You do it so that you use one single pool setting for all of your rigs.  Once you set your pool up, you don't have to change anything.  Doing it your way, you'd have to setup a pool for each rig.

Don't put the full worker name [mph account name].[mph worker name] in the pool settings unless you tick the box to "ignore add to worker name on miner" on the Advanced tab on the pool settings.  I highly recommend you just use the account name in the worker name, and let AM add on the rig name from the managed miner.

Don't put the full worker name [mph account name].[mph worker name] in the pool settings unless you tick the box to "ignore add to worker name on miner" on the Advanced tab on the pool settings.  I highly recommend you just use the account name in the worker name, and let AM add on the rig name from the managed miner.

DSTM works fine with Awesome Miner.

The benchmark numbers are to help Awesome Miner determine what is the best algo for your card based upon what sites like zpool or MPH are showing as "most profitable."

1.  No penalty except for the ramp up penalty.  If you are mining on Zpool and have AM switching you every 10 minutes... some mining software can take a good minute or so to ramp up.  They initialize the cards, some set DAGs, etc.  On 10 minute switching you could be losing 10% of your time ramping up when you could have been mining.

2.  An hour is a reasonable time to have AM check profitability. 

3.  That's personal preference, and there are many opinions out there about this.  My opinion is that you should be mining coins that are most profitable over an average amount of time... not spot prices.  Coins shoot up and down in value constantly, and you will be chasing the tail end of the spikes.  And you've got the coin's maturity time, and exchange time to consider.  Just because you mined a coin at X value right now, doesn't mean it will give you exactly that X value after waiting on the coin to mature and hit the exchanges.

4.  The temperature seems fine to me.


You don't have to use Awesome Miner's profit switching only with services like zpool or MPH.  You can setup your own set of pools and add them to a pool group.  Then use the custom pool group to switch between.  When you do this, Awesome Miner will use the Whattomine statistics on the Coin tab to determine what coin you should be mining.  You could setup all the Suprnova pools up in a pool group for instance.

Hello. Have a 10 card rig setup with AwesomeMiner and I simply just want to mine JUST ZenCash at MPH.

I created a "managed miner" and put in us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20594 for the pool and my username.workername I setup under "Hub Workers" which was setup for just ZenCash. I also put my ZenCash wallet in the settings. I set the miner to be EWBF, CCMINER, Excavator, and DSTM for nVidia. All of these programs work for a second and then close out with no error seen.


Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

be sure to build mining software yourself, rig sellers like to worm in a few lines in source code to steal hash power from newbies. not all of them, but its a huge trend. 
ill send you few links regarding pos coins in pm to keep things on topic

with pow/pos hybrid coins you can mine to your wallet, and then also stake mined coins with same wallet. staking is the way to mine on some algos. more coins in the wallet = higher chance for higher pos block reward

Sharing mine as well, i'm mining on an 8 year old HP motherboard. It actually only has 1 16x PCIE slot and another 1x PCIE slot. What I did was to add a PCIE extender which allowed me to have an additional 3 PCIE slots. Been using the mobo flawlessly for a few months now.

So from my experience its a NO. You should not see any reductions in hashrate as long as your motherboard can support your GPU.

no probs! if you just started, also look at staking coins since its almost resources to mine comparing to pow. you can run a few pos wallets along with your gpu miner

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2141520/pci-express-x16-graphic-card-pci-express-x16-slot.html
id start with ubuntu