Title: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: bitlane on July 19, 2011, 03:54:51 AM This really only applies to those who overclock their video cards.
I realize that every discussion around here has to do with how high people can tune their HASH RATES to....... BUT, has anyone ever paid attention to their SHARES/HOUR ? Recently I have been using my average SHARES/HOUR in Guiminer as a 'fine-tuning' tool of sorts and have achieved measurable results. The math speaks for itself. By simply turning down the overclock by 1 or 2 Mhz, I can increase my SHARES/HOUR on a single card by about 50 to 70 extra SHARES/HOUR...and able to maintain it. (HD 6870 @ 302MH/s, 980 MHz GPU/Mem, 1280mV, 290+ SHARES/HOUR in Guiminer). I have tried to counter this by adding more Voltage to the card, but only saw more heat generated and not more shares. The 1-2 MHz drop in clock speeds was enough to increase output and not affect overall HASH RATES by too much. The trade-off is more than worth it. Are you 'riding the ragged edge' with your overclock ? time to re-evaluate things. Save heat, card life and increase output. Post#2 for me.... I'll shut up now..lol Cheers, Allan. --------------------------------------- Did it help ? Feel free to send something my way - 1QGjSCJ1tcz1kXnqB4KPqcY8kZz2Guwbef Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: tysat on July 19, 2011, 03:58:12 AM How long of a period are you taking to get shares/hour? It can vary.
Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: Graet on July 19, 2011, 04:05:42 AM i have noticed ppl that overclock "to extreme" often create a lot os "stale" or "invalid" shares. dropping a few Mhz can improve your accepted share and lower stale share rates thus giving a better return :)
hope thats a help :) Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: bitlane on July 19, 2011, 04:09:38 AM How long of a period are you taking to get shares/hour? It can vary. I used 2 different pools with LONG rounds and monitored each for 3 hours on 2 seperate occasions/rounds.**I should clarify though** I run 3 cards (all 6870's) in the test machine in question, with the lowest card starting approx 260+ and the top card of the 3 doing 290+ Shares/hour during the testing/monitoring, using the most basic OpenCL setup in Guiminer with "-v -w128 -f1". The same card was not always the highest producer, the 3 cards all maintained 260+ and each would peak at over 290/hour for periods of 30mins or more before leveling off to 280-ish. Prior to this, clocking the cards as high as I could get them stable, producing nearly 315Mhash/s each.....they would never peak over 250 shares/hour. Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: bitlane on July 19, 2011, 04:12:03 AM i have noticed ppl that overclock "to extreme" often create a lot os "stale" or "invalid" shares. dropping a few Mhz can improve your accepted share and lower stale share rates thus giving a better return :) hope thats a help :) My problem was never excessive Stales/Invalids.... it simply took a long time to produce anything (other than heat....lol). Unfortunately, I have peaked as high as 5% Stales at times, but this is uncommon for the most part. I still see the odd stale share, same as always. This 'tuning' has not affected Stales for the good or bad. Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: sven on July 19, 2011, 05:01:00 AM that's why i test all my overclocked cards for graphical errors
if there is the slightest issue i clock it down to prevent invalid shares and possible freezes Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: Pentium100 on July 19, 2011, 05:18:23 AM That's why I do not overclock to the point where I need to increase the voltage. I would only get a few percent higher hashrate (assuming hashrate scales linearly with the GPU MHz) but more heat and power consumption. 1GHz (~310MH/s) IMO is enough for a 6870.
The time to calculate a share can vary, just like the time to calculate a block (assuming constant difficulty). It is interesting though, I'll try to calculate my shares/hour. Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: Ryu.Hayabusa on July 19, 2011, 06:10:13 AM It can also randomly fail and generate nothing but bad hashes too. I had mine running on the edge until I woke up the next morning and had -300 or so shares lol.
Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: Dargo on July 19, 2011, 11:33:53 PM I've noticed this too, and completely agree that you have to fine tune for shares/hour rather than hash rate. You have to be careful, though, about measuring the shares/hour due to variance. It would be nice if there were some standard and accurate way of doing this so people could have pissing contests in terms of shares/hour rather than Mh/s.
Title: Re: Your big@ss Hash Rate might actually be hurting you Post by: btcking on July 19, 2011, 11:55:54 PM Thanks for the interesting info! I had no idea that large hash rates could actually result in less stable share counts if using overclocking. very enlightening.
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