Hi Ernst,
I use throttle all the time for the same reason you do.
I'm not an expert on P95 but here are a few things to check, some of
them maybe too obvious, if so sorry:
- Are you modifying the prime.ini in the correct directory?
On my computers it is in "C:\Program Files\Prime95\..."
- I wonder if you need to have the secret password turned
on? To do this:
- Start P95, open the runtime window. You
do this by left clicking again on the P95 icon. The runtime window is the
window that shows iteration time, completion percents etc.
- Go to the pull down tab "Advanced" and
select password. The password is in the readme file, it is four simple
digits, you'll know them when you see them.
- I know a Hyperthreaded (HT) machine can do strange things
to the throttle. Are you running a HT machine?
Anyway, I use throttle on laptops, all the time because P95 runs
them a little too hot for me, like "Throttle = 100".
I also use "Throttle = 3" on desktops (towers) to allow the
processor to do back ground jobs; it just seems to work better.
Here are the modifications I've made to my prime.ini. This is a laptop
example:
BootDelay=300 //
SequentialWorkToDo=0 //
OnlyRunStage2WithMaxMemory=1 //
Throttle=75 //
TimingOutput=4 //
Doing this can slow down processing by 50% or more depending upon
the machine you have and the number you are running.
Hopefully, this helps, let me know what you find.
I have a question. Does Throttle work while factoring?
Happy Hunting! Nuke
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ernst Madsen
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Prime] Does prime.ini parameter Throttle work?
Hi
Has anybody tried using prime.ini parameter "Throttle"?
Some time ago I got a new computer at work. It's a laptop and the fan is
very noisy, so I thought of something like the Throttle parameter to make
prime95 take it easier.
The description says it takes a pause of the mentioned number of
milliseconds every iteration. So I started at 10 and gradually increased it
as long as it kept triggering the fan. By now I'm at 8000000 ms = 8000 sec.
= 2+ hours.
This can't possibly be true!
It's in undoc.txt, which as it says means that it might have been
removed...so has it?
Regards,
Ernst Madsen.
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