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Ok, folding has been going well with my system, well at least I thought so. I have a sidebar that shows cpu usage and all 4 cores show 100%. I checked task manager and I show all 4 cores at 100% also. I fired up Everest and under "motherboard" then "cpu" I am showing the followin...

Ok then. 7im, thanks for the wonderful Tray-It idea.....works great. Gonna change my other single core systems to console version now that I have that program! bruce, thanks for the in depth description of how the SMP version really works.....it all makes sense now. toTOW, reading your reply made me...

Since my single core systems stay pegged @100%, I figured each of the cores on the quad would do the same. Guess not huh?

So, the 1% completed every 15 min is about right then? For a quad core running the smp version?

I just built a system with a Q6600 cpu with folding in mind. I downloaded the SMP console and followed the instructions. (extract to folder on C: drive, run .bat file, start folding) The core usage is all over the place. No single core stays pegged @ 100%. They very from 10% to 100% for a split sec ...