What I'm going to do now is to mine Monacoin here on MPH for three days, then on suprnova for 3 days and then I'll compare average hashrates and profits.
Bad approach. If you want to compare 2 pools, you have to mine in parallel. Otherwise, the results are not comparable as the net difficulty in 4-6 days can be completely different from days 1-3!
You are right, I have not considered difficulty change.
I'll do next: I'll run two instances of ccminer with 2 GTX 1070 each: 1. MPH, 2. Suprnova
24 h should be enough to make conclusions.
Please keep us updated on your test
Thanks
Sure, I'm already running the test. I'll update you tomorrow.
It would be nice if someone else could also run a similar test just to get statistics. As admins mentioned earlier (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=472510.4840), this is a known issue, but some users do not experience it.
I'm using tpruvot ccminer 2.2 and 372.54 nvidia driver. I wonder if it can be miner/driver versions dependent.
I have tested suprnova it worked out immediately - online pool hashrate catched up the miner speed for 1min after launched!!! Then even surpassed a little and after that it went equal with the miner speed
I use ccminer-x64-2.2.3-cuda9 and NVIDIA driver version 23.21.13.8843 from 27/11/2017
Now there is new NVIDIA driver from 07/12/2017 but I can't decide do I want it or not, because finally I see what I should see.....
If it ain't broke....
Seriously, if you have a 100 card server farm, you should leave it alone for now. And then on a separate test machine with one card in it, you can play around with bios mods, new drivers (or block chain drivers) etc. When you get the test bench running the way you want it, and if there is a statistically significant gain, then start porting the changes to your the rest of your rigs.
Otherwise, sit back, and monitor it. Things will change all on their own, and everything will start crashing, without you changing anything.
I had a rig running equihash mining zec on nanopool. Dialed in the afterburner settings. Everything was fine. Left town for a 5 day trip, and everything crashed on day one.
By the way, I hate the way Microsoft updates production machines while they are working. Next, I hate that afterburner doesn't necessarily restart the fan settings. Sigh...