jimma47
New member
On the back of stevehat1's awesome contribution I decided to have a look at folding again. I ran it for around a week while I was away from my PC and it generated heaps of points but also heaps of heat. I'm not on water so I'm a little concerned about how it will affect hardware longevity.
I run a 3770k and dual 980's. I can't seem to be able to set up to fold at anything less than maximum. Whether I'm setting to Full, Medium or Light it seems to use 98-100% CPU and GPUs.
I also had an issue where it won't detect idle properly so lost three days where I thought it was running but alas it was just sitting at the desktop doing nothing.
With summer coming up in Aus and as I've now moved my rig to my apartment (the building has finally been connected to the network) I'd like some help setting things up.
I looked at the FAH guides and played with the client and it doesn't seem to make a difference. It either runs 100% load or nothing. The guides are all about flags and -np2 and things that just don't make sense to my noobishness.
I'd ideally like to be able to fold only on idle and set a maximum percentage of workload for the CPU or GPU. Say 70%
Otherwise I'm happy to let her run full tilt for a week now and then but I think running a lighter load more often would be better overall.
Long story short:
edit - Win10 Pro, latest version of the client from F@H
Cheers
I run a 3770k and dual 980's. I can't seem to be able to set up to fold at anything less than maximum. Whether I'm setting to Full, Medium or Light it seems to use 98-100% CPU and GPUs.
I also had an issue where it won't detect idle properly so lost three days where I thought it was running but alas it was just sitting at the desktop doing nothing.
With summer coming up in Aus and as I've now moved my rig to my apartment (the building has finally been connected to the network) I'd like some help setting things up.
I looked at the FAH guides and played with the client and it doesn't seem to make a difference. It either runs 100% load or nothing. The guides are all about flags and -np2 and things that just don't make sense to my noobishness.
I'd ideally like to be able to fold only on idle and set a maximum percentage of workload for the CPU or GPU. Say 70%
Otherwise I'm happy to let her run full tilt for a week now and then but I think running a lighter load more often would be better overall.
Long story short:
- Is it possible to set limits for usage?
- How does the client determine 'idle'? Do background apps (GPU TweakII, Corsair Link, NZXT CAM) prevent idle?
edit - Win10 Pro, latest version of the client from F@H
Cheers
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