Have you checked your core temps? I've seen this sort of slowdown due to thermal throttling. Check for a fluff mat on top of the heat sink immediately under the fan blades.
I don't think that there is any problem with your CPU.
I have the same "problem" on my new iMac with core i7 processor.
The new WU's (S5GCE) have to crunch that long.
I have mentioned this in another thread, where I started the discussion about why the new S5GCE WUs do not pay the same amount of credit in relation to the time they need to crunch.
I still keep killing all S5GCE WUs as long as e@h isn't willing to change the credit/WU amount.
Have you checked your core temps? I've seen this sort of slowdown due to thermal throttling. Check for a fluff mat on top of the heat sink immediately under the fan blades.
It was cleaned out a couple of weeks ago and even then it didn't have much. Temps were around 43 degrees then. The 2 tasks before it took around 7 hours, so I suspect a dud wu.
Looking at my wingman on the 14 hour wu he did it a bit under half the time.
Given this isn't normal behaviour perhaps there is a problem with the wu in question. Or maybe the PC is playing up.
How are the ABPS files running? If they are stable as before, there is no doubt, the PC is ok. We all find longer runnings of the S5GCE files, depending upon the processor. At my oldish Athlon XP2800+ under WinXPP they are running about three times longer than the foregoing fileseries. At the beginning I became also worried as you.
Should a S5GCE take this long
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Have you checked your core temps? I've seen this sort of slowdown due to thermal throttling. Check for a fluff mat on top of the heat sink immediately under the fan blades.
Cheers,
Gary.
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@MarkJ
I don't think that there is any problem with your CPU.
I have the same "problem" on my new iMac with core i7 processor.
The new WU's (S5GCE) have to crunch that long.
I have mentioned this in another thread, where I started the discussion about why the new S5GCE WUs do not pay the same amount of credit in relation to the time they need to crunch.
I still keep killing all S5GCE WUs as long as e@h isn't willing to change the credit/WU amount.
Cheers,
Markus
RE: Have you checked your
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It was cleaned out a couple of weeks ago and even then it didn't have much. Temps were around 43 degrees then. The 2 tasks before it took around 7 hours, so I suspect a dud wu.
Looking at my wingman on the 14 hour wu he did it a bit under half the time.
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RE: Given this isn't normal
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How are the ABPS files running? If they are stable as before, there is no doubt, the PC is ok. We all find longer runnings of the S5GCE files, depending upon the processor. At my oldish Athlon XP2800+ under WinXPP they are running about three times longer than the foregoing fileseries. At the beginning I became also worried as you.
Lucky crunching!
Martin