Re: [ANN] Hash Auger 1.8.8: Multi-Pool GUI Mining Software for NVIDIA Cards
What is a reasonable setting for a spike limit? I found that the most of the day the profitability is higher than $3.00 a day per card, but most of the time the profit per day per card is about $1.00 per day. I do not under stand it.
Personally, I use a Price Spike Limit that is around 150% of the average estimated earnings per card. Using your example, I would set a limit of $4.50 for a GPU that averages $3.00. That amount provides some room when values rise, but avoids work that is going to draw a lot of attention from other miners and is most likely based on an inaccurate data.
I really think that the x11 price issues on BlockMasters have hurt your earnings. Since x11 is heavily mined by ASICs, it is almost never profitable to mine on GPUs anymore. I have kept x11 disabled on my rigs and I have made more than $1 a GPU in the last eight hours on that one pool plus earnings on a couple other pools. If you have already upgraded to 1.8.8 of Hash Auger, you may want to enable the MC Parameter for BlockMasters. I have found that individual coin prices are better on that pool than the traditional auto-switch ports. The only issue is that the C11-based coin ChainCoin has some issues on that pool, so you would want to disable the C11 algorithm on BlockMasters.
A couple other tips to possibly help your earnings would be to try a slightly longer switch interval by increasing the Pool Refresh Rate to 15 minutes and to set the Min Price Switch % to at least 12%. These settings can help you build larger shares in new coins and help offset the cost of switching work too frequently.
If i look now i see lyra2z suppose to give me around 3$ a day with blockmasters
If i look at Aweseome miner they say 1.42$ a day, almost exact same hashrates.
Hard to see which one to trust atm
I'm not sure what source AwesomeMiner uses, but Hash Auger gets basic pricing information from the pool and then uses that information along with its own performance factors in its calculations. Some other software may use WhatToMine or an equivalent in its own calculations. There are trade-offs to both approaches. The price estimates provided by BlockMasters do seem to be on the high side and the inconsistent hash rates on some of their algorithm ports can hurt the timeliness of payouts, which makes it difficult to evaluate their accuracy. On the pricing tab for BlockMasters, you can enable the Use Actual Prices Instead of Estimates setting to use the pool's historical performance instead of its current estimates. Once the pool rates refresh (or you restart the application), you should find the prices to be a lot more in line with current expectations.