5 minutes is probably too short. You don't want to be in a situation where you mine for 5 minutes without a block being found, then move on. I would say someplace between 15-25 minutes would be good, depending on where you mine, algorithms, and coins. Also if you have alot of algos, and pools selected, a longer switching period lowers the chances of something going wrong if you can't always monitor your rigs 24/7.

So, everything on this rig seems good with the exception of the one card with the Samsung memory. I tried your settings, and it was virtually unchanged. I tweaked around with it some more. I lowered the memory to 2070. For some strange reason 2100 is the absolute max setting Afterburner will allow, while I'm not really sure how high the others will allow to be set since they will lock up the screen if set much above 2000, (one of them gets flakey at 1990) but the sliders definitely have more room on them then the Samsung.  So, with the Memory at 2070, and the core at 900 I was basically getting the same hashrate as before. The indicator for the core clock was pegged, so I worked the power limit down from the 10 you suggested, all the way to -5 without the indicator for core clock moving. At -10 the numbers started fluctuating, so I settled for -5, which had 0 effect on hashrates compared to +10, so that's good as far as consumption goes. I think this card is a lemon. I will try the 2000 memory strap later, but at this point, I think I'll be very lucky to get this card up to 23. If I do, I'm going to just say fuck it, and deal with it. Otherwise, I'll have to get another card to replace this one. Thank you all for your help with this. My earnings on this rig are up 25% at the moment, so I'm chalking this up as a success, and a great learning experience. I'll let you know either way how the 2000 memory strap goes. Again, thank you!

I installed the 17.7.2 and it was still not hashing at the right speed. If it was I wouldn't of bothered with the robinhood driver, but it did work. Once I got it installed my hashrates instantly jumped up to where they were supposed to be. I guess it corrects a problem related to Windows 7, I dunno I just followed directions.

Well, Here's where I'm at. I got 2 of the Hynix cards up to 28-29, actually one of them is doing 28.8 dual mining, so those are good to go. The "Asus mining Rx470" I got up to 27, which is not surprising to me since it seems it's inferior to the other cards in just about every way, so that's good to go also. The one that I'm having trouble with at this point is the Samsung one, which is weird. I've tried all kinds of combinations of Afterburner settings, and I'm starting to think it's defective. I can get it to start out at 25, but then every time the rate updates on Claymore, it comes up a little bit lower, till after 10 minutes it drops below 20. I've been trying every setting imaginable, but I've just barely gotten it to stay above 20. Right now I've got it set at 1080 clock, memory at 1850, with power at 0%. The other cards show in AB the clock rate I have it set to (a couple of them were fluctuating about 10 below where the clock was set, but when I increased the power to +10 they leveled out where they were set.) the samsung if I have it set to for example 1200, it will bounce around 1065-1085, and raising the power doesn't seem to help. That's why I'm thinking it might be bad. I might try the settings you gave me above, but other then that I think I'm going to just let it run for the night because I'm getting tired and I don't want to do anything stupid. (Like last night when I flashed one of the regular cards with the "Mining Rx470" bios) Tomorrow I guess I'll start by trying to figure out how to change the memory straps, because the Polaris one touch mod made it a 1500 strap, and from what I'm reading, that doesn't sound right. I think it's supposed to be 2000. The swap file I already have set to coincidentally 20gb, and as far as the OS, firstly I'm not 100% that this computer can take windows 10, it can be a touch sluggish with windows 7, and it also only has 4gb of ram which I don't think windows 10 would like. (but hey, it was free) Thanks for your suggestions, and help, I will get this rig to perform the way I want, I don't give up easily, and I will also keep this post updated, as I personally hate when stories don't have an ending.

Well, I had some successes. 17.7.2 worked with all of my cards. There was no effect on hashrate at that point, but it worked. Next I realized the problem I was having with the robinhood drivers was that they were zipped with 7zip (Doh! Told you I've been working on this too long) Next I went into the device manager and just hit update driver and pointed to the folder. I thought I was going to have to do that 4 times once for each of my cards, restarting between each,  but I patched the driver (already knew about that from modding the bios) and restarted, and benchmarked (didn't want to do more then one at a time in case anything went wrong) and while the sgminer numbers wern't much better, Claymore is now reporting 29,25,24,24 which is much better. Not quite perfect yet, but at least I'm getting into the ballpark. The one with the 29 I can pretty much be happy with, just have to see if I can tweak the others up to the 27-29 range. I'm running a benchmark right now, so we'll see if everything else is good, hopefully I didn't screw something else up in the process. Definitely looking a bit less hopeless at the moment. Thank you for all the help so far, hopefully things keep going as good as they are at the moment.

Oh, I'm trying to learn. I've been reading, and trying things since Saturday, I was able to mod bios, and got my Equihash rates from 270 up to 300 on some of the cards, but I'm stumped here, so I'm reaching out for help. I'm using Nicehash right now, so I don't have Claymore options. I've got driver 17.7.2 downloading right now, and I'm going to give the instructions for the robinhood driver another try, and I'll check out ati patch 1.46. Unfortunately I can't just use whatever drivers I want as many of them seem to be incompatible with the Asus Mining RX470. So far only the 17.10 has worked with all 4 cards. I have my fingers crossed for the 17.7.2 Wish me luck.

I don't have the option for compute mode on this. The blockchain drivers didn't work for me either. I do have windows 7 professional. So you think I need the robinhood driver? I saw something about that earlier. Downloaded it, and it appears to be just some random files, not an .exe and it said to remove all drivers and then install manually and point to the folder the files were in. I tried that and windows said the best drivers for my device were already installed (standard windows VGA driver). Jeez. I thought Windows 7 was going to be the way to go with the dag size and all.

Hi there mining brethren. So my mom gave me a Windows 7 Dell i5 server. nothing special, but it has 4 GPU slots. So, I started out with some AMD 7950 cards I had laying around, and eventually I upgraded to 3 Asus Strix Rx 470 4gb cards, and 1 Asus mining Rx470. I ran it for a few weeks stock, and when I finally got a chance last weekend I watched some videos, and learned how to do a basic bios mod. I used polaris, and used the one click timing. Then I downloaded Afterburner, and started tweaking settings. I tried a few sets of settings I found online, and, then when I found a good one, I tweaked it myself from there. The highest I was able to get it to hash on Equihash was 300, 290, 300, and 283 for the four cards, and I had to dick around with it for hours to get it that high. So, I proceeded to benchmark with NHML 19.0.0. (I don't know why but I can't keep it running consistently with Awesome Miner YET.) So on benchmark, the Ethereum numbers are off. With SG miner (Which won't always benchmark, many times it fails) With SG miner I get 25,23,15,17. After all the tweaking I've done that was unacceptable. On Claymore the situation was more dire, 20,19,16,16. I figured maybe my bios mods were not the greatest, so I bought a custom mod for card 1 and 3 (Hynix) for $5. I got maybe 1-2 extra sols on Equihash, and maybe 1-2% on Ethereum. Not knowing what else to try, I tried different AMD drivers. The experiments were not successful.  I tried 4 or 5 different versions, and only 2 would mine, and only one version would make the Asus mining rx 470 work, the one from the Asus site (Version 17.10), and now I'm stumped. How are people getting 30Mhs? I know not every card will run at 30, but shouldn't I be able to get at least 25 on all of them? 15 is definitely not enough. For my afterburner settings, the mining rx470 is set at stock (doesn't seem to overclock at all), +10 power, the others are in the neighborhood of 1300 clock, 2000 memory, +10 power. Btw card 2 is Samsung, 1,3 and 4 are hynix. Anybody have any suggestions to help get these things working like they're supposed to? Thank you in advance!

So I noticed something that may be a bug, or it might just be a limitation of the software. So I just recently added a L3+ Scrypt miner to my farm, and as you probably know, only 3 pools can be added to the L3+. I added the 3 pools I thought would be best and started mining. A week later a friend of mine had his newly purchased L3+ delivered, and I told him the 3 pools I was using, and he used 2 of them and added Nicehash for his third in place of one of the ones I was using. He reported some decent numbers from Nicehash, so I decided I would add them in. I decided I would do it via the add pool function on Awesome miner so that I could leave my original 3 pools since they were working well for me, and if I was going to ultimately replace one, I would want to do it right after a payout. I resigned to the fact that the fourth pool will sometimes disappear if the miner restarts itself, and will need to be periodically added back in. Small price to pay to have more then 3 pools available for the profit switcher. So, I added Nicehash, and I prioritized it, to make sure it was working, and it started mining away. Everything seemed to be working just fine, untill I checked on Nicehash and I realized there was no extranonce support indicated. L3+, or S9, or D3 (kind of assuming on the D3, I don't have one) need "#xnsub" added after the port number on the stratum addresses if they are used in a multipool configuration.  Baikal miners have a checkbox on their pool page to enable it for each pool as needed instead, and if I remember correctly from my Innosilicon A4 (Haven't used it in a few months, and memory is a bit foggy) there is no way to enable it, and if #xnsub is entered after the port number, the pool comes up as dead, so I THINK it's only Antminers that use it in the stratum address like that. So, I see this being an issue for Bitmain users, and possibly for Baikal users. (I add all my pools into the actual Baikal since there doesn't seem to be a limit to the number of pools that I've found, but I'm thinking that if pools are added with the add pool function, there's a good chance the extranonce checkbox isn't being checked.) Obviously having the extranonce support is pretty important when using profit/coin switching pools, so I thought even if there isn't anything that can be done to correct the behavior, it's best to bring it to peoples attention so they can mitigate it themselves at least. Thank you for everything, and happy mining to one and all!

You'll want to turn off nishashma. It puts the profit switching in the hands of Nicehash, which will never switch to anything else. Even if your only using Nicehash you'll still want to turn that off if using with Awesome miner because Awesome miner seems to be better at switching (it doesn't get fooled with the quick bait and switches as easily as Nicehash natively) Have fun!

So Patrike, I was thinking about something. I see alot of the posts on here, and I have an idea I thought I'd share which might allow people the flexibility they are looking for. So, right now we can set up a managed miner, or a managed profit miner. What about a third class which would be "timer based miner"? It would switch pools based on timers that you setup. Let's say you wanted to set it up to start mining "COIN-A" at 12:00pm. Then, you could set the next timer for 4:00am (whatever you want really) to start mining "COIN-B", then the next timer could be at 10:00am to switch to "COIN-C". There could be a checkbox to enable 1, 2, or 3 days of timers. (if only 1 was checked, it would loop around at the end of the day, with 3 selected, 3 days of timers could be added) Each pool added to the "timer based miner" could have one failover pool, and to be really safe from downtime, there could be one global failover pool for each "timer based miner profile" The cool thing with this idea is a person could make a list of 20 or so coins/pools, they are interested in, and set up a three day "playlist" of them and tweak the amounts of time to stay on each pool as time goes on, and you see how they do. Another great thing would be that since they aren't profit switching, everybody wouldn't switch to the same pool at the same time which would add more consistency for not only the "timer based miner" users, but for the profit based miners as well since, there would be ultimately less people following the profit switcher around at the same time. Just thought I'd put this out there, as it does nobody any good just floating around in my head. Thank you for an "Awesome" program, it's working great for me, and has really helped get thru the cold dark "Crypto Winter" we just experienced.

Add all the pools/algorithms to your miner itself, even if its 30+ entries, and make sure every one of them is listed in the online services. (All the default pools Awesome miner uses should be listed if enabled globally) If they aren't, add them as user defined online services. Create a profit profile for the miner. Add all the algorithms the X10 uses, deselect any others. Don't select any mining software. Look up how much power the X10 uses on each algorithm, and respective hashrate, and add it in (use custom) you'll make a little bit more that way. That's pretty much all you need to get started. Have fun, and good luck!

Yeah but that's not for you to decide which coins I may want to speculate on. I used those pools for examples, in reality I actually mine at Slushpool. Just sayin, I'd be pissed if I had a much smaller group of pools available then I had thought when I ordered the miner. For another example, maybe I had planned to rent the miner out at Mining Rig Rentals, and have it mining at Nicehash (or Slushpool for that matter) when it wasn't being rented, thinking I was going to get premium top dollar rental fees on a rare unit with the highest hashrate available anywhere. Well, you're not going to be able to rent this miner out. Also I'm not saying that knowing the full story with the miner that I wouldn't get one. (I'm hoping I see one for sale for the same price or cheaper then a S9 when an unhappy customer realizes the pool limitations) To me it's kinda like if people were advertising the worlds hardest hammer, and they were taking orders on kickstarter, and they said it will drive nails in less swings with less force, but they cost twice the price and they had to be ordered 6 months ahead of time. Then, after they took orders for thousands of them, they mention that the hammer is so hard that it will break regular nails and you need to buy special carbon nails only available by special order to use the hammer. You can sit there and argue all day that carbon nails are better, everyone should be using them, people who use regular nails are dumb, etc, etc, etc. Those things may very well might be true, but I'm still going to be pissed if I can't just walk into True Value and buy a box of nails for my overpriced hammer.

Yeah, it's definitely limiting. What if a person had planned to point their miner at a list of profit switching pools and profit switch from the list of them? (Maybe, Nicehash, Zpool, and Miningpoolhub for starters) There could be 150 different SHA-256 based coins mined and auto exchanged for BTC in that scenario, and there'd be no way to make it work with all of them even if the pool wanted to, the coin developers would all have to get involved, and there would need to be consensus.

I don't think you can break it up like you want to. (I have Avalons as well) If it DID let you break them up into seperate miners, the trial version wouldn't work for you anyways.

Also, I thought about editing Qubit globally, but that would screw up all the other pools that are displaying it correctly, so I never went down that road.

Hello. So I managed to setup mining at Blazepool. It was quite a bit of work getting it setup, and I'm a little proud of myself for sticking with it, and getting it up and working. I had to read instructions, and there was a bit of trial and error, but it's up and running. I am having an issue though, so I'm here for the Awesome support that we're all so lucky to have. So, Qubit is showing profit of $4750.00 a day, on my Baikal Giant+, that's obviously wrong (unfortunately). It should be reading $4.75, so to resolve it, I tried going to user defined online services and editing the Blazepool Qubit entry. I changed the profit factor to .001, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. I'm thinking even if the place is still wrong, it still should of changed the decimal point place. Kinda stumped here at this point. This same issue has prevented me from adding Starpool (most of the decimal points are wrong, and I can't seem to get them to change places the way I'm trying) Is there another trick I'm missing to get this to change, or is there a bug or something? Thanks for all the hard work Patrike! Almost up to 10 miners, will be upgrading soon, and looking forward to gaining even more features!

I'll keep a close eye on it now that I know. Looking back thru the bern coin page it was showing the blocks in patches like a bunch of them 27 hours ago, a bunch of them 46 hours ago, etc, so I thought it was just building up and a bunch would show up at one time. No worries, I'll just have to watch it. Maybe you should make it an announcement like XVG? Thank you.

Went into Discord and asked about it last night and soon after that the BERN payments started coming thru, but they were all current. None from the previous 36 hours came in, so I guess I WAS wasting my time. Kinda sucks cause Awesome miner was showing over $20 a day profit on those miners, and at the moment my total balance is under $6 instead of over $35. Grrrr.

Up to over 24 hours here. I notice the BERN in clusters every day or so in the list. I just want to know everything is ok. The profits look really good, and there are other people mining, but it's just making me nervous that my balance hasn't hardly changed in a day...