Getting low return mining dogecoin, please help....

[nzminer]

Are the return rates correct on this website?
http://dustcoin.com/mining

Im am yet to get my mining rig up and running (waiting for my GPU)
But thought i would try it out on my existing system, im currently getting around 77 KH/s on my Core2 quad and Nvidis GTX275 combined using cpuminer and cudaminer.

According to these stats, i should be getting around 60 coins an hour, but in about 24 hours i only got about 9 dogecoins.

Is this typical for a PPLNS pool, ie, do i have to wait a few days to get up to that hash rate, or are these stats wrong?

thanks heaps!
I just hope that my ATI rig will get me the 539 coins an hour im expecting.

TIA,

[darksaber]

As I understand it PPLNS payouts depend on the length of time you mine at that pool. The pool calculates this based on the shares submitted and accepted, not what your mining software hashrate is.
Also, those sites are good baselines but they are best case scenarios based on constants.

[nzminer]

OK thats what i was wondering.
Im hoping to have this rig going 24/7 and use my computer along side it when im not needing it.

Would i get a more constant rate with a PPS pool?
It appears that with PPLNS, you can get up to 5% more return if you stay with them long enough.

I was going to look at mining litecoin, but is probably a waste of time now unless i get an ASIC when they become available.
I dont think its worth it if i only get 1-2 litecoins a week.

[darksaber]

I have mostly just mined pplns pools. I have tried pps pools but usually move on for some reason. I would try both and see what you like.

As for what to mine, I started on litecoin but I have a smaller rig so it wasn't beneficial. I did exclusively dogecoin and digitalcoin for awhile and have just been trying out multipool for the last few days (still not sure if I like it or not).

[nzminer]

its quite interesting, i started mining again today and in less than an hour i got more than double for the whole day yesterday, that gives me more confidence when my rig gets going.

[darksaber]

Nice. It's interesting how it can change from one hour or one day to the next. Just keep it going steady, eventually you'll mine something

[film2240]

I think the pool is to blame.I've never trusted PPLNS pools for a reason.It's so confusing as there's no clear way to tell how much you'll earn in a day due to it being determined by the length of a round (some can take days before even seeing a payout) which is why I prefer PPS (Prop/PPLNS pools I avoid).

Where's the link to this calculator as I'd like to know how many dogecoins I can mine in a day but based on my mining stats (estimates) with my Radeon HD6950 (I seem to get around 10k-12K daily,depends on how many stales I get)

[darksaber]

There are these:
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
http://dustcoin.com/
http://coinchoose.com/

I would prefer PPS as well, though they have higher fees, it's seems hard to find good pools though.