Hashcat only using ~2% of GPU?

[NoahWL1]

You should be able to get a little bit more out of your GPU if you add ''-w 3'' to your command line. But keep in mind this may cause display issues, and will likely raise the GPU temperature as well.

You can manually distribute load between cudaHashcat and hashcat-cli using --keyspace, -s, -l, and a little bit of clever math. WPA now uses an AMP kernel so you'll have to convert the keyspace from the "oclHashcat keyspace" to the "real keyspace" in order to distribute between the two devices.

Considering I didn't understand half of that, I think I'll stick with just the GPU for now... lol. Adding -w 3 definitely gives it a boot. Between that and overclocking my GPU, I'm up to 16k k/s. Thanks for your help, once I get a better understanding of Hashcat I'll look into using both the CPU and the GPU. Oh, and cooling shouldn't be a problem even in my laptop. It has pretty good circulation as it is and if I manually set the fan speed fairly high and keep it on a cooling pad, it doesn't get over 60C.