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Nvidia locked down a lot of functionality on their cards to start with. OpenCl runs slow as death on Nvidia cards and Cuda is better but still isnt great. Their cards have potential but with how they run now they will never be good for hashing. Nvidia designed their cards with graphics in mind not computing, AMD did both.

Your 680 is on par with 7970s/R9 280x and most of us run 3+ of them. The main reason why people don’t use nvidia is power/KHs ratio…its the same reason we don’t use CPUs to mine any more. I liked my Nvidia cards more than my 7970s when I first got them but AMD has put a ton of work into drivers and that has made a huge difference.

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yea i bought a few of these about 4 months ago @ 20 dollars each. Then sold mine for about 30 each. The hype has driven them up in cost because people are buying them left and right expecting to make money mining. The truth is… 50 dollars each is a huge rip off. These are a great tool to learn with but that is about it.
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So for mining feathercoin, would you say its better to invest in say an ATI card for a few of these USB asics?
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You cant mine FTC/LTC with ASIC.

Buy few GPU and mine :)

Makes sure you have the updated CUDA Toolkit :
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

and give this miner a go:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0

Cheers

Thanks :)

Nice, i have added myself to the map, cool feature.