Hello, all!
I have a couple of questions for the smarter folks out there. As you may have ascertained by looking at my signature, I'm an old-school folder with an old-school desktop computer doing the heavy lifting. My main rig is crying out for an upgrade, but there is no cash available for such things. I do, however, have a pretty stout laptop that specs out very well by comparison. Curious about how this laptop would do, I gave it a go.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15-7559 with a 7th generation Intel Skylake Core i7-6700HQ @2.60 GHz, 16 GB of Crucial PC3-12800, an Nvidia GTX960M, and Windows 10 pro x64. I would have thought that this thing would scream with its 8 threads and all of those CUDA cores, easily out-folding my main rig like it was sitting idle. The reality... well, not so much.
The one thing I've always tried to do is keep a powerful, top-tier graphics card in my main rig, but it is a modest build even when it was new and the technology was current. Now the processor, motherboard and graphics card are sorely in need of an update.
This is a screenshot taken just a few minutes ago from my main rig:
The next image is of the laptop. Bear in mind that I had shut down the CPU client because the temps were in excess of 100c and was producing less than 8000 PPD.
What is going on here? I set both of these clients up using the simplest method possible, since I haven't optimized a client in over three years. I can't imagine what could have been set up wrong enough to explain this. Help?
post edited by ionizd1 - 2017/05/14 11:59:03
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