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Find a Starting Overclock for Any GPU on Any Algorithm

Working out an overclock from scratch on every new coin is a waste of a week. hashrate.no already publishes numbers for most cards on most algorithms, and it hands you the miner config alongside them. Treat what it gives you as a starting point and not a final answer.

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Pull the overclock

Open hashrate.no and go to the GPUs section.

https://hashrate.no/

Find your card. An RTX 3090 for example.

Pick the coin you are mining. Kaspa for example.

The overclocks are listed there, per miner.

Underneath them it also gives you the miner options that set that overclock inside the miner itself.

Copy the config for the miner you actually run. LOLMiner and BzMiner do not take the same arguments.

Get it into a HiveOS flight sheet

Open your workers and select the rigs with that card in them.

Edit the flight sheet.

Open miner setup and then the miner config box.

Paste the copied config in.

Apply it.

Push it out with Update in all workers.

The format does not always match

This is the part that wastes an afternoon if nobody tells you.

Some of those config strings are written for a Windows .bat file. BzMiner is the usual offender.

A .bat line and a HiveOS extra config arguments box do not take the same shape, so pasting it straight in gets you a miner that will not start.

Hover the info icon next to the field to see what parameters that miner actually accepts.

Then rewrite the arguments into the shape HiveOS wants, keeping the same offsets and the same values.

The numbers are still good. Only the packaging is wrong.

Coverage is uneven and the numbers are not gospel. Newer or smaller coins often have a rough entry with no real overclock behind it. One person is testing all of these by hand, the same way you would. Every individual card is different, so take the published figure, run it, and then tune from there. Do not assume a number that came off a website is the best your card can do.

Use the per-coin calculator, not the global one

The site has a general profitability calculator that takes your power cost.

The individual coin calculators are better.

They let you enter the miner fee and the pool fee as well as the power cost.

Those two fees are real money and leaving them out flatters the result.

Enter all three and the number you get back is one you can plan against.

Do not compare wattage figures across entries. Power numbers on aggregate sites are not all measured the same way. Some are what the card reports over software, some are wall figures for a whole rig. Comparing one card's watts against another's can be comparing two different measurements. Trust your own meter for anything you are making a buying decision on.

What else is on there

Benchmarks per card.

Current network difficulty per coin.

Which pools are being reported.

Market data, though the coverage there has gaps.

It is worth knowing the whole site exists rather than only using the overclock page.