How to get High Value Folding Units

[Psymonkee]

Well, I have been doing quite well for a while with large units, but recently I am only getting 39 - 41 point units. My machine is dual core so at least I get through 2 units at Once.

Now, my wife is using an Athlon XP2200 machine her machine reliably comes up with 240 point units and chugs away with these. The annoying part is the my son, (dual core Opteron) agreed to start running uints as well. In the last couple of weeks he has always had 2 x 240 point units and the results have been pretty good for the team.

Before anyone else asks, I carefully read the guides and done all the things in there including the registry edit for -advmethods. So, any thing I can do to improve things or is it just a lottery as to which units one gets?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

 

[rich99million]

It just always seems to be the way I'm afraid - extrememly annoying when you can't seem to get anything but piddly WUs especially on the most capable machine

I would try it without -advmethods or even switch to deadlineless work for one WU then change it back to try and break the cycle

until the QMDs come back there are a lot of powerful machines fighting over not enough decently big WUs

hope you get some better luck soon

 

[diogenese]

I've found that too, you seem to get stuck on one server so you only get similar woos all the time, great if it's high scorers but irritating when all you get is midget ones! I've tried unpluging from my router for a bit but that doesn't work, maybe rich's idea will do the trick.
Good hunting

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If ever I'm unhappy with the WUs I seem to be pling I just go through and change a setting or two. I'll disable BIGPACKETS or -advmethods just to see what I can pull. With some AMDs, especially Athlon XPs, you'll find that Tinker core WUs get better ppd than Gromacs. If you find that that is the case set your machine to recieve deadlineless WUs, most of which are Tinkers. Then watch it a bit to see if your ppd improves or not.