I agree that that usability for the benchmark can be improved and I know other users had similar suggestion in the past.
Speaking of benchmarking, I have a suggestion:
In the benchmarking window - would it be possible to select an algo/miner (and pool) and hit a button "Diagnostic".
I think this would make it easier to find problems, Often the profit switcher has changed to another algo
(or the pool is disabled for no accepted) and it could be a hassle to make sure the diagnostic will start with
the correct algo/miner.
BTW: Have you considered making benchmarks run in parallel? (on multi-gpu rigs)
Like running X16r with 3-4 different miners (exe) simultaneously to get more accurate speed comparison
- or just speeding up the benchmarking in total.
Good point about the Diagnostics for a specific algorithm - I agree that it would make sense to have. It's noted.
The idea of running in parallel is also interesting, but it would require Awesome Miner to understand which GPU's are identical in terms of memory and clock to make it fair.