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TThrottle allows the BOINC client to use a non standard port.

Go to the BOINC tab and fill the port the client is using after: On port(s) 31436 (example)

Or running multiple BOINC clients on the same localhost.

Go to the BOINC tab and fill the ports the clients are using after: On port(s) 31416;31426;31436 (3 clients in this example)

Add: Graph now stored on disk.
Changed: Graph: 1 day -> 1-7 Days.
Changed: Exit menu item hidden, while busy reading the temperature graph back from file.
Changed: *.log file now uses UNICODE.
Changed: Delete any files in the log folder after 30 days.
Changed: The logging in debug mode, now logs PID and child PID.
Changed: If the connection with the BOINC client is lost, delete and rebuild connection.
Changed: Now detects VBoxHeadless as a vbox application.
Fixed: Failed to read tthrottle.xml.
Fixed: Writing to *.log sometimes failed.
Fixed: Always exclude boinc.exe as the parent of  a child process.

Changed: Below W7 uses driver V 2.4 (WDF V1.5).
Changed: Installdriver V 1.41, some cosmetic changes.

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Add: Startup log: TThrottle Startup.log.
Add: Dump file cleanup after 14 days.
Add: Limit the number of crashes to 20 / 12 hours.
Changed: Resizable dialogs.
Changed: Installer V 1.40, driver CoInstaller V 1.9
Changed: Driver V 2.5, log processors/group.
Changed: New xml parser.
Changed: All xml files are now in Unicode.
Changed: Uses language files (ttlang), instead of language dll's.
Fixed: Crashed when there were no tasks.

7.002

Fixed: Failed to install the driver on versions below Windows 7.

Add: Supports multiple BOINC clients on localhost.
Changed: Redesigned program list.
Fixed: Sometimes failed to throttle in driver mode (Vista and up), with more than 10 processes.

Add: A child process now shows run %. 
Add: Temperature offset in Expert dialog. Set to 15C on AMD 15h Family. 
Fixed: If the run% can't be read, assume 100%, until now a value of -1 was used.

Add: Dutch version Seti.nl logo and link.
Fixed: The set GPU temperature didn't switch correctly between C and F.
Fixed: The graph on systems without a GPU, gray Cpu% and Max.

It Supports all mobile browser versions.

Tested on:

Safari, Firefox, Chrome and IE 10

It doesn't support IE below version 10.

To enable the work regulator in V 1.43 and up:

The work regulator will not allow you to get MORE work than you would normally get. It's purpose is the maximize the amount or work.

Add a file called config.xml (found in examples)
And add:

   <regulator>
      <max_tasks>              5000   </max_tasks>
      <days_work_requested>    10   </days_work_requested>
   </regulator>

MAKE SURE: To save the file as ANSI.

max_tasks is the max amount of work you like to get.
days_work_requested is the work buffer that corresponds to 5000 work units.

5000 and 10 are just examples and have to be adjusted to reflect the values needed on your system.

If the computer is not used or a program is NOT running the temperatures in tab "Programs" are used.

Checks for user input:

Preference -> Check "If the computer is not used for"

Checks if a program is running:

"Or the following programs are NOT running:"  mfc.exe;vrl.exe

Use a ; to separate the exe. It may take up to 60 seconds for the program to be detected.

If you enter a program name set the in use time at at least 120 seconds.

Core: Temperature in Celsius.
Gpu: Temperature in Celsius. You may set individual GPU's, like: 80;70;65;82

- Add: Treat as in use when specific programs are running. Makes it possible to throttle differently when a program is running.

Fixed: Sometimes failed to throttle, within a minute at startup. Now shows xx1,xx2,xxx for detecting idle processes. At point xxx the process is no longer throttled.

-Add: Second graph. To allow showing e.g. CPU and GPU separately.
-Add: Hot keys for the graphs and the main TThrottle dialog.

- Add: GPU activity bar.
- Changed: Additional ATI GPU logging.

Cards are compared with this program: eFMer Seti Performance

CPU

Cpu	Sec/Wu
I7 8Threads	355	64Bit system, AK_v8b2_win_SSE2

x41zg

Card	Sec/Wu
GTX590	52	64Bit system, 32 bit cuda 5.0, 314.22
GTX480	89	64Bit system, 32 bit cuda 5.0, 314.22
GTX680	89	64Bit system, 32 bit cuda 5.0, 314.22 (GTX 770)

X41z

Card	Sec/Wu
GTX645	273	64Bit system, 32 bit cuda 5.0, 326.6 (zc count 0.5)
GTX650	175	(x41zc_cuda50) count 0.5  Ti SSC EVGA Core cl +60, Mem cl + 400)
GTX460	133
GTX660Ti	121
GTX560Ti	117
GTX570	107
GTX670	105
GTX670	91	Oc +80/+300
GTX480	89
GTX770	82	64Bit system, 32 bit cuda 5.0, 326.6 (zc count 0.25)	Rebranded GTX 680 with higher clock and better cooling
GTX680	75	Cuda 5
GTX590	53	Cuda 42 (count 0.25)
GTX690	44

X41g

Card	Sec/Wu
GT230M	818
GT525M	661
GT630	406
8800 ultra	300	612/1100
GTX460	182
GTX460	158	Oc
GTX660Ti	158
GTX560	150
GTX560Ti	133	Oc 1760/880/2100
GTX295	130
GTX670	129
GTX680	118	Oc 1111/3004 (301.42)
GTX680	113	Oc 1215/3105 (301.42)
GTX570	109
GTX680	107
GTX480	100
GTX570	97	EVGA Classified Overclocked[/td
GTX580	80	Oc 1645/822/2138[/td
GTX690	58
GTX690	52	Oc Bc1006 Bc1072[/td
GTX590	53

The reason the GTX 590 doesn't improve is a temperature issue, the card clocks down, when to hot and goes back to the original clock when cooled down enough.
That's the reason the z version doesn't improve the runtime.

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-Add: Portuguese / Brazilian.
-Add: ATI GPU xml setting: <ati_not_active> set to 1 will include cards that are not active.

A Tool to test the best multiple instances of a GPU task.
In other words the setting in <count>, like 1, 0.5, 0.33, 0.25.

This tool finds the best setting automatically.

Useful for NVIDIA  Gpu's in the 4xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx series.
Make sure you read the instructions first.
A lot of additional info can be found in config.xml

Download SETI Performance version 1.8

Compare the results with others: Gpu list

Pitfalls:

Place the files in this zip file to a temp location.
Some users use: C:\Program Files, but this may not work for you.
C:\Program Files is a restricted folder, so you need full access rights to the folder you put the files in.

In the config.xml all spaces are striped away, to use spaces use %20
To get x41z cuda 32 use x41z%20cuda%2032

Together with the exe you NEED to supply a workunit named: work_unit.sah.
This isn't needed when you check "Use all xx workunits" in that case the workunits are copied from the folder: workunits.

SetiPerformance64.exe is for 64 bit systems.
SetiPerformance.exe is for 32 and 64 bit systems.

Progress indicator:

If you need a progress indicator add the supplied file: init_data.xml
The checkpoint time is the progress indicator update frequency.

Logging:

Loggings are placed in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\eFMer\SetiPerformance\log
SetiPerformance.log : Startup info.
result.log : A copy of the logging displayed in the dialog.

Now that you ran the test:

Now that I found out that a count of 2 (0.5) is the best setting, what now?

Install this one: Lunatics installer
Make sure you have the minimum driver mentioned in the installer and choose the 32 or 64 bit version.
Next go here: C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu
Open app_info.xml with notepad.exe.

Look for these 2 lines together:
<type>CUDA</type>
<count>1</count>

Change the 1 in count into 0.33 or 0.5
Make sure you use a dot . after the 0! NOT a ,

Version:

V 1.4
Add log file, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\eFMer\SetiPerformance\log
Keep case in name, like: MB6_win_x86_SSE3_OpenCL_ATi_HD5_r390
Added: progress indicator, needs init_data.xml. This works for MB and AP.
The window position wasn't always stored.
Some small bug fixes.

V 1.5
In the logging file line ends where \r\r\n now \r\n.
ERROR: Unable to copy from: didn't show the actual file it failed to copy, now shows: ERROR: Unable to copy file:.
Devices, Count now drop down boxes.
Added: Max count drop down box.
Fixed: Progress indicator dropped back to 0.

V 1.6
The automatic test goes one beyond the Max drop down box setting.
The drop down boxes Devices, Count and Max are now disabled, while testing.
The progress indicator didn't work correctly with AP tasks.

V1.7
Didn't automatically stop when the best result was found.

V1.8
Add Run x number of CPU tasks while running the GPU test.