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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... s-bad-luck http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/scien ... ealth&_r=1 Cancer is largely (about 67% :shock: ) due to chance, according to the result of a recent study which made the news in January. To what extent did Folding@Home contribute to the above s...

The failures could have been caused by overheating. Dust can build up on the heatsinks and fans and hinder the cooling process. Yesterday, I cleaned my PC after running FAH (SMP and GPU clients) on it for more than a year. Removed dust from the casing vents, fliter sponge at the front of casing, CP...

(Sorry for a late detailed reply) There appears to be a misunderstanding. The only thing you can be referring to is the doubling of shaders going from the Fermi architecture to the Kepler architecture. And why that did not double performance has been explained many times over. Google it so I don't h...

From an efficiency perspective, going for additional cores is generally a better bet than overclocking, as power consumption rises significantly as clockspeed increases over and above the band set by the manufacturers. CPU voltage increase raises power consumption significantly more than clockspeed...

Sounds like there's no need to worry about diminishing returns with increasing CPU thread count in FAH in the near future.

Generally, the atom count in SMP work units is increasing right?

A Pentium CPU with an unlocked multiplier
I never expected Intel to release a 'Pentium K' CPU.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pen ... ,3849.html

When overclocked, will this CPU become a low cost low power PPD champion in Folding@Home SMP?

I found this online article. It may explain why for GPUs, the doubling of Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) count does not always double performance.. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116561-the-death-of-cpu-scaling-from-one-core-to-many-and-why-were-still-stuck/2 Note the interesting illustration i...

Gigabyte GT430 back from RMA. Decided to run FAHBench on it :) The GT430 was overclocked to 797 MHz GPU, 926 MHz memory. (Default clocks are 730 MHz GPU, 900 MHz memory) Nvidia driver version WHQL 301.42. http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2013/12/29/GT430SP.jpg http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/...

I hope the results from Folding@Home can also be used to treat animal cancers.
One of my cats died from cancer

Want to share something. Tested versions 301.42, 320.49 and 327.23 (all are WHQL drivers) with Folding@Home benchmark 1.2.0. Ran the tests twice and took screenshots (but without CPU-Z nor CPU-Z screenshots). http://imageshack.us/a/img541/2356/wtl5.jpg 301.42 (older version) appears to be faster tha...

Thanks for the informative replies.

I'm not a new user but am curious to know how F@H sieves out completed WUs that are bad. There are computer users out there who push their CPU, RAM or GPU overclock a little too far, which can result in a WU being completed incorrectly. (Need not be overclockers but defective CPU, cache and RAM can ...

Is it possible for F@H to contribute some effort to curing diseases/cancers of not humans, but pets (domestic cats, dogs etc.)? I know human and animal diseases/cancers are different, but they both have things in common that F@H can help to cure right? Who knows, if F@H helps find a cure for an anim...

I'm using the SMP and GPU (Fermi) clients and know that GPU WUs have many more base points than CPU WUs. My question is: generally, how much more complex are GPU WUs than SMP WUs? 3 times? 10 times? 20 times? Do the number of base points (ignore the bonus points for SMP WUs) indicate the complexity ...

Thanks for the first two replies.

I would like to get more replies from folders who have experience in Win XP vs Win 7.