Productivity Suddenly Dropped

[DrBB1]

I replaced my PC in September, and until about two weeks ago I had been earning about 400,000 points/day. Since then, however, I am averaging only about 30,000, more than a 90% drop. I checked my settings and they haven't changed: 10 cores available, always folding. I noticed that only four cores seem to be chugging away at 100% utilization when I fold; unfortunately, I don't know if more cores were active when I was being more productive. As far as I can tell, nothing new was installed on my PC around the time of the productivity drop.

Could this drop-off be due to the nature of the projects being made available? If not, I'd appreciate any further troubleshooting suggestions. TIA

[AZBrandon]

Any chance you can post the header of the log file when starting a new WU?

[muziqaz]

I replaced my PC in September, and until about two weeks ago I had been earning about 400,000 points/day. Since then, however, I am averaging only about 30,000, more than a 90% drop. I checked my settings and they haven't changed: 10 cores available, always folding. I noticed that only four cores seem to be chugging away at 100% utilization when I fold; unfortunately, I don't know if more cores were active when I was being more productive. As far as I can tell, nothing new was installed on my PC around the time of the productivity drop.

Could this drop-off be due to the nature of the projects being made available? If not, I'd appreciate any further troubleshooting suggestions. TIA

Mind reading ability does not grow on trees. Please provide full system specs

[DrBB1]

I'm not a hi-tech person, so excuse me if I'm not understanding all the jargon or need more clarity on attempts to help me. Is this the information requested?

CPU
Intel Core
Cores 10
Threads 10
Name Intel Core
Code Name Arrow Lake
Specification Intel Core Ultra 5 225
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model 6
Extended Model C6
Stepping 2
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel 64, NX, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3
Virtualization Not supported
Hyperthreading Not supported
Bus Speed 99.7 MHz
Average Temperature 38 °C
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 6 x 48 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 6 x 64 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 6 x 3072 KBytes
L3 Unified Cache Size 20480 KBytes
Cores
Core Speed Multiplier Bus Speed Temperature Threads
Core 0 2094.1 MHz x 21.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 0
Core 1 1595.5 MHz x 16.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 8
Core 2 1495.8 MHz x 15.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 16
Core 3 2891.8 MHz x 29.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 18
Core 4 1495.8 MHz x 15.0 99.7 MHz 40 °C APIC ID: 20
Core 5 2891.8 MHz x 29.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 22
Core 6 2193.8 MHz x 22.0 99.7 MHz 40 °C APIC ID: 32
Core 7 2094.1 MHz x 21.0 99.7 MHz 36 °C APIC ID: 40
Core 8 1794.9 MHz x 18.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 48
Core 9 2094.1 MHz x 21.0 99.7 MHz 38 °C APIC ID: 56

08:37:53:I1:WU526: CUDA: OFF
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Args: -dir sndtPBCkiy6o9xiT9xAD1IHThhrbk_IKhkqDRPNYle0 -suffix 01
08:37:53:I1:WU526: -version 8.4.9 -lifeline 25496 -np 10
08:37:53:I1:WU526:************************************ libFAH ************************************
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Date: Jan 16 2021
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Time: 11:24:13
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Revision: c5816759c404e4b65f9f364c3d1ef554a67c4225
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Branch: master
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Compiler: Visual C++ 2019 16.7
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Options: /TP /std:c++14 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2 /Zc:throwingNew /MT
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Platform: win32 10
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Bits: 64
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Mode: Release
08:37:53:I1:WU526:************************************ CBang *************************************
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Date: Jan 16 2021
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Time: 11:23:53
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Revision: c5816759c404e4b65f9f364c3d1ef554a67c4225
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Branch: master
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Compiler: Visual C++ 2019 16.7
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Options: /TP /std:c++14 /nologo /EHa /wd4297 /wd4103 /O2 /Zc:throwingNew /MT
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Platform: win32 10
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Bits: 64
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Mode: Release
08:37:53:I1:WU526:************************************ System ************************************
08:37:53:I1:WU526: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 225
08:37:53:I1:WU526: CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 198 Stepping 2
08:37:53:I1:WU526: CPUs: 10
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Memory: 15.46GiB
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Free Memory: 3.96GiB
08:37:53:I1:WU526: Threads: WINDOWS_THREADS
08:37:53:I1:WU526: OS Version: 6.2
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Has Battery: false
08:37:53:I1:WU526: On Battery: false
08:37:53:I1:WU526: UTC Offset: -5
08:37:53:I1:WU526: PID: 68744
08:37:53:I1:WU526: CWD: C:\ProgramData\FAHClient\work
08:37:53:I1:WU526:********************************************************************************
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Project: 19229 (Run 4335, Clone 9, Gen 4)
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Unit: 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Reading tar file core.xml
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Reading tar file md4.tpr
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Digital signatures verified
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Calling: mdrun -c md4.gro -s md4.tpr -x md4.xtc -cpt 5 -nt 10 -ntmpi 1
08:37:53:I1:WU526:Steps: first=2000000 total=2500000
08:38:16:I1:WU526:Completed 1 out of 500000 steps (0%)
08:53:21:I1:WU526:Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
09:08:25:I1:WU526:Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2%)
09:23:29:I1:WU526:Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3%)

[muziqaz]

Your CPU has performance (6) and eco (4) cores.
Go into fah settings an set the CPU slider to 6, to fold on 6 Performance cores, and let eco cores be.
On top of that write to your local intel representative to express your opinion on how their big.shittle CPU architecture is crap
Well, skip that last bit, they won't listen.
See how those 6 cores perform