There is a good possibility that lots of UD users need the throttle at 60% for one reason or another. To boost it back to 90% without warning them would not be very friendly.

This was a policy decision. WCG have to play safe, especially if they want to attract large corporate networks. The throttle setting prevents any claims that WCG reduces component lifespans or forces power saving modes.

I'd like to suggest an enhancement to the CPU Throttling tool: detection of whether or not a machine's clock speed is reduced. Then we could tell whether to be concerned or not about performance.

Also, could chip temperature also be displayed? Maybe that's chip- or motherboard- or whatever-dependent, in that case never mind.

Or maybe there are free tools out there somewhere that WCG could recommend so that we can check it all out for ourselves?

I'd rather not wear out my machines (at work AND at home) sooner if I didn't have to. And I would also like to contribute at the maximum I can.

Thanks!

Hi mcepek,

To add to Lawrence post, as far as UD agent throttle read out, it's already there in the Help Defeat Cancer Work Units Graphical screen of UD Agent. Am sure that as new versions of the projects are released, FAAH and HPF2 will also start to show this.

The answer to your prayers on the temperature monitoring side is in the posts titled "Useful Utilities" mentioned.... Speedfan. Been using it for years. Continuously reads out the CPU temperature and many others to include harddisk. It does what it does best, controlling the Speed of your system Fans. Sits in my systray and takes about 1 minute of CPU time a day, or less if u just leave it minimised. Hover over the icon and it reads out as many temps as your motherboard allows sensing or u want to see. Pictures telling stories, here a screenshot:



oops, running a bit hot this morning with fans on max......scirrocco arrived last night and airco not on.

It is a real problem for laptops. Many laptops (and desktops) respond to overheating by stepping down the CPU clock. This cools the chip, but slows down the entire computer - crunching and normal use alike. This is why corporations don't want their machines maxed out all the time.

Home computers, on the other hand, tend to be poorly maintained and quickly choke up with dust. This puts undue strain on the cooling system, and fan failure can cause systems to catastrophically overheat.

These are exceptional happenings, of course. But WCG have to allow for these possibilities, or a few toasted PCs will quickly lose them the goodwill they have worked so hard to gain. WCG don't want to damage anyone's computer whether they will be held responsible or not.

Crunch safe.