Was your conclusion that the power costs would outweigh the value of the mined bitcoins, or that the value would be marginal enough that it's not worth the bother?
A combination of the two. Power costs plus wear-and-tear on mission-critical components weren't outweighed by the tiny amounts of money we'd make.
To be fair, there's a bit of a conflict between the best rendering hardware - Nvidia, because of CUDA - and the best mining hardware - ATI. Obviously, I'd have been mining on NVidia. However, the numbers didn't even make much sense using ATI.
Bitcoin mining has been screwed because of the dedicated hardware, which has meant a flood of miners into Litecoin - which has proceeded to screw the Litecoin ecosystem too.
I shall keep an eye on the situation - I suspect there will be pockets of opportunity in the future. But right now, not so much.
To be fair, there's a bit of a conflict between the best rendering hardware - Nvidia, because of CUDA - and the best mining hardware - ATI. Obviously, I'd have been mining on NVidia. However, the numbers didn't even make much sense using ATI.
Bitcoin mining has been screwed because of the dedicated hardware, which has meant a flood of miners into Litecoin - which has proceeded to screw the Litecoin ecosystem too.
I shall keep an eye on the situation - I suspect there will be pockets of opportunity in the future. But right now, not so much.