Whew!!!! 43 pages but I finally reached the end!!! I was directed to this forum by @michelem from another forum where I was posting regarding Minera. I wanted to see what other Blade users were discussing. I have now been working with Minera for nearly a week and I think I have found a sweet spot which gives me better results than I have ever had before. My equipment: 10 Gridseed Minis on one RasPi and 3 Gridseed Blades on another RasPi. I got the 10 Minis stable at 3.6Mhs poolside average at Clevermining using 850mhz and auto tuning but I am still getting more hw/rj than I would like. I am working to correct this but everytime I make a change, it takes nearly a full day to get accurate readings to measure performance .
I had a dickens of a time getting the Blades to run stable because at 850mhz and no auto tuning I was throwing hardware errors and rejects like they were going out of style. I also could not get higher than 13.2Mhs poolside average, which was terrible. I am now getting over 15Mhs poolside average with less than 3% hw/rj combined. All I did was lower the frequency to 800mhz!!!! Yeah, who would have thought? Now the Blades are running cooler, using less electricity, and my hashrate has gone up.
Prior to using the Gridseeds, I was using 4 Sapphire R9280x GPUs but the cost of electricity was killing me. The rig sucked up over 1,400 watts to run a hashrate of a little over 3Mhs total. With the Minis and Blades, I am getting nearly 19Mhs using only 400 watts!!! I actually reduced the power usage by 25 watts when I reduced the Blades down to 800mhz from 850mhz.
I'll report more as time passes to see if things remain stable. For now, I am one happy Minera miner.
I had a dickens of a time getting the Blades to run stable because at 850mhz and no auto tuning I was throwing hardware errors and rejects like they were going out of style. I also could not get higher than 13.2Mhs poolside average, which was terrible. I am now getting over 15Mhs poolside average with less than 3% hw/rj combined. All I did was lower the frequency to 800mhz!!!! Yeah, who would have thought? Now the Blades are running cooler, using less electricity, and my hashrate has gone up.
Prior to using the Gridseeds, I was using 4 Sapphire R9280x GPUs but the cost of electricity was killing me. The rig sucked up over 1,400 watts to run a hashrate of a little over 3Mhs total. With the Minis and Blades, I am getting nearly 19Mhs using only 400 watts!!! I actually reduced the power usage by 25 watts when I reduced the Blades down to 800mhz from 850mhz.
I'll report more as time passes to see if things remain stable. For now, I am one happy Minera miner.