What does this mean?

[WillFromGA]

What does the CPU: 3 mean and the GPU:0 mean?

 

 

[Enderman]

CPU3 is the 4th core of your CPU

The rest of the cores are 0, 1, 2, and finally 3 (unless you have more than 4 cores)

 

GPU0 is your first GPU

if you have more in SLI or CFX then you might have GPU1 or GPU2 too

[Oshino Shinobu]

It's basically the ID of which core or GPU it's using. So CPU 3 is the 4th core (0,1,2,3 - Not 1,2,3,4) and the GPU is the first one. 

[WillFromGA]

CPU3 is the 4th core of your CPU

The rest of the cores are 0, 1, 2, and finally 3 (unless you have more than 4 cores)

 

GPU0 is your first GPU

if you have more in SLI or CFX then you might have GPU1 or GPU2 too

 

 

It's basically the ID of which core or GPU it's using. So CPU 3 is the 4th core (0,1,2,3 - Not 1,2,3,4) and the GPU is the first one. 

Is there a way to use all cores or just one of them?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Is there a way to use all cores or just one of them?

You might have to play around with the settings. 

 

I just use my GPUs when folding, so I'm not familiar with the CPU side of things. 

[Enderman]

Is there a way to use all cores or just one of them?

Your PC uses as many cores as it needs to use.

It seems like that program you are using to monitor your CPU usage is only looking at one core though, even if they are all being used.

[Wano97]

Is there a way to use all cores or just one of them?

It already uses 3-4 cores by default

[WillFromGA]

Your PC uses as many cores as it needs to use.

It seems like that program you are using to monitor your CPU usage is only looking at one core though, even if they are all being used.

 Okay, I was thinking that it just limited its work to just one core.

[tobben]

as far as i know folding starts counting cores at 1,  it doesn't say a number value to what specific core you are folding on, it give you the number of core(S) you are using, so 3 isn't THE 3'rd core but rather 1-3. It will leave a core free if it detects  a gpu like your gtx 660. Some gpu projects require a cpu core. so  4 - 1 = 3

 

if you go into the advanced client < configure < slots, < select the cpu slot and click edit. You should see it being set to -1, this means that you let the client itself decide how many threads it should use. It's probably better to think of it as threads instead of cores, a 4770k paired with a gpu would show 7 due to hyper threading. It has 4 cores but 8 threads, or "perceived cores".

 

@Whaler_99 

[Whaler_99]

CPU:3 means it is using three cores for the calculations. You can change this. 

 

You have to go into the Advanced view, Configure and edit the CPU slot. By default, it show -1 (let the program select). Simply put in the number of cores you want to use. Remember, HT counts as individual cores as well. So, since it picked three, I assume you have a 4 core CPU without HT. So, you can change that to 4 to use all the cores.

 

But, when folding with the GPU as well, it is always good to leave on CPU core free.

[Whaler_99]

ninja'ed

[WillFromGA]

as far as i know folding starts counting cores at 1,  it doesn't say a number value to what specific core you are folding on, it give you the number of core(S) you are using, so 3 isn't THE 3'rd core but rather 1-3. It will leave a core free if it detects  a gpu like your gtx 660. Some gpu projects require a cpu core. so  4 - 1 = 3

 

if you go into the advanced client < configure < slots, < select the cpu slot and click edit. You should see it being set to -1, this means that you let the client itself decide how many threads it should use. It's probably better to think of it as threads instead of cores, a 4770k paired with a gpu would show 7 due to hyper threading. It has 4 cores but 8 threads, or "perceived cores".

 

@Whaler_99 

 

 

CPU:3 means it is using three cores for the calculations. You can change this. 

 

You have to go into the Advanced view, Configure and edit the CPU slot. By default, it show -1 (let the program select). Simply put in the number of cores you want to use. Remember, HT counts as individual cores as well. So, since it picked three, I assume you have a 4 core CPU without HT. So, you can change that to 4 to use all the cores.

 

But, when folding with the GPU as well, it is always good to leave on CPU core free.

Thank you guys