GIBA,

you mean like this?




performance (its stock atm and we'd love to OC the bloody thing)








as for cooling:



So we are just stumped

Edit: added the performance frames
Edit 2: added the CPUZ shots

Didactylos,

Ok, we'll let it run for a while and see if it sorts itself out.

We appreciate eveyones help since we can't seem to sort this mess out.

(BTW, when we put this system together, we bought a CPU fan that pushed about 190 CFM; Of course the bloody thing was as loud as a jet engine so we had to shut down the system until we got another CPU fan. This one pushes about 114-120 CFM and is at least something we can have in the house!)

we're sure we'll be using Arnold Schwarzenegger's line of, "I'll be back" before long!

This was the very 1st thing we changed:



We got tired of wandering away and returning to find the system had decided it needed a coffee break and a siesta

I'm impressed with the temps. My quad runs 55C all the time at 100% (room 28C) and 38C when idle.

Nothing adds up though. Now I remember an interview with this Mark guy of Sysinternals... W7 would manage to move all idle processes onto a single core, so the CPU would start using less energy on the others, kind of a partial sleep mode, but your TM shows clearly 8 process threads at near 100%

Anyway 14 hours CPU time reported and 50% is not right for FAAH. Presume you see actual progress on a continuous basis, not that they're stuck in a loop?

How about fetching / switching project temporarily such as HCMD2, not Autodock based and suspend the FAAH jobs temporarily? These have a base 4 CPU hour limit, regardless of CPU speed. Same with RICE, these are 7 hour limited. If the credit gets poor you know it was slow.

Ah yes and a little tool called Process Lasso. With that you can automatically increase the priority. For now increase to science priority to normal and see what happens. Doubt anything as they're internally coded to act as an idle process.

Sort of random thoughts.

Great settings and don't appear for me that you have issues here...

Just some more suggestions, based on my experience, to improve a little bit more your performance and pontuation with returned results when all be in smooth mode with this machine (remember that I am thinking that this machine is dedicated to WCG, on the contrary forget about it):

In the Processor parameter, set to YES when using batteries, if you have a no break.

In the Graphics parameter, set to at minimum 3 frames per second and 2% of cpu (it is the default setting of WCG and works very good without interferences in a strong config like youis).

In Memory usage parameters, I would like to suggest you set all to 100%, once anyone WU in WCG until now are memory eater, on the contrary, and probably with your strong config you will not note any difference, except if you will use this machine for some memory intensive application, and probably WCG WU's will "consume" maybe at most 2 GB in peak mode, and usually two times less in normal mode, considering your total physical memory.

In Network Parameter, set to maximum download and upload rates that you have from your broadband conexion provider.

In Disk parameter, set to maximum of your HDD have, once WCG use a very small part of your HDD as you can see in your BOINC Manager, in the DISK tab.

The last tip but not least, and I don't have sure if it really have impact with performance, but works very well for me, is:

In the BOINC Manager, click on ACTIVITY option on the menu bar at the top. Select RUN ALWAYS and Select NETWORK ACTIVITYALWAYS AVAILABLE (if apropriate with your conexion reality and machine usage).

So, as mentioned by Moonian, click on ADVANCED option in the menu bar, and just to have sure that you are using yours profile settings, click on PREFERENCES, and at right side on ther top, click on CLEAR and click on YES in the popup.

Just to mention, I guess that I7 dedicated machines, cruching actual FAAH WU don't spend more than 4-5 hours to complete the processing.

Hope that with a little bit more time, as Didactylos mentioned, all became smooth and this machine came to the right way of crunch.