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Title: Drop in my activity
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on August 12, 2009, 12:17:00 PM

I recently moved my i7 system to Windows 7 and let the GF at it to see her initial impressions of the OS and what she has issues with to help give me an understanding of what many end users will have a problems with. When I did this F@H stopped working and haven't really troubleshot it yet so I'll be dropping significantly in F@H WU's since that system was my bread and butter machine. ;)

Just a FYI, she's actually enjoying 7 like most people seem to be, however did almost immediately notice that Windows Movie Maker is no longer found in Windows 7. Which is amazing Microsoft decided to take that out.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Ugarte on August 12, 2009, 03:58:58 PM

I'm taking a hiatus as well.  Wasn't liking the temps I was getting.  Bought a Scythe Mugen 2 heatsink, but am struggling with the installation.  Idles at 55C now instead of 50  :-\ and I see 100C under load, tsk tsk.  Once I figure this out, I'll start the fold once more.  Didn't crack Top 5  :'(

(http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/35-185-093-04.jpg)

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Aegis on August 12, 2009, 03:59:08 PM

This is entirely unacceptable, you know.   ;D

Thanks for informing us -- I'd noticed a drop in some of the statistics, and wondered about it.

Ugarte, is that a heat sink, or part of the hadron collider?   :o

The rest of us will keep plugging along...   ;)

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Ugarte on August 12, 2009, 04:06:12 PM

Right now? $35 paper weight  ::)

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: BC_Programmer on August 12, 2009, 10:30:05 PM

my quad core idles around 60... but never goes about 65.

I'm using the stock heatsink.

because of my new build my laptop has been running F&H 24/7 for the last few weeks... yet to install the SMP client on this machine.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Ugarte on August 13, 2009, 09:28:02 PM

I'm back in the folding business starting.... now.
(http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm105/UgarteTheRogue/NewHS.jpg)
Idling at 35, gaming peaks at 65, Folding with 2 SMP clients and 1 GPU client at 70.  Once more unto the breach, dear friends.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: harry 48 on August 14, 2009, 03:29:33 PM

the picture looks great wish i new what it all was , what do you mean below and how do i find out whats happening in my pc


Idling at 35, gaming peaks at 65, Folding with 2 SMP clients and 1 GPU client at 70.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Ugarte on August 14, 2009, 05:59:08 PM

Those are the temperatures of my CPU (in celsius) when my computer is idling (doing nothing), playing a game, or using F@H.

If you want to check your own computer's temperatures, you can download and install RealTemp
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Real-Temp.shtml
In my case, it shows the graphics card temperature, and 4 more temperatures because I'm using a quad-core processor.  Yours may differ.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: computeruler on August 14, 2009, 06:45:20 PM

I have the same cpu cooler.  But you said you are running 2 smp clients on one computer? Will that increase the amount of points I am getting?

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Ugarte on August 14, 2009, 07:20:27 PM

I've heard some mixed answers to that.  The smp client is supposed to put all the cores to work, but when I use one smp client, it shows my cpu usage at %50.  The explanations to this went over my head, the jist of it was that the windows clients are inefficient, works better on linux.  Running a second smp client takes my cpu usage up to %100, but I don't know if the performance suffers or not, haven't taken note of the differences yet.  Maybe I'll do a little comparison once I get them up and running.  Like I said in the other forum post, work servers seem to be on the fritz now.  Both of my smp clients lost connection, GPU is still going strong, though.

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: computeruler on August 14, 2009, 07:42:32 PM

Ohh well mines aready at 100 so I guess theres no need to do that

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: patio on August 14, 2009, 07:50:07 PM

Yellow doesn't look good on you Harry...

Title: Re: Drop in my activity
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on November 06, 2009, 03:34:30 AM

With a lot of my 7 testing and re-installing done I've got my i7 system up and running again with F@H yesterday should help the team some more. :)