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We encourage you to read the blog post, as it goes into far more detail than simple tech journalists like us feel comfortable doing, but we
and we encourage you to do the same
capabilitiesThis is good advice pretty much whenever, but if you're going to be seriously taxing your computer with something like
The easiest way to do this if you're on Windows 10, is hit Ctrl + Shift + ESC, which will bring up Task Manager
Once you're in there, click the arrow on the bottom right-hand corner of the window labeled "More details", then go over to the performance
of PC you're running by going to the Apple logo in the top left corner of your display, clicking it and selecting "About This Mac."
Unfortunately, Apple isn't exactly forthcoming with the exact specs if you're running macos High Sierra or earlier
disease, from 'Light' to 'Full'
If you are running on a laptop, or any other computer with a weaker CPU, we would advise against using the 'Full' preset when you're
Folding@Home)How to run Folding@HomeOnce you're comfortable running Folding@Home, getting it going is actually fairly easy
Go to the Folding@Home page and select 'Start folding'
downloads, and you should click that
open the downloaded file and follow the instructions on the screen
Windows 10, you should be able to see the Folding@Home icon in your system tray, which looks like a protein made of a bunch of different
When this is active in your system tray, it means that it's running
You can right click the icon to access various settings for the software, and even pause it if you're working on something particularly
two things we'd advise messing with at first
You should right click the icon, and select 'Web control'
From there, change the power slider to 'Medium' or 'Light' (unless you have sufficient cooling, which we'll go more into further on)
Also, unless you don't have any heavy-duty computing workloads to work on, you should go to the column called simply 'When' and set that to
Luckily, most processors these days have a ton of fail-safes in place to slow the CPU down when things get a little too warm, so you're not
periods of time can diminish the lifespan of your CPU, and that's something you should keep in mind
This is why we wouldn't advise laptop users to run Folding@Home on a laptop with the 'Full' performance preset at all times, simply because
you'll be up against that thermal limit for an extended period of time, and those temperatures can adversely affect other components in the
If you can keep your CPU under 80 degrees C under full load, you should feel totally comfortable running Folding@Home for extended periods
Unless you know you have that thermal headroom, it's probably for the best to avoid the 'Full' preset, just to preserve the longevity of
some blindingly powerful computer hardware, so we've been able to have our PC running Folding@Home pretty much non-stop
With an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, we can typically finish a project every 15 minutes with the performance setting on 'Full', without it really
contribute a lot to the cause
However, no matter what level of performance you have, you'll have to decide whether or not to have it running while you're actually
to run only when your computer is idle
To do this, right click the Folding@Home icon in your system tray, select "Web Control" and then it will open a browser window
Once you're there, you'll see a column that just says 'When'
your computer isn't working on other tasks
If your daily workload involves a lot fo computationally heavy tasks, this is what we'd advise
We'd only have it running while you work if you have a ton of performance headroom.And, even if you do have it running while you're working,
window called "FAHControl"
From there, click the 'Configure' button in the top left corner of the window
If you go over to the 'Advanced' tab, you'll be able to change the Folding Core Priority
take priority, so that your PC doesn't lose a ton of resources to Folding@Home while you're working
