin (scrypt-jane) on nividia as it is to mine litecoin (scrypt).
This is important for example, because nvidia sucks for mining litecoin compared to AMD. For example a 5870 ($100-150) does 400kh/s and a gtx 760 ($200-250+) does 300kh/s with a solid overclock. So the 5870 is roughly 25% faster. However mining yacoin on scrypt-jane is almost twice as profitable as mining litecoin currently, which means you can earn more with nvidia GPUs than you could on 5870s and even newer GPUs on AMD. Furthermore, scrypt-jane is really effective for mid-lowend GPUs, so you can build miners relatively cheaply.
A 660ti for example can do roughly 3.5 kh/s on scrypt-jane. This gets you about 120 yacoins a day, which exchanges to .00452 BTC, or $4.20/day. Compare that to mining litecoin at 350 kh/s, which gets you .09 LTC a day, or $2.43/day.
So basically, if you have nividia hardware it can be pretty damn profitable to mine on it right now - equivalent to mining LTC at 600 kh/s (that would require a 7950).
In order to mine scrypt-jane coins the current cudaminer source can be compiled into a windows binary - this means there isn't a current binary supporting scrypt-jane that you can download and install from the cudaminer developer, but you can build an executable yourself.
Scrypt-jane support isn't in the 12-18 release of cudaminer. The developer hasn't been optimizing script for cudaminer lately, and only focusing on scrypt-jane - it is up to twice as profitable to mine yacoin (scrypt-jane) on nividia as it is to mine litecoin (scrypt).
This is important for example, because nvidia sucks for mining litecoin compared to AMD. For example a 5870 ($100-150) does 400kh/s and a gtx 760 ($200-250+) does 300kh/s with a solid overclock. So the 5870 is roughly 25% faster. However mining yacoin on scrypt-jane is almost twice as profitable as mining litecoin currently, which means you can earn more with nvidia GPUs than you could on 5870s and even newer GPUs on AMD. Furthermore, scrypt-jane is really effective for mid-lowend GPUs, so you can build miners relatively cheaply.
A 660ti for example can do roughly 3.5 kh/s on scrypt-jane. This gets you about 120 yacoins a day, which exchanges to .00452 BTC, or $4.20/day. Compare that to mining litecoin at 350 kh/s, which gets you .09 LTC a day, or $2.43/day.
So basically, if you have nividia hardware it can be pretty damn profitable to mine on it right now - equivalent to mining LTC at 600 kh/s (that would require a 7950).