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by Blue_Collar
Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:31 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Folding Power: Medium Question
Replies: 4
Views: 656

Re: Folding Power: Medium Question

I couldn't resist messing with it before work...I have an i7-7700k, so its 7 core. I changed it to utilize 5/7, and my CPU is riding at a nice 66-70% with the GPU Folding at the same time.

Thanks Jimbo for the walkthrough on how to change that setting. Worked perfectly for fine tuning.
by Blue_Collar
Sat Mar 21, 2020 12:25 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Folding Power: Medium Question
Replies: 4
Views: 656

Re: Folding Power: Medium Question

*Homer style D'oh* I paused the GPU from the control panel and CPU went down to ~77%. When I would toggle it to "Full" all the cores would go up to 100%, so I figured Medium Mode was working in some capacity. I just didn't put 2 and 2 together on the GPU folding have some CPU overhead, whi...
by Blue_Collar
Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:47 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Folding Power: Medium Question
Replies: 4
Views: 656

Folding Power: Medium Question

Morning All, So I read that the Medium Power slider settings is supposed to do ~75% CPU Utilization. For me, it seems to still be using almost 91-98%. Is there something obvious I'm missing? Here is a picture of my control panel and HW Monitor. Medium: https://imgur.com/a/PrCqMLK It's not a big deal...
by Blue_Collar
Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:48 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Viewer not working
Replies: 8
Views: 2028

Re: Viewer not working

I successfully used the 7.4.4 FAHViewer with 7.5.1, but with mixed success. It does connect, and it sees the Work Unit I am processing, however the model is messed up. I don't really know how to explain what it looks like super well, but it is essentially buried in thousands of purple circles that a...
by Blue_Collar
Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:20 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Ongoing and repeated emails from folding@home server
Replies: 16
Views: 1618

Re: Ongoing and repeated emails from folding@home server

I am up to 20+ copies of my Passkey lol