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I have a Phenom II X6 1090T a six core processor. FAH use only 2 core. The cpu utilization is only about 30-35%. I want to use atleast 3 or 4 core.I set the "folding power" to medium but still use 2 core. The full power is same.

I'm om project 13851 right now.

Posting FAH's log:
How to provide enough info to get helpful support.

Move the power slider to Full.

If you have a GPU, one CPU thread will always be reserved to supply data to the GPU.

The number of CPUs allocated can be adjusted using FAHControl but any increases apply only to new assignments.

I did not see your log, but you can.

look for parameters -np and -nt the number after them is how many threads you are using.

To change it, here are directions:

In the taskbar to the lower right of the screen, you should see a F@H molecule icon, click it (you may need to click an Up Arrow to see it ^)

The second item in this menu is Advanced Control, click it

On this screen to the left is a Configure button, click it

Now you get a screen with a Slots tab, click it

On this white field should be a cpu item, click it and then click edit

By default F@H set the number of CPUs to -1 meaning let the software decide.
You can enter any number from 1 to the number of threads you CPU supports.
If you have GPUs, F@H reserves one CPU per GPU to feed it data across the PCIE bus.
F@H has difficulty with large primes and their multiples number of CPUs.
7 is always large, 5 is sometimes large, and 3 is never large. Try to choose a number that is a multiple of 2 and/or 3.
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 27, etc. are good numbers of CPUs to choose.
5. 10. 15, 20 etc may work most of the time. Other numbers will bite you.

Now choose the number you want, and save.

Having said that, the new 7.51 client tries to automatically shift down to a safe number.