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Furiey
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I seem to remember him saying earlier on in this thread who he was (civfanatics that is).
I probably have a very low ppd/wu ratio as when I started folding 144 points was a large WU.
I probably have a very low ppd/wu ratio as when I started folding 144 points was a large WU.
I've searched this thread and the previous one for that name, and it doesn't come up as a name - only in its usual form as part of a URL.
timtofly
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I have started foldingMy laptop is getting very hot!
The only one left since RedDoor would be this poster who announced starting to fold. There have only been two currently active folders since the "old" Red_Door account. It moved from position 134 to 136 as they passed that position. No one has actively folded enough to change it to 137.
Trader/warrior and I were already past that point, when RedDoor announced and then RedDoor and Civfanatics folders were the only ones moving up the list. Since Camikaze, (the one who I thought was still folding) said no, and unless it is someone who does not post in OT, it seems that user name does not come up on the list. I just found Camikaze on the list. I guess I never looked for it after I saw Civfanatics going up the list.
Blarg. Another chunk of power outage, another valley in PPD. Hopefully back on track today.
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I have noticed something interesting about my laptop. On full mode with the internet in use, the GPU is faster than the CPU. If I adjust down to medium, the GPU pauses and the CPU speeds up. When the internet is not in use, then at full both the GPU and CPU speed up.
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Well it folded fine for almost a month. Then it failed. It folded a couple of more times, and then failed. I finally upgraded to version 7.4.4, but the GPU refuses to fold any more. It never would give any bonus points either. Like I said above, the folding has been acting strange lately. I thought it may be because of the optimization between the GPU and the I7 intel GPU. I cannot find any where to change the optimization in the drivers though. When running the Nvidea GPU 555m, it should not effect the CPU slot should it? For some reason it slows it down.
schmiddi
Prussian
afaik, folding on the GPU also uses one core/thread/module/whatever, so it slows down CPU-folding.
But usually GPU-folding is much more productive.
But usually GPU-folding is much more productive.
Very late reply, I know. I've considered re-installing Windows, but in the end it's only really F@H and Visual Studio that I'm having issues with, and it's not really worth it for just that. I probably will re-install when I get a bigger SSD, but again, I don't really need that yet as my old SSD for OS + 2 TB 7200 RPM HDD for everything else is still more than satisfactory.
There is some dust on the heatsink. I have been considering upgrading to a third-party heatsink instead of the stock Intel one. But that hasn't been urgent, either, as I've never had anything else overheat this desktop. I'm also not sure quite how to detach the heatsink, as the clips that attach it to the motherboard seem pretty secure. I'm much more used to swapping CPUs on laptops than desktops. That probably would be less effort than reinstalling Windows.
In the meantime, I started doing some World Community Grid on my laptop again. Got a few weeks of runtime on it with its on-sometimes off-sometimes schedule. But given that it's summer now and that does generate excess heat, I'm probably going to leave it off until the fall, and then perhaps look at getting both that and F@H working again.
Blarg. Why my son-of-foldbeast always seems to wait for me to go on vacation before it develops a NIC issue is beyond me, but it is back online now, and so hopefully I'll be able to hold off Schmiddi for a bit longer. 
schmiddi
Prussian
Seriously: What's NIC?
Seriously: What's NIC?
Network Interface Card, or just network card.
Dunno, Naskra's contributions stopped a few months ago, and he dropped off the 'active' list a couple weeks back.
And thanks - my stay at the top is temporary, though, as Schmiddi will certainly be passing me soon.
schmiddi
Prussian
Depends on the output of the foldbeast - before its hickup, you were producing more than I
That was in good weather, too. When it gets sweaty out, I get miserly with the folding on my home PC because I don't like to have it fight with my air conditioning unit...
There you are!!! We were worried you'd wandered off for good!
Give chase, you know you want to. 
