Very slow CPU folding.

[RKarim]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to start folding@home but my CPU is folding at a rate of 474 ppd. It is a RYZEN 7 1700x and should be doing about 90k ppd. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

[Acid Panda]

how well cooled is the CPU

[Shreyas1]

Temps?

Background processes?

 

Also, did you set the folding level at low?

[RKarim]

The folding level is at max, and my GPU is folding at about a million ppd, no background tasks, at most 5% background usage.

[RKarim]

Forgot to say, the temps max at 60 Celsius. I also was previously using this CPU a couple months ago and it was doing fine. Same cooling, and everything.

[Gorgon]

Are you using all threads, if so, you should leave 2 threads idle, one to keep the GPU fed and another to keep the OS responsive. When I used to CPU fold on 6 threads of my e3-1231v3 I was getting 30-50,000PPD on that at 3.4GHz so I’d expect a Zen Gen 1 should do better.

 

@Ben Quigley what should they expect from a 1700x?

[GOTSpectrum]

21 minutes ago, Gorgon said:

Are you using all threads, if so, you should leave 2 threads idle, one to keep the GPU fed and another to keep the OS responsive. When I used to CPU fold on 6 threads of my e3-1231v3 I was getting 30-50,000PPD on that at 3.4GHz so I’d expect a Zen Gen 1 should do better.

 

@Ben Quigley what should they expect from a 1700x?

In my experience 60-90k depending on clocks, cooling, number of threads being used and background processes.

[Ithanul]

20 hours ago, RKarim said:

Hi,

 

I'm trying to start folding@home but my CPU is folding at a rate of 474 ppd. It is a RYZEN 7 1700x and should be doing about 90k ppd. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

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[RKarim]

On 3/10/2019 at 7:30 PM, Gorgon said:

Are you using all threads, if so, you should leave 2 threads idle, one to keep the GPU fed and another to keep the OS responsive. When I used to CPU fold on 6 threads of my e3-1231v3 I was getting 30-50,000PPD on that at 3.4GHz so I’d expect a Zen Gen 1 should do better.

 

@Ben Quigley what should they expect from a 1700x?

How would I go about doing that? I'm using them all.

[Gorgon]

20 hours ago, RKarim said:

How would I go about doing that? I'm using them all.

In the Advanced Control Client go into the Configuration menu and go to the Slots tab, select the CPU slot and click the edit button, Change the number of threads from -1 (automatic) to the number of threads of the CPU less 1 thread for the OS and 1 per GPU.

 

So for a 1700x with 16 threads and one GPU set the threads to 14.