Folding like its 2005

[DarthCleric]

Dear [H]ard folders

I am writing you from the mystical past when 3k ppd was "good".


Truth be told, my system is an AMD A8-3850 APU on an Asus F1A75-V Pro. My current setup is pictured below:

I get about 3.5k ppd running both CPU and on die GPU (integrated graphics). When I shut down the gpu process so it is only running smp process it runs at 1100 ppd. When I shut down the smp process and only run the gpu process I get about 2.9k ppd.

I am looking over the settings, I have tried the uni-processor on the CPU side, I have tried disabling optimized code. I have played with "locking to core" but i didn't see a difference. I honestly am out of ideas on what could be done to get more out of my processor.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

 

[tjmagneto]

I'm not sure what the expected PPD would be but there's a few things you might want to check.

The first thing I'd check is Windows power management and make sure your computer is not falling asleep on you.
From the CPU side take a look at the power management settings in BIOS and see if making changes to them helps your PPD.

 

[Kendrak]

That CPU should be pushing over 4k.

A q6600 does 3k at stock. This should be faster with DDR3 and such.

Something is off like TJ said.

 

[DarthCleric]

I checked power management, It shows that I am in the performance settings in the bios and have sleep mode off. In fact I turned screen sleep off just so it would not change anything if I leave it for an hour.

I did however manage to get it to go to 5k ppd. I am running it in xp compatibility mode. So something makes me think that windows 7 run on this hardware is the cause. I am somewhat virtualizing my machine by running it in xp mode mode.

SMP : 2200
GPU : 2795
SMP + GPU : 5060

I am tempted to find a bootable usb stick and see if it works better in another environment.

 

[n3zyd]

my .02 in your win 7 power settings/advanced, make sure hybrid sleep is off too.
I have noticed my SMP points have dropped from 5000avg to 2500 ppd on a Q9400 @3.2

 

[sirmonkey1985]

That CPU should be pushing over 4k.

A q6600 does 3k at stock. This should be faster with DDR3 and such.

Something is off like TJ said.

depends on the WU.. 4k is a bit generous at 2.9Ghz. my phenom II 940 @ 3.5 ghz did between 3-7k ppd depending on the WU. the DDR3 doesn't really make a big difference in standard SMP like it does with bigadv. the part that makes a huge difference the memory bandwidth which can only be changed with the bus clock which you can't change if you are using the IGP.

while i agree sub 2k sounds a bit off my guess is it has something to do with the way the igp and cpu are integrated into each other. though the only way i could see testing that is by disabling the IGP and using a dedicated card to see if the cpu folding performance increases or still stays at 1100 ppd.

btw darth you should not be running it in xp mode, there is no reason to do that. but the second set of ppd numbers sounds about right if you are folding on the gpu as well since the amd gpu client blows.