F@H CPU help?

Ryan_Fpv

Ryan_Fpv

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Thought I'd try the F@H thing (of course I've put my team as 44358), but it seems to be taking a very long time, about 5 minutes to complete 1% (of 250).
F@H is only using 10%-15% of my CPU. I had a google of this earlier, and a few results said that your CPU might have been getting too hot and F@H was limiting it to stop it from over heating, this was when I was using the stock intel cooler and it was at about 45*C when at 10%-15%.
I've just installed a new coolermaster TX3 cooler, and it's running at about 36*C for 10%-15%. Despite it being cooler, F@H won't use anymore than 15% of my CPU.
I've gone into the config and made sure that the CPU is set to use 100% in the settings.

Is there any reason why it's only using 15% CPU? Are there any tricks to boost it up to make it use say, 40%?

My PC hardware is shown below:
 
I've just installed the SMP client, and followed the install guide on the website. When I try to run it though, I get a message saying it can't connect to get the work packets. I'm not that smart when it comes to msdos so I've probably messed something up... Any ideas? Solutions?

[12:08:33] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:08:33] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[12:08:33] Cleaning up work directory
[12:08:33] + Attempting to get work packet
[12:08:33] - Connecting to assignment server
[12:08:48] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[12:08:48] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[12:08:48] - Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[12:08:59] + Attempting to get work packet
[12:08:59] - Connecting to assignment server
[12:09:07] + No appropriate work server was available; will try again in a bit.
[12:09:07] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[12:09:07] - Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.
 
Nevermind, set package size to "Normal" instead of "Small" and it worked.
90-100% CPU usage, that's more like it.
Thanks.
 
Cool...it's rolling now!

There is a neat program called FAHMON. It will track and record your Folding progress and show the PPD (Points Per Day) that you average. This is also a little tricky to set up. I made a post about it some where...I'll see if I can find it!

http://fahmon.net/
 
Downloaded & installed, added the clients and such, seems to be working fine.
Thanks for your help, better look out or I might catch up to you (in a few decades time) :P
 
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