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I think it would be a lot better to have it set up so it detects the threads you have and gives you a drop down menu that allows you to choose however many threads you want to run. If I had an i7 I might choose 6 threads so I can have one core free... or if I had a tri-core I might choose 2 to leave the 3rd core free..
 

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What, no comments? :(
 

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I have always run 100%, even on my daily driver without issue.

If you have gaming issues, turn off the crunching while you game and back on when you're done.

CRUNCH/FOLD hard and often
 

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I am talking about this:

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I think it would be a lot better to have it set up so it detects the threads you have and gives you a drop down menu that allows you to choose however many threads you want to run. If I had an i7 I might choose 6 threads so I can have one core free... or if I had a tri-core I might choose 2 to leave the 3rd core free..
I agree. I'd rather it only use 6 of 8 threads rather than 8 threads and throttle them (idle % of time). I do end up killing WCG quite often because it screws with audio on a lot of games.
 

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I have always run 100%, even on my daily driver without issue.

If you have gaming issues, turn off the crunching while you game and back on when you're done.

CRUNCH/FOLD hard and often

I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...
 

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I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...


My media player works fine, must be my antique AMD 180:rockout:
 
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If I had an HT proc, I would probably like to be able to use 7 threads for crunching and keep 1 free for everything else. However, with my Q9550 I run at 100% on all cores and have to pause if I want to do any work (games? I've forgotten how to play games since I started crunching and folding :rolleyes:).
 

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I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...

Really?:confused: I haven't had this issue on the Pentium M, the Q9400, the E6550, or any of the P4/Celerons. All of them are running XP Pro SP3. I've had issues with F@H GPU causing lag in applications such as WMP, but only the GPU client and never with WCG. :confused:
 
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Go into your WCG profile for your particular cruncher that you only want 6 or 8 or whatsever cores & change it. ;) Under advanced options:
Processor usage:

 

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Go into your WCG profile for your particular cruncher that you only want 6 or 8 or whatsever cores & change it. ;) Under advanced options:
Processor usage:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=29361&stc=1&d=1254852971

I think that's processors not cores. If you're running an i7 with 4 cores and 4 ht, total of 8 threads.. by setting it to only run 6 processors would not work for threads. Because you're still only using one processor. I could be wrong, as i've not tested it. Easy enough to test though.. just set it to 1 and see if WCG still uses all cores and ht threads.

You can always go into windows Task Manager, and set Processor Affinity for each process.
 
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I think that's processors not cores. If you're running an i7 with 4 cores and 4 ht, total of 8 threads.. by setting it to only run 6 processors would not work for threads. Because you're still only using one processor. I could be wrong, as i've not tested it. Easy enough to test though.. just set it to 1 and see if WCG still uses all cores and ht threads.

You can always go into windows Task Manager, and set Processor Affinity for each process.

Well I dont have an I7 yet, but i know from having Movieman on my account before, I had to change it to 8 cores because he had 2 idle when I had it set to 6. That was on the one DP he added for me.
 

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Well I dont have an I7 yet, but i know from having Movieman on my account before, I had to change it to 8 cores because he had 2 idle when I had it set to 6. That was on the one DP he added for me.

I don't have an i7 either..;) but i hope to have one someday... hehehe That's good to know about your findings. :toast:
 

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Can't you do this in Task Manager by setting an affinity to which core you would like to utilize?

EDIT:

Yes you can!



It only lasts until the project your crunching reports it though.
 
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