by JimboPalmer » Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:08 pm
[I am just a user, like yourself: I need to own 6 laptops (my Theatre front office laptops need Win 7 or newer, while my BBQ back office laptops can't run anything newer than Win XP) My one desktop generates 3/4 of my points.]
So to use a core as old as a4 (which supports any CPU newer than a Pentium 3) you need to have sysvcall = native, but that involves a reboot of Linux. Some of your boxes won't be usable for 100 days. Do you normally reboot between workloads?
F@H does not allow us to choose between a4 and a7, (a much newer core) because if they did, almost everyone would hog a7 as they get more points. No new research is being started using a4, but some research takes years, so some existing research will continue to use a4.
Unrelated, and as an aside, on the node you show you have 12 threads, F@H detects an outdated GPU you are not using, and lowers that to 11. 11 is a 'large' prime number, so it then lowers to 10. All to support a GPU you are not using. If you hard code your CPU Slot configuration to 12 (from -1 which means automatic), you would get a minor bump in points.