Is there a method for viewing real time hashspeed in windows? right now I'm using CPU miner as depicted in this guide, it is working and my pool is reporting approximately the hashrate I would expect, but it would be great to be able to see real time speed, so I could tweak/troubleshoot the devices when needed. If not in Windows, I could switch over to Xubuntu on my laptop and control the devices from there, if there is a way in linux...
Right now I have 3 devices (more arriving today), they are powered by a Corsair CX500 PSU, all 3 running off one PCIe 6pin plug. I have to say that right now they are pulling way more than the "8 watts" advertised in single mode scrypt... My Kill-aWatt meter is reading 170 watts at the wall for the 3 pack (psu plugged into meter). Also, I have these running at 800 right now. At 850 I noticed some nonce errors, and a lower hash speed reported by the pool... and oddly enough, at 850 the units were pulling LESS wattage, about 120watts as opposed to 170 @ 800. And finally, thanks to those who put work into this guide, it's been real helpful!
You are pulling 170 for three units in scrypt mode? That sounds more like the SHA cores are still active.
In windows you can switch to cgminer/bfgminer forks which have support and see hashrate. For now the only official or mainstream miner is cpuminer with no hashrate shown.
When CPU miner starts I noticed that it reported "single mode", so i assumed it was in scrypt only, aside from that I am not sure how to determine which cores are active... but yes they are running at 170 watts so I will definitely investigate your theory regarding the active sha core further... I am not familiar with what you mean by "switching to a cgminer fork", could you expand on this, or maybe direct me to where i could find more detail on how to achieve this? Again, thank you!!