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Hi there,

I've been running FAH (v6.34 as a service) for quite a while now (on my SMP desktop, on my (old) 2 core 2 clients laptop and on my (new) SMP laptop). I want to switch to passkey but was wondering if it could be troublesome if I switch one PC to passkey while the other one is running without. Do I have to disable the FAH service on one (or both ?) to switch to passkey ? (Well I think yes).

Another thing : my W7 x64 desktop is i7-860 + 8Gb + nVidia GTX260. Is it better to run CPU SMP v6.34 FAH as a service or to use FAH v7 instead ?

Same question for my (new) W7 x64 i7-3630qm + Intel® HD Graphics 4000 + Optimus nVidia GT635M + 16Gb laptop. Even with 100% speed (2.4GHz), hottest core doesn't go beyond 90°C (194°F) in these hot summer days and power drain in 70W, OK for me. Which profile should I use with v7 ? Can I set my own profile (hard on CPU, medium or light on GPU) ?

Thanks,
Etienne

Hello Etienne_74, welcome to the forum.

Yes on passkey. It adds a level of security to protect your points, and it enables the quick return bonus after completing 10 WUs with the passkey. Bonus points are always welcomed.

Get a passkey. Stop the fah service in Windows services. Run the fah client from a command line with the -configonly and -smp switches. Add the passkey when prompted in the advanced section. Restart the fah service.

http://folding.stanford.edu/home/faq/faq-passkey/

http://fahwiki.net/index.php/How_do_I_r ... options%3F

To answer your other Q's:

The v7 client can be run as a service too for CPU-only under W7. In general, V7 is better than v6 in that it will give you access to more WS's and thereby less likely to run out of appropiate WU's.

For your notebook, the best profile to use is one that does not interfere with your usage. In general that would be power = medium (the default) but if you have a dedicated folding machine then Full is best. You can however explicitly specify the number of cores to be used for the CPU slot and that should override the power slider setting for the CPU slot (until you get to idle/light idle and then the CPU will only run if it detects that you are not using the machine like a screensaver or Off where it doesn't run at all) and then the power slider effectively only controls the GPU slot(s)