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Would a high core count CPU be beneficial in F@H?

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So would those old grandma FX CPUs be better at folding, or low count cores, that are stronger are better?

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The higher end hardware the better F@H results

 

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AMD has no throttling IME. It is dangerous to run this on "full" without a monitor for thermals, or personal supervision. AMD APUs and dedicated CPUs are for thoroughly-cooled gaming rigs, not mathing rigs, as such as are folding optimized PCs...

Now, that said, # of cores mean nothing. It is throughput that matters. How much work each SPU core does is what gets you points. Remember, you are working on rendering many thousands of chemical reactions a second.

An 8-core Sandy Bridge-E would barely keep up with a 4-core Haswell Refresh at similar frequencies due to higher transistor density (power efficiency factored).

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