lol it would be funny (with my apologies for wasting your time) if this came down to my wife sleeping the PC every night. . . i will have to look into that.
but i note that FahMon lists the GPU at 4500+ PPD even if i run it only a few hours a day, so intermittent folding with the SMP should also show a more or less instant PPD rate, corrrect?

but regardless, CPU was pegged at 100% on all threads except now it is not because of my core_78 work unit (at 12% or so, with 5 of the 10 cores idle). strangely, the 1 thread dedicated to the GPU client is running 100%.

I'm gonna re-check my settings and run SMP alone without GPU for a day or two and see what WUs and PPDs I get.

// edit : thanks Sir Loin, will try hfm instead of fahmon