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by iamdarkyoshi
Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:57 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power
Replies: 8
Views: 1334

Re: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power

bollix47 wrote:Check the requirements and make sure you have software like .net etc installed.
Sweet. That fixed it! Thanks everyone, the garage PC is now folding 24/7.
by iamdarkyoshi
Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:26 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power
Replies: 8
Views: 1334

Re: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power

I think that default setting will leave one CPU thread (a core in the case of your core 2 duo) free to feed the GPU. Look in your task manager : if the GPU core (FahCore_17, 18 or 21) doesn't use a lot of CPU percent, you can change the default behaviour of the SMP core to use all your CPU core. Al...
by iamdarkyoshi
Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:04 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power
Replies: 8
Views: 1334

Re: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power

Task manager will tell you if the CPU is running at 100% and there are multiple applications that can give you GPU utilization like GPU-Z. An ATI card will use 1-2% CPU. If both are close to 100% it would FAH is running at max. It seem that I am folding pretty close to max. roughly 80% on the CPU a...
by iamdarkyoshi
Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:35 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power
Replies: 8
Views: 1334

Re: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power

I just tried running prime95 and furmark at the same time, and yup, 300W from the wall.
by iamdarkyoshi
Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:17 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power
Replies: 8
Views: 1334

Dedicated FAH Rig Not taking enough power

First post, some of you might recognize me from the LinusTechTips forums. Hi! So I had a directcu ii HD6950 that got water damaged (corroded traces), and I managed to repair it, albeit after it became virtually worthless. I want to use it to run folding@home until it completely dies. Thread on the L...