I'm also running much slower and hotter, but the payout is looking like it will be better than other pools. Still I don't like giving up speed and running hotter. Right now I am just testing things out using the 2 cards that have always been my most stable and have always run the best using the same settings. My 270 is ok a bit warmer but very few HW errors, my 270x though is much hotter and for some reason slower than the 270 when it has always been just slightly faster. In 4 hours and 45 mins I have 28 hw errors compare that to 10 hours on the 270 with only 7. I have dropped intensity well below my norm and tried quite a few different intensity levels but the hw errors still seem to pile on pretty quickly, whether it is overclocked or not. I like the miners stats but wonder why we cant tune the cards as much in the .conf like you could on sgminer, ie. worksize and thread concurrency. I'm sure your already hard at work on the next update to the miner 1.1 did help a little. Would be nice to get close to the performance and temps i had been running on sgminer, I'll keep going with these 2 cards as things improve I'd like to point everything I have at dashminer. Anyone running a xfx 270x black getting better than 40-43% and cooler than 77*, would help a lot to know your settings.