is there a way to choose a payout amount on this pool?
No, you get payed out in full block amounts when it's your turn. 5 ether each time.
sounds good.. 5 ETH payouts...small payouts with decimals like 1.xx are a bit messy, thanks
Ethpool is good, it pays the transaction fee as well.
looking at the faq page
there are two mining options..
Stratum mode using Stratum Proxy v0.0.4 by dwarfpool
and
Stratum mode using QtMiner and vardiff support
any opinion which is better?