Re: The Prospective Folder Guide
G'day Liquid81, welcome. Great to have you onboard for such a worthy cause.
My wife is the one who sets our computers up and has the (full) knowledge. We run mostly Intels, using HyperThreading.
Sally (the Handbrake) has set up 2 instances on each machine. 1 x GUI and 1 x Console. ID machine 1 and machine 2. As all they do is fold, there is nothing else to do but wait for the points to tally up. All full steam ahead. HyperThreading does NOT give you twice the points, however there is an increase % wise by doing 2 WU's.
The only time they will run less than full noise if a setting has been changed from 100% to say 70%. I would expect a normal installation will have them going as hard as they can, only slowing down somewhat through normal computer use, like me posting on the forum and surfing.
My AMD64 has 1 instance only as they don't HyperThread, however it does Work Units in pretty quick time.
Also more ram helps to get the BIG ones. Especially the newer ones as they tend to give bonus points. Just checked one of Sally's machines. It's a 3.2Gig, HyperThreading, 2x515 Meg ram, running at 3608Mhz. Must have raised the FSB. More power, more WU's.
Any questions at all, there are some very experienced people here. Folding, computers, you name it, there is help.
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LD on.
Jon