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Originally Posted by Boom!NowUrBusto
I'm using the trial on the Td9d6h flop. I'm having trouble understanding if the amount of threads is just what the program uses because of my computer or if it's preset. It was at 4 threads, I changed it to 8 threads and solved a really simple flop that was 0.8 GB and it took 4.5 minutes.
If your computer's processor has 2 cores, then the settings will be defaulted at 4 threads. And if it has 4 cores it will default at 8 threads. So it's always 2x the number of cores. Typically you would expect that for one thread per core CPU usage would be 100%, but as it turns out, optimal performance will be around 2x the number of cores. Beyond the optimal value the performance will no longer increase, but will in fact (slowly) decrease.
From what I can tell, your computer's processor will most likely have two cores. The recommended number of cores for GTO+ is 4. You should however still get decent solving performance on most systems out of 2.
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Originally Posted by Boom!NowUrBusto
Can I bump it up to 16 threads? Just want to make sure it won't fry my computer Trying to see if my computer is good enough.
Your CPU can handle thousands of threads, so there really shouldn't be a problem there. There will however be no further increase in performance once CPU usage has reached 100%. The performance will in fact drop a tiny bit due to the CPU having to manage more heavy-performance threads.
Last edited by scylla; 11-21-2018 at 06:25 AM.