Welcome dsio !!

LP · #1 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 06:45 AM

Welcome to the team!

Nice to have you with us.

dsio · #2 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 07:59 AM

Thank you ma'am.

I must say I have had my feelings hurt by this thing's benchmarking display saying my 2.6Ghz Athlon 64 machine is 76% as good as a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz machine.

I have it on 1 laptop, and intend to put it on the other lappy, and 3 or 4 desktops, but does it do the disable when on battery option for laptops that F@H does?

dsio · #3 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 08:02 AM

Also, is their a way to throttle the program's CPU usage like in folding?

I have this 1.6Ghz Centrino sitting on my lap at the moment, and the lap is getting a bit on the toasty side. I would like to bring it down to a more reasonable level, and not burn up my chances of having children.

LP · #4 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by dsio

does it do the disable when on battery option for laptops that F@H does?

The Boinc version does, under My Grid, Device Manager, Device Profile, Default (for the Boinc profile), Processor Usage- Do work while computer is running on batteries? yes or no

LP · #5 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by dsio

Also, is their a way to throttle the program's CPU usage like in folding?

I found this-

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I was worried about the same thing, hurting the CPU. The fan was running a lot. I have an IBM think pad, and finally remembered that you can set the power usage scheme. There is something on this scheme that allows you to choose the cpu speed. You can set it to either maximum, medium, slow, or very slow. When I set it to slow, the fan cut off, so it was not getting as hot. So it did make a difference. Maybe medium is enough though, I don't know.

On mine, to get to this screen, you just double click on the battery at the lower right of the screen, and the power usage screen pops up, allowing you to choose a new power usage scheme, or create a new one. Maybe your laptop has a similar feature

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this thread.
Hope that helps.

Daniel ~ · #6 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 09:28 PM

Great to see you here dsio!

cadaveca · #7 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dsio

I must say I have had my feelings hurt by this thing's benchmarking display saying my 2.6Ghz Athlon 64 machine is 76% as good as a Pentium 4 1.5Ghz machine.

Just putting you in your place right from the start.

I'm sorry, but i just couldn't help myself. I got 234/100.

LP · #8 (**permalink**) 10th January, 2006, 03:52 AM

Oh, on benchmarking, the first run is never right. After it sends in that first wu, it will bench again and be mo' better.

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