Does folding power impact a fixed threads CPU slot?

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Does folding power impact a fixed threads CPU slot?

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I'm using a default configuration for my CPU slot (-1). When you set a fixed number of threads instead, I gather whatever the folding power you will always be using that set number of threads. What would the folding power change in that case? Frequency or nothing at all?
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Re: Does folding power impact a fixed threads CPU slot?

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Light power would still set gpu to fold on idle and turn on pause on battery for laptops I think.
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Re: Does folding power impact a fixed threads CPU slot?

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I believe that from V7.6.9 onward, the behavior has changed (https://foldingathome.org/faqs/fah-v7/v ... er-slider/):
Light - 50% of CPUs folding with no GPU folding (even on idle)
Medium - 75% of CPUs folding with GPU folding
Full - 100% of CPUs* folding with GPU folding

*CPU will be N-X where N is the total CPUs and X is the total GPUs.
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Re: Does folding power impact a fixed threads CPU slot?

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I don't know that there has been any change in 7.6.9 for the slider, I have not seen change at all. In any case, that page has been inaccurate since the last person edited 2-3 years ago. It was simplified from the original description, and whoever did the edits got parts of that wrong.

Light - 50%

Medium - one less than the maximum available number of CPU threads

Full - all available CPU threads after reducing by one for each GPU.
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