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Maybe you could have a look at the performance/power plans of your laptop? All modern CPUs come standard with some boost function enabled that makes them run faster and hotter. Disable it will cool them down and wear them less, without any performance penalty but for very intensive tasks (such as g...

Maybe your configuration can be tweaked to help that situation, We can make suggestions. ... but we'd have to see the first couple hundred lines of FAH's log so we understand your configuration. See the sig block of my first post above. Better than logs, take a look at this screenshot: https://i.ib...

Thank you all for your responses.

It's sad but if I'm not actually contributing (or even worse, delaying the project), I think I'll stop folding for a while, at least after summer ends, as this laptop gets too hot while folding even with a single core.

Cheers!

Thanks! That would be great. How can I do that?

And yes, it is slow... But do you think it is totally useless, or as long as it finish the tasks before the expiration date, it could be somehow useful?

Hello there. Currently I'm folding on a company laptop, which I only use around 8 hours a day, M-F. I've configured it to use just 1 CPU thread in order to not disturb my job. The problem is, the WU I'm being assigned are usually just 1 day deadline, but it takes me about 2-3 days to complete them. ...