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Old September 3, 2010, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by 3.0charlie View Post
Totally normal. Your gpu client is stealing cpu cycles. As you mentionned, use prifinitty to lower the gpu client priority or use a single cpu core for the gpu client.
Damn you beat me to it.

I'm starting to notice that this sorta PPD "problem" only seems to affect people with Core i7 that have 8 threads doing SMP/bigadv folding. I haven't noticed such a problem when I had my Core 2 Duo and with my Phenom II X4 doing SMP folding.
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