Roger. makes sense. The rig is on a 100mb line for now because the new home i moved in too, cat5e network was installed with phone punch blocks, so we can only have hard lines in two rooms. There is concert walls everywhere, so WiFi sucks. this weekend, im rewiring the network box and installed a power switch port. I have two serves. 100mb and a 500mb, so i'll switch the miner to the 500mb line this weekend too.
I did turn the clock way down (100/500) and got almost the same performance. I did read on another facebook group that ya, i might lose 3%, but i will not wear out the cards as fast.
Thanks!!
I wouldn't say that its that heavy on the internet side. I run one of my rigs off a WiFi N connection, another is wired in and that is just off a standard 60/4 line at home. Zero issues and that includes streaming, downloading and gaming all on the same internet connection. Now pool connection and latency yes that matters. Do one local if at all possible (country) or worst case switch to a pool that is capable of providing that.
Though I would agree to high clocks especially on the memory side doesn't seem to benefit as much. Most I'd do on the memory is +500 as its a rig I utilize and switch to gaming or something it would create a crash when dropping out of the miner, but I also didn't see any benefit to the additional clocks. Now the Core side... the cards I have I'm having anywhere from +200 to +250 on the core side to help boost that, and dropping the TDP to 80-90% not only helps reduce temps/power consumption but sometimes get higher clocks out of it due to the lower temps (boost clocks). If was able to hold 10-15C lower temps, i'd get another 5-10% boost out of the cards on hash rate.