Sharky Forums Folding Team

**OS-Wiz** · 10-26-2003, 01:58 PM

Hi All, I'm onboard now. Set it up on my Server so it'll be dedicated to F@H except when my Sister downloads family photos

It appears to have two processes running in WinXP, FahCore_65 and winFAH that together are averaging about 99% of my AMD2000+ CPU.

**Mojo** · 10-26-2003, 05:54 PM

Short question....

On one of my rigs, I'm only getting 50% usage for the FAH service. It's a 2.4 P4C. How do you get the second 'virtual CPU' to kick in as well? Under advanced in the service properties, I have both CPU's ticked. Or is it actually giving more than 50% as I suspect?

Oh well, both my 24/7 rig's will be putting up WU's in the next few hours. My 2.4 and XP2000+ are only on about 3h/day. Hope to have 3 more 2GHz P4's running 24/7 in a few weeks

Like Thermo, we got servers that just won't be needed...

**Thermo** · 10-26-2003, 06:02 PM

F@H has some issues with hyper threading. I think they recomend turning it off.

**sapasion** · 10-26-2003, 06:14 PM

AMD cpu people might wanna try this here its the beta for 3.25 which supposedly allows SSE usage. I just grabbed it myself

**lonewolfroger** · 10-26-2003, 06:44 PM

Originally posted by sapasion
AMD cpu people might wanna try this here its the beta for 3.25 which supposedly allows SSE usage. I just grabbed it myself

I got it, but I guess I should have got the one with graphics, because I don`t know how to get into options or how to pause it or anything with the console. Fixed it by getting the graphic one. I`m outa here. Edit to add: I hope this beta is faster for AMD, because I just got a 400, that looks like it will take forever.

**speedyaxon** · 10-26-2003, 10:15 PM

i'm using the 3.5 with sse now too, the graphical one...i don't think it's slower, that's for sure...but i don't know about neutral or faster, kind of hard to quantify...saps, why do you have such a low wu/score ratio? Is that just luck of the draw or what?

**sapasion** · 10-26-2003, 10:29 PM

I believe I'm getting credit for units I have not finished. If I bring up the display on the icon it says I've finished 8 WU's. My PSU problems are very likely the cause.

**schultz** · 10-27-2003, 05:53 AM

so does the 3.25 seem to be running better for everyone so far? is it worth downloading and installing? i've completed one wu so far and i'm on my second. i've now scored two 2500s in a row...perfect way to start. how exactly are the points distributed? any one figure it out yet? just curious...and thanks for the welcome!

**OS-Wiz** · 10-27-2003, 07:10 AM

Well, I've been working on string p692_L939_K12M_int since yesterday afternoon (about 14 hrs) and only completed 146/400. F@H getting 99% of CPU. I guess some WUs are larger/more instense than others . . .

**sapasion** · 10-27-2003, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by schultz
so does the 3.25 seem to be running better for everyone so far? is it worth downloading and installing? i've completed one wu so far and i'm on my second. i've now scored two 2500s in a row...perfect way to start. how exactly are the points distributed? any one figure it out yet? just curious...and thanks for the welcome!

It seems to for me. I went to 3.25 and adding the -forceasm to my target. Its debateable whether the -forceasm is necessary to maintain SSE or not because 3.25 is supposed to maintain it. It doesn't seem to hurt though so I'm sticking with it. However like OSWiz said above certain WU's are faster and some are slower. I'm also on a 400 point WU which goes thru one at a time unlike the 500's which usually go in increments of 5 or the 2500's which go in 25's. Anyway, with 3.24 it was taking me over 7 minutes per point. With 3.25 and -forceasm its not less than 6 minutes per point. This is roughly the 20% faster they promise with SSE. I just which I was running at 2.5Ghz instead of 1.7Ghz. Still waiting on Antec and their RMA number.

**Saffire** · 10-27-2003, 02:23 PM

I'll join too, right now got a work computer up and running it (its like a p3 600

), and will probably get this entire lab running it if I can. First thing it gave me was a 400 (not that I have any clue what it means). I'll set it up on my computers at home whenever I get them back up to speed.

**sapasion** · 10-27-2003, 02:34 PM

Welcome aboard. The 400's take a long time but should give you a massive score

**lonewolfroger** · 10-27-2003, 02:46 PM

The 400 I got shows its worth about 71 points. BTW, sapasion, how do you forceasm, I don`t see no such option with the 3.25 beta, I downloaded. Thats what I get for being so ignorant about how to do this right and asking so many questions.

**sapasion** · 10-27-2003, 03:02 PM

Just add it to your target
I also added -advmethods. Rumor is this will make you get WU's with big points. -forceasm enables SSE always

**lonewolfroger** · 10-27-2003, 03:36 PM

Thanks, on this 400 I got, I`m getting 1 point every 5 min. it looks like, I guess that is good.

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