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@@ -347,12 +347,18 @@ binaries will be built. It is known that the 2.6 ATI SDK has a huge hashrate
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penalty on generating new binaries. It is recommended to not use this SDK at
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this time unless you are using an ATI 7xxx card that needs it.
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-Q: Which ATI SDK is the best for BFGMiner?
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+Q: Which AMD SDK is the best for BFGMiner?
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A: At the moment, versions 2.4 and 2.5 work the best for 5xxx and 6xxx GPUs. SDK
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2.6 or 2.7 works best for 7xxx. SDK 2.8 is known to have many problems. If you
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need to use the 2.6+ SDK (7xxx and later), the phatk kernel will perform poorly,
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while the diablo or (modified) poclbm kernel are optimised for it.
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+Q: Which AMD driver is the best?
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+A: Unfortunately AMD has a history of having quite a few releases with issues
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+when it comes to mining, either in terms of breaking mining, increasing CPU
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+usage or very low hashrates. Only experimentation can tell you for sure, but
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+some good releases were 11.6, 11.12, 12.4 and 12.8
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Q: I have multiple SDKs installed, can I choose which one it uses?
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A: Run bfgminer with the -n option and it will list all the platforms currently
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installed. Then you can tell BFGMiner which platform to use with --gpu-platform.
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Luke Dashjr