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[loft]

eikon -- to change the CPU usage you have to enable advanced mode (expand or maximize window), pause the current work unit, and click on Configure.

From there -- Click on 'Advanced' and move the slider for 'Percent CPU Usage'. You can experiment with this to see what allows you enough free cpu to do what you need to do. Set it, save, and click Fold. If you need to modify it again, start from Pausing the work unit.

Regarding the atom, it'll take a long time for it to get any work done. You can test it, and as long as it meets the deadlines for the work units then it'll be fine.

 

[Throttles]

Well....not what I wanted to wake up and see...looks like I have 2 machines offline ATM and judging by work email it is because of power loss last night

All good though...firing up 3 new ones tonight.

 

[loft]

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Well....not what I wanted to wake up and see...looks like I have 2 machines offline ATM and judging by work email it is because of power loss last night

All good though...firing up 3 new ones tonight.

Oh no! Well, you will be back in no time. I'm having an issue as well... for some reason my cpu is spiking ~75c across all cores on my i7 where it normally was about 65c. Too lazy to really look into it so I'm only folding when I'm at my machine.

 

[loft]

So just now my system tripped 80c which resulted in my thermal monitor to force my system to shut down. Starting to wonder if my cooler is on it's way out... can't wait until this new system is made.

 

[Dusty_D]

So just now my system tripped 80c which resulted in my thermal monitor to force my system to shut down. Starting to wonder if my cooler is on it's way out... can't wait until this new system is made.

You need a picture to quantify what it is you're doing here.. maybe this one?!

 

[Throttles]

I just save on the heating costs and turn it way down .....let the computers fold and heat this place up lol

 

[loft]

You need a picture to quantify what it is you're doing here.. maybe this one?!

Lol basically. My ppd on my cpu has also dropped significantly. Hoping I didn't burn the chip. Only doing gpu folding atm. :-(

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[Glen2da]

At the very least I'll let it run overnights.

 

[Throttles]

We are now #49 in the top 50 for 24/hr avg point teams!

 

[b_1620]

Lol basically. My ppd on my cpu has also dropped significantly. Hoping I didn't burn the chip. Only doing gpu folding atm. :-(

I have seen some wu's that can stress and heat up the cpu more then others but 65 to 80 is quite a jump. I wouldn't think the chip would be fried though. I had a water cooled 2500k folding and the fan controller died, stopping all the fans while I was sleeping. When I woke up and checked the temps it had reached 95c. Still works fine to this day though.

 

[loft]

Yeah, I'm aware of different WU's causing different amounts of stress/work/heat. Right now I'm not folding. Either my cooler is on it's way out (Corsair H50) or the chip is charred. Core 0 is running significantly cooler than the other four cores (Average is 68c but core 0 is running 56c) so I need to spend some time with it over the next day or so and see if I can get the temps to stabilize. Then again there's Valentines Day... argh lol.

 

[Throttles]

I swear I am going to start locking these PCs here at work down.

 

[Moofaso]

I an trying to not fold on my laptop as the core temp is way too high, so I had a system built just for folding. It is running with an AMD Radeon HD 6500 video card. When I installed folding@home SW it recognized the card and I chose to install with GPU and SMP options. The SMP is folding, but the GPU is doing nothing, although is says running. Is there something special I need to do to get the GPU working? Also, the ABOUT PROJECT area of the software has been saying 500 internal server error for weeks now, even on my laptop. How do I go about getting that to display the info on the folds again?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

 

[hotrod3539]

Also, the ABOUT PROJECT area of the software has been saying 500 internal server error for weeks now, even on my laptop. How do I go about getting that to display the info on the folds again?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

I am wondering the same thing. I liked reading some of the descriptions (some would help me get to sleep lol!)

 

[cmcelroy09]

Just downloaded and letting it run now!

 

[loft]

I an trying to not fold on my laptop as the core temp is way too high, so I had a system built just for folding. It is running with an AMD Radeon HD 6500 video card. When I installed folding@home SW it recognized the card and I chose to install with GPU and SMP options. The SMP is folding, but the GPU is doing nothing, although is says running. Is there something special I need to do to get the GPU working? Also, the ABOUT PROJECT area of the software has been saying 500 internal server error for weeks now, even on my laptop. How do I go about getting that to display the info on the folds again?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Set your client to advanced and then look at 'Folding Slots' and tell me... does it have two lines? Something like 00 Running SMP:8? And if it has 8 then we need to change that to 6 so your cpu/gpu aren't being choked. It's a limitation of the ATI cards and folding.

 

[Moofaso]

two lines, one says gpu:0 and the second says smp:4 . The GPU is running now along with the smp, but the PPD I am getting is less than half what I was getting from my laptop, which was running an intel i7 threaded to 8 cores. I am now running an AMD A8 processor, but the client is only recognizing my video card and not the APU.

 

[loft]

two lines, one says gpu:0 and the second says smp:4 . The GPU is running now along with the smp, but the PPD I am getting is less than half what I was getting from my laptop, which was running an intel i7 threaded to 8 cores. I am now running an AMD A8 processor, but the client is only recognizing my video card and not the APU.

If the max amount of cores/threads you can run is 4, then set the smp to 2. Intel is better for folding SMP over the AMD but the logic still applies for choking regarding the ATI card. You need at least one thread/core for the drivers to effectively communicate and if you don't have that, the GPU thread is going to constantly interrupt the SMP thread with requests to process - it makes the F@H client think your system isn't "idle" so it doesn't work 100%.

Click on Pause; then click Configure > Slots > SMP > Edit -- then set the SMP thread to 2 (default is -1) and then click ok and save, then click fold.

That should increase your PPD on your GPU thread but the SMP thread will still be less than the i7 system.

 

[Moofaso]

ok done, but my PPD is still really bad. I was getting 8-9k on my laptop, BUT I was averaging 81 degrees core temp. Now I am getting between 2.5 and 4k PPD, but temp is a very nice 34 degrees. The video card is working extremely slow, do I have a bad card for folding? My processor has a built in GPU that I want to use, but the software isn't recognizing it.

 

[loft]

ok done, but my PPD is still really bad. I was getting 8-9k on my laptop, BUT I was averaging 81 degrees core temp. Now I am getting between 2.5 and 4k PPD, but temp is a very nice 34 degrees. The video card is working extremely slow, do I have a bad card for folding? My processor has a built in GPU that I want to use, but the software isn't recognizing it.

Sadly ATI cards aren't optimized for folding. The most I got on my heavily overclocked 5850 was 10k PPD. Same goes for AMD, they aren't number crunchers like Intel. Regardless of what you're using - it still helps in the end so don't feel that you're doing this for nothing.

Also - you can try running this AMD system as a Uniprocessor to see if it will work better/more efficient.