This topic is designed for miners who are still deciding in Kaspa. Good replies should compare luck, consistency, profitability, psychology, variance tolerance, and why some miners are better suited for one option than the other.
Good point. A lot of beginners skip that check and then waste hours troubleshooting.
I had a similar situation on a smaller setup and the lesson for me was not to assume profitability or stability from one short test window. Watching behavior over a longer period gave me a more realistic picture.
What helped me most was writing down the exact symptoms before changing anything. Once I compared the dashboard, local logs, and power behavior together, the real cause became much easier to spot.
For anyone still troubleshooting this, the most useful sequence I found was: confirm the wallet and worker format first, then verify the stratum target, then check miner logs, then look at temperature and uptime, and only after that start changing firmware or network settings. Doing it in a clean order saved me a lot of time because I stopped guessing and started isolating the real problem.
It helps a lot when people include what symptoms they saw, what they tested, and what actually changed the result.
This is a strong SEO-style topic because it matches the real questions miners keep asking again and again.
This is exactly the kind of question many new miners search for before they commit money or hardware.
I think the most helpful answers here are the ones that explain what to check first, not just the final fix.
A practical comparison with real setup details would make this thread much more useful for future readers.
