I finally decided to start researching bitcoins/alternate currencies and I'm now punching myself for not doing so 2 years ago. After a bit of research, it seems that the future of GPU mining may be headed to litecoins, so I decided to start there.

I downloaded the litecoin wallet and reaper. I started with burnside's pool and also tried notroll's pool. On both, I started out around 100kH/s... and then drops steadily to ~1.000kH/s and seems to still be dropping. I followed the recommended settings from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117221.0

The only thing I havn't looked at is my cards core:memory ratio, which it recommended a ratio of .7. Would this have this type of effect on mining?

Any insight/help is appreciated. I can attach screenshots if you would like.