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The temperature sounds reasonable if you installed the client and left it at the default settings. By default the FAH client uses half the available CPU cores when installed on a laptop, that shows as setting of Light. Also by default, the client is set to run at the lowest priority. So other progr...

@DiamondLight: It looks like folding is not using your GPU. If you want use your GPU you could get much more folding points. But then you have to pause the client when you play games and disable internet browser video hw acceleration. Yeah I have my settings set to light just so while I'm doing oth...

Hello, I'm just wondering what a healthy temperature my CPU should be running while using Folding@Home. At the moment I'm using my Alienware 17 laptop and as I type this, the program is running in the background. Currently my CPU's temperatures are averaging 75'C/167'F with a maximum temperature bef...

Hello everyone, I'm just wondering if it's normal for a "fold" to take ~7 hours for my GPU to complete? Whereas it's taking roughly ~2.5 hours for my CPU to complete a different "fold". I'm using a laptop, and my specs are as follows: CPU: Intel i7 4710MQ @2.5GHz GPU: AMD Radeon ...