What specs do people have for Folding?

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Do people just use old PIIIs or splash out on a dedicated computer with quad core?

This thread was inspired by the thread in GD about electricity bills and Folding. :)
 
I have a variety of machines.
A few PIIIs I was given
a few Pentium M laptops
a Core Duo laptop
a dual Xeon desktop
a few Pentium 4 desktops
a few Athlon XP desktops
 
Old PIIIs are not worth it any more, one quad will probably eccomplish what 10 or more PIIIs would for substantially less electricity use.
 
Most were donated or offered as borgs by friends and associates. The laptops and the Xeon rig are my personal machines.

Oh, there's my X2 3800+ HTPC as well.
Berserker said:
Old PIIIs are not worth it any more, one quad will probably accomplish what 10 or more PIIIs would for substantially less electricity use.
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I'm quite aware but if they're going to be on anyway they might as well be running FAH.
 
1 Quad (OC'ed and running SMP) = 50 P3's (stock and standard client)
but as Billy says if they are on anyway the power differential between idle and 100% load is only 80-100w (aka a light bulb)
 
shadowscotland said:
1 Quad (OC'ed and running SMP) = 50 P3's (stock and standard client)
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In my experience a stock standard 733 MHz P3 sees around 33 PPD.
shadowscotland said:
but as Billy says if they are on anyway the power differential between idle and 100% load is only 80-100w (aka a light bulb)
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I'm not the most knowledgeable here but with P3s I think the differential is FAR lower. One of my P3 rigs has an 85 W PSU.
 
That's not a Dell perchance is it? They underquote their PSUs. 85W really isn't much (unless it's a laptop or a Mac Mini).
 
I don't see much point in running anything that's PIII or slower; it's just not cost-effective. I have a Celeron laptop based on the PIII Coppermine core... it gets something like 30PPD. To me that's essentially useless... if I encode a video on my C2D for an hour, I've lost the equivalent of a whole week's production on the Celeron!
 
I used to run 10 PCs, most of which were built for and used solely for Folding (I did have a list somewhere but can't seem to find it now). I stopped for a while but have recently taken it up again but will be running less rigs (although they will be fairly high spec - two quads and two duos).

I have to pay for leccy now :( so I want as much bang per Watt as possible.
 
A more-or-less stock Q6600 and E6600 here, both running WinSMP. The Q6600 is my main PC so it's on 24/7. The E6600 is the one I use for VMWare emulations so isn't on all the time.

20 820Ds, 14 E2140s, 1 E6400, 2 3GHz P4s and 1 Xeon of some sort at a school, all running one Windows console client each.
 
*feels sorry for himself*

One lowly E6600 @ 3.2ghz :( - running Win SMP cause i know bugger all about linux.

Almost 24/7 and does a WU every 22 hours or so, decent output.

Electricity wise i have no idea !
 
1.83Ghz Core Duo @ 55watts folding. Nice little green machine.

edit - thats a lie actually I've still not fixed the client. god i'm lazy.
 
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