I want them mining what is currently most profitable on MPH. Looking at the View Details > Profit Switching tab showed Eth (incld. Blake 2b) as most profitable when it was switched to it. 90% of the time they are doing Equihash / NeoScrypt / Skein from what I've seen over the last couple weeks. Ethereum surged in price recently though and took over during dips in the other algo coins which is why it became most profitable I assume?
Rigs are running 8x1070 GPUs and I'm not sure about your question about correctly benchmarking? It seems relatively straightforward. Tools > Benchmark > Precise benchmark with all Algorithm's selected. Is there something else I need to do?
That's odd. What is your benched hashrate for Ethash vs. Equihash for those 1070s? I just ran another benchmark for my 1070 rig and I have 21 Mh/s for Ethash, and 412 sols/s on Equihash. Now, granted, I have my 1070 rig's power limit and underclock tuned for low-wattage Equihash, but there's no way those numbers would make AM switch to Ethash.