Time to complete a frame bounces all over the place.

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited September 2006 in Folding@Home
I have an older computer doing some folding for me. It's got a Biostar M7VKQ motherboard that would take my 2 512 MB PC133 RAM sticks, and I pulled out the Duron 1000 and put in an Athlon MP1600 CPU for folding.

It's running the 5.03 graphical version on Windows 2000 Pro.

It works fine, but I notice the time per frame numbers varying a lot. 3 minutes, 4, 5, 8, etc. All in the same work unit.

Current work unit is a p1808_Collagen_Brods (end of the title) Amber core.

Is that normal, or is it just this computer? My main system doesn't jump the time per frame around like that.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Are you working on your PC while it's folding?
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    No, it just sits and folds. It has an ethernet cable hooked up all the time.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Possible causes:

    - Something is running in the background
    - Your CPU is overheating and throttling (but then, motherboards of that era did not have throttling mechanisms in the BIOS, I think...?)
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    I looked in task manager, and the only thing using any significant CPU power (99%), is FAH82.

    There's a total of 18 processes running. I didn't install much on the computer aside from what was needed for folding. I have Ad-Aware SE on it, so I'll run a scan and see what it finds.
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