(75% trick).Ī proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). This advice will need to be re-visited once Intel starts shipping higher end iGPU's because it is possible to run the AMD iGPU's without slowing down the whole system. This is usually how you make the AMD iGPU crunch faster. The only experiment I can suggest is if you have at least 4 cpu cores, disable 1 (75% in local Boinc Manager settings) and see if the whole system crunches faster. Basically the cpu processing times balloon. However, MOST of the time crunching on an intel iGPU slows production on the whole machine. Given that the Intel GPU is ~5x faster than a single CPU core, why would I not continue to use the Intel? Question on the Intel 630 GPU: The average work unit takes ~5 hours on one of my CPU cores, but only ~1 hour on the Intel GPU (and of course even less on the internal Radeon of ~15 minutes). Tom, thank you! I'll try this tonight when I get home and report back. BOINC grabs these and hands down a task for each of them, but naturally only one will work at a time, I got confused + worried and suspended BOINC usage on that system. and associated options, please?Īlso a second (not that important) problem arises, my other Macbook Pro is a 2018 one, with two built-in GPU, switched by the system itself normally between 'office' and 'graphics' usage. I seem to fail on setting it up properly, tried to find examples, but none show up for this specific setup. I am aware of the help page for cc_config.xml and set up one, trying to forbid the internal GPU to be used, but grant usage of eGPU. I managed to set the CPU cores nicely to prevent the fan to run havoc, but as soon as I grant GPU usage the client will run one unit on each of my GPUs. So now I want to donate time to BOINC when I leave my desk, but please not use my internal IRIS GPU. This separate eGPU is to spare me of the howling fan on my desk when I have to run Excessive graphics, and to prevent possible damage due to overheating, as the system panicked in past several times and went off with no notification. It is a Mid 2014 15 in., running in Sierra 10.12.6, it has a built-in INTEL Iris Pro (1536MB) and a separate eGPURadeon RX580 (detected by BOINC as: AMD Radeon HD Baffin Unknown Prototype Compute Engine (8192MB) ) in a case under my desk with its own power supply and mighty cooling fans which nicely warm my feet.

I'm proud owner of several Macbooks, and one has a rathe wicked setup. Hello - it seems I'm the first one to run into this problem, or other use different words to describe their problem and I'm not smart enough to find their Q & (possible) A.

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