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.
I use Guiminer with my Sapphire 7950. It has run for weeks on end with no problems or restarting but just notice that it was not recording its work on my account page ( stopped recording sometime yesterday), so I restarted and is fine now. So it seems Something happened on the Pool yesterday that was out of the norm. I have it overclocked and I get just over 600MH/s
I also run 15 USB asic miners and use BFGminer. Once again I have run weeks without restarting with no problems. When I do start up the USB's BFGminer turns my GPU fan up all the way which after they get started I just go into my GPU settings and turn the fan speed back down to where I want it. I run the fan on manual as to keep the temp around 72-75C if not the auto keeps it at 80C.