I am very new to mining and i started out mining zcash with ethOS which worked for the most part, except when it crashed and i wasn't home to fix it. I stumbled onto nvOC through youtube videos from voskcoin and was immediately interested in trying this os. I went to
www.nvov-mining-os.com and found community builds for nvidia cards only to find poisonxa's version PXA-1.9 with auto overclocks and other various features that i think would be to anyone's advantage. I immediately downloaded his version and installed it to my 8 card 1070ti rig. setting up for the first time was a bit of a learning curve (car mechanic, NOT COMPUTER WIZ) but i figured it out with the help of voskcoins videos. My results are very impressive for where i was on ethOS. I am just about 3950 sols on my 8 card 4.5 sol/w at 110 watts all running the auto overclock feature. That is about 300 more sols than i could achieve with ethOS without it crashing an hour into mining. I now have my 8 card 1070ti along with my 6 card 1070ti running on this OS. I am in the process of building 2 more 8 card 1070ti rigs and they will of course have this OS. If anyone is hesitant on trying this OS, I encourage you to do so! You won't be sorry.
The auto overclock feature is pretty impressive. I would have never thought to use the numbers provided by this feature. I started with 100 watts and was getting 470 sols at 4.7 sol/w. I bumped the watts up to 110 to get the sols to 490-500 per card
The watchdog is the saving grace!! it monitors the cards and will repair or reboot automatically if there is a crash. It works like a charm. I no longer have to worry about my rigs going down and losing profit. Just awesome!!
I did have some issues that weren't the fault of the software. It was me not knowing what i was doing and i went to the discord channel for nvoc and asked poisonxa for help. He immediately logged into my rig via teamviewer and showed me what i did wrong. That right there is priceless support if you ask me. Please be sure if you run this software to leave the donation turned on!!!!! He will help anyone that needs it no questions asked.
Bill