affinity changer

[Rudy Toody]

Recently, I changed my affinity from blonds to redheads

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: Insidious
It's not really that the affinity changer is not for AMD... it is that the affinity changer is for quad core PCs. At the moment, that means Intel, but not forever (hopefully).

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-Sid

technically its a four core box...lol

 

[GLeeM]

Originally posted by: Insidious
for Dual core machines, only run ONE instance of the SMP client (you need a minimum of 2 cores for each instance).

Hey Sid, I think "dual dual" is not a typo. His brand of mobo is Tyan. He has a 2+2=quad.

 

[Slider76]

I tested the Affinity changer on my X2 system last month. results as follows

Project 2653

4200+ 2.2ghz
with OUT affinity
29min 10 sec
With affinity
31min 00 sec

2.81ghz
with OUT affinity
23min 36sec
With affinity
26min 0sec

so yeah i agree with the forum link, affinity on AMD = no go.

 

[mooseracing]

I don't remember the times when I tried it before, never ran it more than an hour or two. But with affinity changer running I seemed to have more consistant timing per step, instead of variations.

Now that I am working full time my computer sits Idle more, so I might try a day or two run. I try to do the easy calculation of PPD using FAH mon but the program seems to think the FAH core is hung alot even though it is working fine.

edit: yes, Gleem. I have that issue alot of places when I mention it.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

just installed the Aff. Changer. when i double click "FahSmpAffinityChanger.exe to run the program i get an error saying that a windows service must be installed using "installutil.exe" where and how can i do this?

 

[Assimilator1]

I don't remember getting this anyone else?

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
Recently, I changed my affinity from blonds to redheads

Lol ,I like both & brunettes

 

[mooseracing]

Ok with an average taken from 11 steps each, on a 2653 project I am getting 19.3 minutes non Affinity changer, and with Affinity changer 19.5 mins per step.

I'm planning on taking and averaging it out over a complete project core also once I get that far. This is with Vista x64 Dual-dual core 2ghz optys.