I've joined with single 7850 GPU and making 0.01 BTC a day which isn't bad. There were two minor incidents that I'd like an answer to.
First, yesterday I heard my GPU cranking really loud and upon inspection I was getting several hundred stale (connections?) in GUIMiner. At this time my account showed 0 hash rate. So I restarted my miner and everything came back to normal. I'd like to understand what happened there and what I can do to avoid it or possibly burning out my GPU.
Second, today everything was humming along and at the end of my work day I checked my account and it sowed last share 7 hours ago. I don't think I had made any contribution during this time. However my GUIMiner was clicking just normal showing 352 MH/S - In statistics, I have no shares from 19195 to 19199 while GUIMiner seem to be running normal. So I'd also like to find out what happened here?
I'm getting some USB ASIC chips on Monday and plan on changing over to BFGMiner. Is this the right thing to do with slush's pool?
Appreciate any input and keep up the good work.
See my above post regarding your second question. There was definitely something wrong with Slush's setup this morning.
Your first questions sounds like either your GPU faulted (too hot, too overclocked, hardware problem) or GUIMINER had a connection issue related to your second question. I have personally not used BFGMiner, but I have used CGMINER and GUIMINER. CGMINER is far superior in its informational feedback and software options (overclocking options of your GPU built into the software). I only use GUIMiner on my windows machines that are used for other things and I can't mess around with them too much. CGminer takes more time to setup and is more finicky with OpenCL drivers. It is much easier to setup on Ubuntu (I use 12.04 LTS on my main mining rig with 2 7870 XTs and 7 ASICMINER Block Erupters). If you are familiar with linux or up for a challenge, I would HIGHLY suggest researching and setting up a machine running Linux and CGMiner. The pool management options are extremely useful when mining on Slush since we occasionally (not often, but still) experience server issues. My main rig will immediately switch to BTC GUILD in the event cgminer cannot communicate with stratum.bitcoin.cz ...
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Again, just my $0.00 Again, just my $0.02