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've been using the Actual Prices option for this pool for the last day and the estimates seem more in line with those of other pools. The only coin that seems to have an above-average price on this pool with this setting turned on is PigeonCoin, but the pool found a ton of that coin in the last 24 hours which means the actual prices for that coin are most likely above-average. Between enabling this setting on this pool and the new filtering of inactive ports in Hash Auger 1.8.9, you should see some improvements in your performance on this pool.
This pool has a lot of potential, but its current level of mining activity may not suit everyone's preferences. Some miners prefer pools with more activity so they can accumulate payouts faster. I'm not that impatient, so I don't mind being one of a few miners working on finding a new coin. For example, I have a few cards mining PigeonCoin on this pool. It has taken hours, but I have earned some pretty impressive shares in new coins by being one of a handful of miners. That's why I hesitate to give advice about specific pools because not everyone uses the same mining strategy.
Regardless, keep me updated on your experience with this pool and the software.