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Originally Posted by Charloz24 What I meant is that I didn't raise the Vcore (motherboard is EVGA classified) Right now if I look at CPU-Z it's 1.294V @ 4 ghz. Didn't really tried for more, because 75C core temp is enough I think. |
That's pretty good. EVGA's boards do have a habit of really counteracting VDroop with adding a bit more voltage under load. Still good.
You will lose more PPD running 7 cores and using Bill's process manager to allocate all your GPU clients to one core (core 7 if numbering from 0 to 7).
I have an i7 920 @ 4.0ghz as well folding BigAdv with three GPUs on it, and TPF (time per frames)went up by about 1.5 minutes vs. no GPUs. I only use WinAFC to set them to "normal" priority, and not allocate them to a certain core. When I tried -smp 7 my TPF went up by about 4 minutes, which means a lot less bonus. Either way the GPU clients didn't seem to lose anything in terms of performance.
Try it with -smp 8 and no process management, and then go from there. The VMWare Player runs under normal priority, and the GPU clients under low, which means they shouldn't interfere much with it.