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Hi,

How do I turn off GPU usage? When I initally set up FAH the screen indicated that all the settings would be changeable later. I see some settings but I do not see a way to use ONLY the cpu. My GPU's get too hot for this and I have to blast my fans to keep them at 70 c.

Hello Gamtu and welcome to the folding support forum.

You can right click on the GPU slot and select Finish. By doing that the client will not download another work unit for your GPU after it finishes the current one.

You can delete the GPU slot by:

Configure > Slots > Highlight the GPU slot > Remove > Save

Welcome to foldingforum.org, Gamtu.

70C is exceptionally cool for a GPU. CPUs like to run in that range but GPUs typically run quite a bit hotter. Of course it's entirely up to you.

Thank you for your help.

Yes 70C isn't bad. I have two MSI GTX460's and they have awsome heat sinks on them. One problem with them sitting at 70 is they heat the room up too much. Also I have to run the system fan on the computer much higher to keep them in the 70C range so it gets really noisy.

I have a liquid cooled quadcore cpu and the noise and heat seem to be much more manageable from it.

I have a similar problem but not with heat, but with bad high-pitch noise my GPU produces under this (and only this) load. So my question is whether there is a command line option to pause and run again only GPU slot? I would put them in sheduler to autostart when I am away from PC.
Or may be there is another way to utilise GRU only when screensaver running AND being able to _easily_ pause it completely, while CPU module runs around the clock?

Barafu Albino wrote:...So my question is whether there is a command line option to pause and run again only GPU slot?

Hello Barafu Albino, welcome to the forum.

Yes, there is.
where x is the slot number to be paused.

unpause x when done gaming.


P.S. And there was a Windows Script code posted very recently to do the same thing, but I couldn't find it. Bueller ?

Hello Barafu and welcome to the folding support forum.

You can pause a slot by right-clicking(under "Folding Slots") on the one you want to stop and selecting pause. Same procedure but select Fold to continue processing.

@7im

This one?

viewtopic.php?p=222775#p222775

Yes, thanks.

Thanks for the CLI. The script is essentially the same thing, wrapped in Basic, so no difference. I can put commands directly into Win7 sheduler instead. (It took them only 10 years to copy this useful utility into Windows