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Intelman34

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Cold weather always seems to bring out my need to Fold so I fired up my one and only machine.

The last time I was pushing WU's, it was with an i7 and a GTX480. Now it is with a Phenom II X4 N950 and HD 6650M. At least the 6650M is overclocked ;-). I am using the new client.

I won't make a huge impact, but i'll be looking to slowly crawl up from my current rank of 446!

Question though... It is showing a TPF of 1 hour 54 minutes for the CPU (FAH a4 core). Is it even worth letting this run? Or should I just run the GPU? That is showing 8min 50 seconds TPF on the FAH 16 core.
 
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You'd probably be better off with just the CPU honestly. What project# is it? You can't really say if 1:54:00 is fast or slow without knowing what project it is, however I know that MOST of the SMP projects should be WAY faster than that, even on that CPU. I have a box running a 1st gen Phenom and it hits 1hr tpf's on some wu's but I don't think I have even seen it hit 2h.
 
Make sure you sign up for a passkey, as it is required to qualify for bonus points, as well as 10 completed WU with passkey plus 80%+ completion ratio.
 
I'd fold on my GPU again if it didn't raise its dBA output to around 85 :(
 
Yeah I would like to know what WU you got. Most of my boxes running the a4 core are under 20min, ppd ranges from 12k-35k.
 
There are rumors that core a4 does have a bug in it that leads some wu to very long frame times, followed by an upload that the work server sees as corrupt. unfortunately there is no way of telling whther your wu is affected or not. you have 2 choices fold on and take the oocasional hit or change to the older v6 client and get more a3 wu
 
Have you enabled a passkey and turned in 10 wu's, and have an 80% completion rate? If not yet, then you will not get very many points. Turn on that passkey and let it fold for a bit then you will be making more points. I would expect 5-8k ppd from your cpu.
 
Intelman34 said:
It shows up as Project 8004. Now shows up as 13 min TPF.
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Actually, now that I've looked at my benchmarks, I have a box with a Phenom 1 that is getting 2min TPF's on that WU, so you are still folding really slow. Is that with your box idle, or are you using it also as using your box will slow it down a pretty good amount due to context switches and cache thrashing.
 
I have a passkey set, but haven't turned in 10 WU's yet.

Task manager shows all 4 cores at 100%. 25% is being used by the GPU core.

This is a mobile cpu clocked at 2.1ghz
 
Is the SMP core set to use 3 cpu's? Or is it trying to use 4 and only getting 3? If it is the later that will slow you down a lot. Either ditch the GPU, or set the SMP to 3 CPU's.
 
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Is the SMP core set to use 3 cpu's? Or is it trying to use 4 and only getting 3? If it is the later that will slow you down a lot. Either ditch the GPU, or set the SMP to 3 CPU's.
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this
 
I'm just guessing that cpu should be in the 3k to 4k range with bonuses, but that might even be generous. 2MB cache for 4 cores is no doubt holding them back. It might be that your processor is throttling if whatever laptop it's in can't handle the heat as you definitely should be getting more than what you are currently getting.

I would also look into trying the older 6.34 client. On one box I had the V7 just wasn't working right. A CPU that should generate 20K ppd was doing less than 1,000.
 
extide said:
Is the SMP core set to use 3 cpu's? Or is it trying to use 4 and only getting 3? If it is the later that will slow you down a lot. Either ditch the GPU, or set the SMP to 3 CPU's.
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Another +1 on this. Also, after you do this and test for a while, you may need to set the core-priority on the GPU slot to *low*. The default for everything is idle and as you are CPU folding, this may starve the GPU. However note that my experience is with multiple nvidia GPUs in one dedicated box, so this may/may not help. Test and confirm what works for you.
 
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