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Okay, things seem to be behaving better today. I did as you suggested. On the same work unit and over 4% progress: 1 thread (25% CPU) produced 0.105% progress per minute and a temperature of 75-80C 2 threads (50% CPU) produced 0.163% progress per minute and a temperature of ~90C (and higher fan spee...

Reducing the CPU usage from 50% to 25% should either reduce the temperature or simply reduce the amount of air that the fan needs to move, making things a bit quieter (if that happens to matter to you).

That's what I was expecting. It did not seem to make a difference though. Thoughts?

Okay, great. Thank you. I'm back at -1 and have entered my passkey.

Hello, I'm a brand new user/donor who is not a computer expert. I believe I have successfully downloaded, installed and run F@H version 7.4.4. The program is in the middle of its first work unit (13%) and things seem to be running correctly. However, I noticed that my laptop's fan was running very f...