CPU Clocked at Max Clock While GPU Folding

[jiyeon]

Hi, so I'm trying to get back into Foldingn and so I set everything back up again.

 

As you can see below, my CPU is being pegged at 4.6GHz which is the overclokc I've set it to.

 

 

How would I go about not having my CPU pegged at max clock on all cores whenever I fold?

[jj9987]

High performance power plan coincidentally?

[jiyeon]

1 minute ago, jj9987 said:

High performance power plan coincidentally?

It's even maxing it on the other power plans.

[Stormseeker9]

2 minutes ago, seoz said:

It's even maxing it on the other power plans.

thats because you set that clock. Mine is set ast 41x so 4.1ghz at all times.

[jiyeon]

3 minutes ago, Stormseeker9 said:

thats because you set that clock. Mine is set ast 41x so 4.1ghz at all times.

Really? I could have sworn there was a way to not have it set to max clock at all times during Folding.

[Stormseeker9]

2 minutes ago, seoz said:

Really? I could have sworn there was a way to not have it set to max clock at all times during Folding.

Oh I have not a clue what folding is mate. I was just referring to your clockspeed always being at 4.6ghz (because you set that in the bios). 

 

Sorry for the mis-confusion

[.Apex.]

18 minutes ago, seoz said:

Really? I could have sworn there was a way to not have it set to max clock at all times during Folding.

when it's at idle does your clockspeed decrease?

[RollinLower]

27 minutes ago, seoz said:

Really? I could have sworn there was a way to not have it set to max clock at all times during Folding.

eventough you;re not folding on your CPU, the CPU is still feeding the GPU information. so it is actually still doing some work.

maybe that's why it went up in clocks?

[jiyeon]

10 minutes ago, syn2112 said:

when it's at idle does your clockspeed decrease?

No, it pegs at 4.6GHz like I said.

 

If I pause the Folding however, my CPU will then go down to 0.8GHz, its true idle speed.

[.Apex.]

Just now, seoz said:

No, it pegs at 4.6GHz like I said.

 

If I pause the Folding however, my CPU will then go down to 0.8GHz, its true idle speed.

that's what i asked, but anyway that's good, so you can go into your Power Plans, and choose the one you want or create a new one, and go into Advanced Power Settings for the selected power plan and set the Maximum Processor state and Minimum Processor State in the "Processor Power Management".

 

Maximum Processor State means you limit the clockspeed when it's under load.

[Mattias Edeslatt]

Is there a difference if you pot the "Folding Power"-slider on medium or low?

 

In your screenshot there seems to be roughly ~20-30% load on all cores so there is something that your CPU is told to do, probably as fast as possible, hence 4.6 GHz on all cores.

[Gorgon]

Your basically hooped. You would think you could use Process Lassoo or a similar program to bind folding to a specific CPU thread but the folding daemon that is run at boot doesn’t actually do the heavy lifting.

 

Each time you download a Work Unit (WU) you also download some C code with Assembler optimizations that is the actual Folding “core” and that runs the WU so you’d have to set the affinity for the Folding core and not the daemon.

 

I believe there is a way around this but I also recall that it is not recommended.