Folding Forum

By default the FAHClient reserves a single thread for each graphics card slot and assigns the rest to the CPU slot, the setting for this is '-1'. The i7-6900K is a 8 core 16 thread processor. Change the CPU slot assignment to 13 or 14. You weren't kidding... Going from 7 cores to 5 (I have HT turne...

Actually with a potential pool of gamer/enthusiasts with rtx 3000 series and 32, 64 or even 128GB rigs the opportunity for some researcher to push the modeling boundaries further might be here? The fah dev team and the science people talk amongst themselves and perhaps with one another about this o...

FAH needs only a few GB to run even the biggest work units. ... currently. Is there reason to believe that WU will become larger or somehow else require much more memory? I think one of the two crunching tasks eats about 240-260 MB of RAM, the other much less so. EDIT: I have never seen more than 1...

Make sure XMP is enabled. Sticks are rated 2,400 MHz for use with XMP. I haven't tried clocking them higher tho. By default XMP is disabled and your memory runs at 2133MHz. If you open up the task manager -> performance tab -> Memory readout On the right about halfway down should be a readout of yo...

You don't need a storage array, you're only wasting electricity. If this is a dedicated folding rig then disconnect any other drives in the system. Again, they're drawing power for no use. Dual SSD? Make sure XMP is enabled. Sticks are rated 2,400 MHz for use with XMP. I haven't tried clocking them...

I have an i7-6900K with 64 GB RAM running Win10 off an SSD array, and one EVGA GTX 970. I would like to further optimize my system to run f@h and I think my only two moves would be upgrading to more/better GPU and/or migrating to Linux. But GPUs are so expensive now that anything more powerful than ...

I did some 2 Core folding along with a GTX 1050 on a i3 530 (2 Cores 4 Threads) with no problems. I often read "use 1 core per GPU" but as i also use old hardware (some Phenom X6) its more like 1,5 cores for stable folding. If you use a very powerful GPU I would recommend you to leave 2 c...

FAH is always bottlenecked on one or more resource. Most commonly, it saturates the GPU shaders (except if there are too many of them for the number of atoms or not enough free CPU cycles to transfer data to.from the GPU) and it always saturates the number of CPU threads that are allocated. If tran...

Checking the forums, I didn’t see anything to directly address this. Can someone link me to a post or other resource? I wonder which GPU, or type of GPU, would allow for maximum/best folding performance without bottlenecking. Dell Precision T1500 16 GB RAM (maxed) Core i5-750 (may upgrade to i7-880)...