Burnin did some OC tests already and it looks like you'll need 1.34V to run at 450Mhz.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179769.msg2745262#msg2745262

Earlier in the day yes, but did not seem to be during the time those stats were collected.  My miner has stayed connected fine and the website has still been up, but now I guess I'll setup some tracking to graph that out to be certain.

There's definitely something seriously wrong with the payouts.  Over six hours at ~1400KH/s and I have 26.55796339 coins paid; even with variance and an invalid rate of 4% there's absolutely no way that's even remotely accurate it should easily be at minimum double that.

I would agree, it's been great so far.  I just double checked my 24 hour payout totals and its spot on for what I'd expect based on my average hash rates.  The auto-pay issue is only an annoyance and being that the manual payout still functions I'm not bothered.  The pool in all other respects has been stable and top notch.

Thumbs up to thep33t for his work.

Autopay was working fine for me up till a couple hours ago.  Since then it hasn't processed anything, I even modified my threshold a few times to see if that would trigger it (both above and below the account balance).  I did however test the manual payout and that went through fine.

That entirely depends on the pool's payout method, fees, etc.  The pool itself should provide that information on their website or may have an informational thread on this board.

However all pools will divide up the block rewards between all miners based on some sort of scheme.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools -- Read that as it gives a run down of the most common reward systems used and has information on most of the popular pools.

Lurker that finally ran into a thread that I actually want to post in, but have to get out of newbie jail first.

That's a good question, bronze, silver and gold are just efficiency ratings.  The lower the efficiency the higher wattage you need the PSU to support for the same load (you never want to max out the PSU at full load).  The second side is higher efficiency means less loss to heat which may be a consideration.  Although the PSU is going to produce far less heat than a stack of GPUs so it may be a moot point.

In the end its probably best to pick based on cost ratio, lots of gold PSUs are considerably more expensive and may not be worth it over just getting a higher wattage bronze to make up for the efficiency loss.  Check the specs and figure it out from there.

It would help if you posted the error and specified what hardware you're trying to mine with.  Otherwise nobody will be able to tell you if the hash rate you're getting is reasonable or what the problem might be.

What cgminer switches are you using?  I've found setting vectors to 1 gets me better rates on my 7970 as well.

-v 1 -g 2 -w 256 -I 6 will get me about 660MH/s when overclocked to 1100Mhz core and 950Mhz clock.  The clock settings are pretty irrelevant, but lower it can help with power consumption.

I spent far too long looking for the reply link on other threads before finding out about the newbie limitation