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-If you wish to donate to the author, Con Kolivas, in LTC, please submit your
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-donations to:
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+If you wish to donate to the author of scrypt support, Con Kolivas, please send
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+your donations to:
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-Lc8TWMiKM7gRUrG8VB8pPNP1Yvt1SGZnoH
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-Otherwise, please donate in BTC as per the main README.
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+Bitcoin : 15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ
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+Litecoin: Lc8TWMiKM7gRUrG8VB8pPNP1Yvt1SGZnoH
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@@ -16,8 +15,8 @@ GPU ram.
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There are 5 main parameters to tuning scrypt, 2 of which you MUST set, and
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the others are optional for further fine tuning. When you start scrypt mining
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-with the --scrypt option, cgminer will fail IN RANDOM WAYS. They are all due
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-to parameters being outside what the GPU can cope with. Not giving cgminer a
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+with the --scrypt option, BFGMiner will fail IN RANDOM WAYS. They are all due
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+to parameters being outside what the GPU can cope with. Not giving BFGMiner a
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hint as to your GPU type, it will hardly ever perform well.
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@@ -31,8 +30,8 @@ may help CPU usage a little as well.
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--shaders XXX
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-is a new option where you tell cgminer how many shaders your GPU has. This
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-helps cgminer try to choose some meaningful baseline parameters. Use this table
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+is a new option where you tell BFGMiner how many shaders your GPU has. This
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+helps BFGMiner try to choose some meaningful baseline parameters. Use this table
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below to determine how many shaders your GPU has, and note that there are some
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variants of these cards, and nvidia shaders are much much lower and virtually
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pointless trying to mine on.
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@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@ GPU Shaders
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5870 1600
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5970 (5870x2)
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-These are only used as a rough guide for cgminer, and it is rare that this is
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+These are only used as a rough guide for BFGMiner, and it is rare that this is
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all you will need to set.
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-g:
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Once you have found the optimal shaders and intensity, you can start increasing
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-the -g value till cgminer fails to start. Rarely will you be able to go over
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+the -g value till BFGMiner fails to start. Rarely will you be able to go over
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about -g 4 and each increase in -g only increases hashrate slightly.
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--thread-concurrency:
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This tunes the optimal size of work that scrypt can do. It is internally tuned
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-by cgminer to be the highest reasonable multiple of shaders that it can
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+by BFGMiner to be the highest reasonable multiple of shaders that it can
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allocate on your GPU. Ideally it should be a multiple of your shader count.
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vliw5 architecture (R5XXX) would be best at 5x shaders, while VLIW4 (R6xxx and
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R7xxx) are best at 4x. Setting thread concurrency overrides anything you put
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This tunes a compromise between ram usage and performance. Performance peaks
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at a gap of 2, but increasing the gap can save you some GPU ram, but almost
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always at the cost of significant loss of hashrate. Setting lookup gap
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-overrides the default of 2, but cgminer will use the --shaders value to choose
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+overrides the default of 2, but BFGMiner will use the --shaders value to choose
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a thread-concurrency if you haven't chosen one.
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-If you wish to donate to the author, Con Kolivas, in LTC, please submit your
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-donations to:
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-
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-Lc8TWMiKM7gRUrG8VB8pPNP1Yvt1SGZnoH
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+If you wish to donate to the author of scrypt support, Con Kolivas, please send
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+your donations to:
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-Otherwise, please donate in BTC as per the main README.
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+Bitcoin : 15qSxP1SQcUX3o4nhkfdbgyoWEFMomJ4rZ
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+Litecoin: Lc8TWMiKM7gRUrG8VB8pPNP1Yvt1SGZnoH
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