starting up F@H again

[Ultima]

Hi guys,

been away for a long time, but am back again

I installed F@H on my workstation, hope she'll cranck out some nice numbers.

System is a 16 core bulldozer rig, so more like 8 cores with hardware hyperthreading. LOL

what's are teams stats page again??

cheers

Ultima

[Ultima]

I downloaded the latest client, but how can I make sure it doesn't use 100% cpu all the time, cause that might heat up things a bit too much

and do we have a seti@home team??

[RicheemxX]

We had a seti team going for awhile. I'm not sure that anyone is still active

Join Seti's TechIMO.com

[paul9]

F@H is team 111.
I usually run it on my PS3, but I rarely even switch that on, lately.
PS3 version is in the Life at Home software thingymabob.

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

I downloaded the latest client, but how can I make sure it doesn't use 100% cpu all the time, cause that might heat up things a bit too much

and do we have a seti@home team??

Doesn't appear to have a percentage CPU usage setting any more, or at least the client I'm using doesn't....but you can configure it to limit the number of cores it uses - which is kinda of the same end result..

I've attached a quick screenie of how to get to that point, hope it makes sense....

[Ultima]

Hi Nude_Lewd_Man,

thanks for the info, I seem to have the same client, so I'll check it out tonight. then I should be able to set it to max 8 cores or something.
Yesterday I ram the client, all 16 cores @ 100%, within notime the cores ran up to 70C degrees, at which point they started throttling.

I know, I need better cooling I'll get to work on that

[paul9]

I'll bet that system runs Minesweeper and Solitaire pretty sweetly.

[Ultima]

hehehe, you'd be suprised

last night I noticed serious lagging when playing Solitaire LOL

It plays every game I throw at it just fine, altho nowadays FULL HD gaming isn't so much of a challenge anymore for these kinda graphic cards.
The 2 x M4 64GB drives have been replaced by 1 Samsung 830 128GB btw

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

Yet you blame F@H for the temps...???

[SoloCamo]

Hrmm, this is enough for me to start running F@H again as well..

Running an 8-core AMD myself (fx-8120).. I've got 300mhz on your, but you've got double the cores, so I think you win

This said, the latest client I download does indeed let you (on a sliding scale) adjust the percentage of cpu usage you want to have used. It also gives the options to lock to certain cores, etc.

What was TechIMO's team number? Wanted to join up again

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

TechIMO's Team number is #111...

[SoloCamo]

TechIMO's Team number is #111...

Thanks...some reason I thought it was 113 and set it to that... woops! On the team again anyways!

Might as well put my 8-core to good use after all!

[Ultima]

hehehe, you don't necessarily have 300Mhz on me

My opterons have turbo core up to 3.5Ghz and when F@H is running, they always run 3100Mhz and higher, so....
but indeed, cores over speed (to a degree ofcourse), just need to find better cooling