- Mining pool selection - I set up SiaMining at first and was getting around 80SC/hour. In the spirit of decentralizing and supporting good pools, I swapped over to Luxor, and my SC/hour was much smaller. After over 90 minutes it was estimating about 30SC, so I reverted back to SiaMining. However, I just refreshed the Luxor page and it is showing 362SC for just under 2 hour's work. Why does the number fluctuate so much, and why was that figure so delayed? Is that typical with Luxor, or is it due to the nature of PPLNS? Also, it seemed to take MUCH longer for my hashrate to reach ~800 on Luxor (30 mins or so) vs. SiaMining where I had full hash within a couple minutes. Or should I go with F2Pool instead? Haven't tried that one out yet.
- HW error rate - People have been mentioning HW errors as "a lot of errors" or "an acceptable rate", but I haven't seen hard stats on what those rates actually are.
Is 0.01% too high? 0.1%? 1%? I'm currently at 0.006%... - Overclocking - Given my stats above, I'm surprised everyone is having to underclock their miners... I guess I'll chalk it up to it being reallly cold outside at the moment. However, I'm looking to overclock my miner, at least during the day when I'm gone and don't need lower fan speeds for noise. I'm not going to touch anything until my Kill A Watt shows up and I can monitor power draw, but with the EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 Gold on a 110/120v, 20Amp dedicated circuit, what does everyone think I should limit my at-the-wall wattage to? Also I'm more than happy to get a read on draw at a multitude of frequencies since seems other people have also asked for that as well. Curious about HW rate tolerance as well.
I am jealous of your temps.
1) Mining pool--Luxor is having some sort of problem where their luck is currently at about 40%, so they switched over to PPLNS from PPS. Which means you get paid out in an average over time, but with their luck that low you're still going to make less right now (in theory). Siamining is PPS and currently paying out well. I'm with you though, I prefer Luxor and will switch back when whatever problem they're having gets sorted.
2) .01% is fine. .1% is ok. 1% is too much (opinions vary, but that's my standard).
3) Your cold air is your advantage, these things run hot. But I have mine overclocked (650 currently but usually 631). Overclocking voids your warranty, fair warning there. Your at-the-wall is your call; you can calculate profit with usage deducted at whattomine.com, it's usually pretty close. On a 20a 110 circuit, I'd suggest limiting wattage to 1700W for safety, you likely won't get anywhere near that though. HW isn't necessarily higher at higher frequencies, it depends. 631 drops more than 650 for me. It's more machine dependent.