Topic: first post, probably dumb question (but not the typical new guy stuff) (Read 153 times)

thank you!  Question answered, I now know something I didnt know before! 

Its fine.

There's no way for the Pool site to know your actual hash rate.  What they calculate is number of submitted shares over a particular time period, and extrapolate a hash rate.  If you get extra extra lucky and find a long string of valid shares, the estimated hash rate will bump up.  If you get a crappy luck streak, the estimate will go down.

YOU ARE NOT PAID FOR YOUR HASH RATE.   Maybe NiceHack does, but "real pools" don't pay for hashes.

You're paid based on valid shares submitted once the Pool finds a block.  Hash rate is just a statistic to obsess (or not) over.

Awesome

thank you!  This makes sense.  Here is a screen shot of what I'm seeing as an example.  It's quite a bit different.  Is there something I should be looking into?  

He means you should check the miner's performance on the actual Minergate website (the pool) each day. Clientside hashrate doesn't matter, what does matter for mining is poolside performance because that is what you are paid by. What is most likely happening is Claymore shows the actual hashrate for each completed job/share, while the Minergate application probably averages out your hashrate for whatever increment they choose to average by.

It is natural for the hashrate to constantly fluctuate, but on average you should be getting the same numbers on both mining applications.

Can you elaborate a bit more?  I'm not sure what that means.  Thanks

check pool side number each day

I'm just dipping my toes into mining.  More curiosity that anything else.  However, I'm considering getting a little deeper in.  I dont currently have a high end video card as my gaming days are behind me.  What I do have is a beast of a cpu machine.  Which I realize is all wrong, but it's what I have at this point while I sit here watching daily prices on gpu

I first started mining monero with the windows MinerGate app and my Intel 6800K.  After a few days of that, I decided to try Claymore's CryptoNote CPU Miner and settled on a 7 thread option. Might be able to tweak a bit better but this is 'ok' for now.
Wow hashrate def improved! I had the minergate ap running on 11 threads supposedly.    My question is, should I be seeing radically different hashrates each time I get a new job recieved?

I get hashrates on Claymore that fluctuate from 275-355.  Most seem to be in the 320-340 range, but sometimes it drops as low as 275 for a 'cycle' (probably not right word)

When I was mining with the minergate app, my hashrates were constant displayed at 245.  They never seemed to change.

If I look at the minergate 'dashboard' located at https://minergate.com/internal while mining with Claymore( I'm pool mining with minergate) , the rates change often but I see rates above 500 or as low as 200.

How do I know my exact hashrate? Am I supposed to have this much variance?

Thanks in advance!

edited to add : i6800k 6 cores, 12 threads, 15m l3 cache, overclocked on water to 4.0 ghz.  32g of ram (not that that matters)