Possibly it might be better to use an SPI controlled VCO
There are some really 'cheap' solutions available. That way you can have a bit of software that increases the clock rate until the thing starts producing too many errors, then you just gradually 'slide' the VCO back down a few tens of KHZ
Take a look at silicon labs, they have a full range of products that can be picked up on ebay or group buys fairly cheaply.
What you will see is that the number of errors will increase as the frequency increases, so with a VCO you can 'trade off', also as the temp is a function of the speed you can slide the VCO Downwards if you start getting too hot, whilst still mining.
Only 'fly' i can see is If there is some sort of clock syncronicity between the USB circuit (UART/USB bridge) and the ASIC
My approach here is that I would like to get a stable voltage range for oscillators that are easily attainable from well known trusted sources (such as digikey, mouser, element14, ect) and post a list of these with resistor values. That way a oscillator and resistors can be purchase and install with some certainty that it will work. Having a dialed in frequency at which is not obtainable in a oscillator package is not very useful. Now if we had these in bare chip form and were making custom boards we would be having a different conversation. I am more interested in dialing in the voltage at a given frequency as I think that will be more useful. The only road blocks here are I see are heat dissipation (which I think are mostly in check at this point) and current delivery capability.
As regards increasing the voltage/current... usually this is a resistor/inductor change......, changing the resistor will only get you so far, and if you get it wrong.. the flyback inductance from the mis-matched resistor inductor, will toast your PSU chip....
Could you elaborate on this? My understanding is the resistors forms a voltage divider which offsets the voltage and is then compared to a reference the regulator then balances this to match providing a stable output voltage, that is the only effect the resistor has on the output. The inductor is fine up to saturation. So there will be a point at which enough current is drawn that the inductor will no longer be able to provide a stable output so far this point has not been reached. Temperature is much more likely to affect tolerances for the resistors than the inductor. As I express earlier in this thread I believe the inductor is good for current beyond what the voltage regulator is. Running at ~3 amps the inductor, on my board running at 447mhz, is not any warmer that the pcb itself.