How much has folding added to your electricity bill?

norm said:
IYou may not recall but England and many parts of Europe were once largely covered by trees. They were removed to bring about development, much like Brazil is doing.
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Except our forests were filled with men in tights being 'merry' together. Their forests are filled with ninja tigers and cancer cures.
 
ive read there is lots of folding projects and such for research for cures for medical stuff, but is there any folding for the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

surely if we can get every computer in the world working on creating the question, nothing else will be important.
 
norm said:
I like how people in the developed world think they have some kind of right/control over the rain forests in Brazil. They are free to do with it as they please.

You may not recall but England and many parts of Europe were once largely covered by trees. They were removed to bring about development, much like Brazil is doing.
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This arguement is totaly pointless because its not in the same context.When we cut ours down it was to advance and i beleive a lot of it was cut down in the industrial revolution? What brazil are doing is destroying the future. We know this know, we could not know it then. To argue that is a rediculas thing to say.


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Perhaps they are not trying to solve cancer but are trying to build the answer to the world the universe and everything in it. Wonder if it will be a super computer which calculates the answer to be 42 mmm
 
My home is a business as my Mum is a childminder, so electricity is being used all day for things like heating, television, cooking, music etc. Me running one computer 24/7 of course adds to the electricity bill, but my PC does everything else for me too.

TV, stereo, radio, games, movies are all played/watched through my PC, so no extra stereo, TV, DVD player and so on is needed. I also do not have the heating on in my room - ever - so money saved there. I rarely use my bedroom light unless reading at night. Currently watching a DVD downstairs [too late to use my PC :p] and I am sat in near complete darkness. I also go on a crusade every now and then turning off lights/appliances that my parents are always leaving on.

So... in conclusion. I probably save just as much energy as the extra I use. So it's all good :)
 
I don't actually fold but it wouldn't cost me any more or less per month. My mum pays a set amount per month no matter what we use.
 
What concerns me more is how much electricity the plasma screen and receiver uses,
I think the TV is something like 1KW and receiver 540W
 
bledd. said:
folding is a total waste imo
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I think we've had that debate about every single distributed computing project ever. In my household, a car would be a total waste, as I'm medically unfit to drive, but that doesn't mean I'll go slating everyone who owns one. I might even be a passenger now and then. :)
 
Bottom line is, who cares, if you’re worried about the lecky bill, then you’re not interested in what the science is trying to prevent, or help solve. Can u honestly say the folks at Stanford are worried about watts or what it costs?

My opinion ... for what it's worth, "Hell No", their trying to figure out what cause’s one of the most deadly diseases known to man, Mr. Cancer.

The points or who parps / stomps who, what is that ????? We're talking about people's lives. What is a watt compared to a love'd ones live? Put a "PPD" on that please cuz I can't calculate it. Then go talk to me about what it costs to do this. One watt = X or does it ?????

Have your ever seen what these nasty diseases’ do to people, what they do to one's family and their loved ones ???? ... Put a price on a watt !!

Me personally, and I can't speak for the rest, I'd give up anything and everything to save but one life, to help prevent the pain an suffering those that endure these insufferable moments, all for the sake of a watt or two, a moment in which we'll drink up in glee over the festive holidays. How much does a watt mean????

When you’re with your family this holiday season, think about the watts you've expended, and just maybe you'll think about those that are suffering and hoping that there's an end to their suffering, a cure for their pain, all the while, we enjoy a nice frosty pint. What's the cost of a watt???

What is the real price of a watt?? Selling your soul for a point or two, you can have my points, but there's one caveat SP???? , we cure a disease; we kill something that kills more than any war ever thought of doing.

That’s my cost of a lecy Bill, that my price or increase in electricity, I'll take that increase.

Just my two cents and I spend allot on the ole Lecy Bill, not to mention the hardware that is runs on.

What's the price of a watt ??
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Threads like this do make me smile

A full C2D system folding (with a screen on) is 145-175w (E4300-X6800)
Remove the screen and your down to 125-155w. (numbers taken from resonable sources below) Even if you OC the C2D - which most of us do - your around 200-250w

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q4/core2-qx6700/index.x?pg=16
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page3.html

A Gaming PC with the good screen (+40w), gaming keyboard and mouse (+20w) a high end Card (+150w) and linked to a 5.1 sound system (+200w)
will easily top 3 times that.
OC the GPU and CPU, Add SLI or Crossfire and the water cooling/phase setup to cool the beast it and your on 5-6x. :eek:

So 4 hours of gaming on a high spec rig = ~20h folding on same OC'ed CPU/Mobo/Ram (Watts used)
Add to that the extra £1000 for the two cards and cooling and a few hundred to keep you in current releases and you find 'Gaming' is more pointless that Folding - (as far as watts used goes :p)

Edit @BB - Hi BrightonBell - Folding is basically a project run by stanford Uni so that millions of pc around the world acting a one supercomputer to caculate mathmatical models of proteins - this is real science - by top professional with the results published in scientic journals.
See the sticky at the top of this DC sub forum for more info.

Edit2: in answer to the Actual question in this thread - my bill went down.
When I first visted this forum I had a - an old 1.2 Tualatin clocked to 1.5, but decided to upgrade to a [email protected] best bank for buck at the time. My electric bill went from £28 a month to over £30 - I them got into Folding - due to the science and the good community here in DC.
Electric bill went to £45 per month.
So I started turning off my TV, HiFi, Microwave etc at night. - Bill droped to £35
So I then upgarded to a C2D and an 500w enermax liberty so that at 200-250w load it was at max effecency (84%) - Bill droped to £25
I've just upgraded to a passive WC loop - so removed all the fans in my system so may drop another 50p a month (and now it's completely quiet at night)

I live with my wife and son in a large two bedroom flat btw with an electric cook/hob but gas central heating - incase anyone was wondering ;)
 
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Since I switched to C2D and C2Q from my old Athlon XP's, Opterons, P4's and PPros :eek: my electricity bill has gone down too.
 
Works Core2Duo 4300 with 5 hard drives and a 19" TFT monitor consumes only 146watts under full load, 157watts when all the hard drives are being accessed, It idles at something like 120watts.
 
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8igdave said:
O so its your parents electricity bill. That doesn;'t count because they probably dont know why its going up so much lol.
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Well the fact is it probably hasn't gone up. Like I said, I offset my PC's power consumption by basically having no other electrical appliances, don't my light often, don't heat my room, turn off appliances and lights after other people etc etc.

How can it not count if there is a good possibility I am saving more than I am using?
 
basmic said:
I don't mind donating when it's not causing me any loss or expense.
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So you never donate to charity then? After all that would cost you money.

Not all of us are so tight-fisted - even some of us mean Jocks are willing to spend a few quid if it'll maybe help others.
 
KE1HA said:
What's the price of a watt ??
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What's the price of the computer hardware and electricity that the companies/charities would like us to use for free?

Until they line my pockets to cover the expense of running their software on my computer and the electric, they can quite simply get stuffed and/or drop dead.
Bigstan said:
So you never donate to charity then? After all that would cost you money.

Not all of us are so tight-fisted - even some of us mean Jocks are willing to spend a few quid if it'll maybe help others.
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I don't see why I would want to donate to any charity, when I won't get any benefit from them.

You might find me putting a copper or two in Dogstrust or Cancer Research's pockets - but nobody else. Full stop.
 
basmic said:
What's the price of the computer hardware and electricity that the companies/charities would like us to use for free?

Until they line my pockets to cover the expense of running their software on my computer and the electric, they can quite simply get stuffed and/or drop dead.I don't see why I would want to donate to any charity, when I won't get any benefit from them.

You might find me putting a copper or two in Dogstrust or Cancer Research's pockets - but nobody else. Full stop.
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You come across as a horrible selfish miser in that post. Donating to a charity isn't for your own benefit. That's the point. Charity is also by choice, so why you think charities should "get stuffed and/or drop dead" because you don't agree with them or their cause is beyond me. God forbid you or anyone you care for ever needs the services of a charity.
 
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