dell power

mikeymike · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:14

woot i finished my 1st tiny unit on my home machine for ocuk, also made a 2nd account with 3 ancient dell boxes, they may do a wu every year or so but i guess everything helps

SiriusB · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:35

Welcome to the team

It might not be worth you running those ancient Dell machines to be honest mate. The amount of electricity they're using is likely to be excessive for very little return.

SiriusB

A.N.Other · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:45

It rather depends on what he defines 'ancient' as - and they don't have to be on 24/7, so there wouldn't be too much leccy wastage. What are the specs?

shadowscotland · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:18

mikeymike - I remember my first WU ....

..... it was a warm summer's evening and had arrived home from work to a quiet house .... something wrong, Why can't I hear any fans, that must mean .... checks Fahmon .... 775 @ 100% ... waiting to retry (12) Oh no that six hours of crunching time lost, must run two threads on my PIIIS from now on ....

Great work, keep folding and see if you can add a few more before the news on thursday

mikeymike · 12 Oct 2006 at 08:45

well the electric is free as its my work pc's :] its 2 dell 1.5ghz and 1 dell 2ghz, they all have 256meg memory though so doing anything kills them

mikeymike · 12 Oct 2006 at 08:46

they are currently on 172/500, 90/500, and 130/250, been on for a couple of days now, the only problem is if the cleaner see's them on she turns them off for the night :[

shadowscotland · 12 Oct 2006 at 10:12

The 1.5's aren't great (40-80ppd), the 2ghz should do 60-100ppd. use the -configonly switch to set them to only take the under 5mb stuff and that should help the ram issue.

mikeymike · 12 Oct 2006 at 10:50

what does that do exactly? only allow smaller WU's or something? ive set them all to less than 5meg now anyways

SiriusB · 12 Oct 2006 at 12:11

It causes the clients to download only small WUs so less RAM is used. You wont get as many points, but at least your rigs wont grind to a halt!

SiriusB

mikeymike · 14 Oct 2006 at 09:46

well one was just about to finish n its got 600points in under a week so ive agglomerated it into my mikeymike account n have 4PCs on that account now :] altho one of the 1.5ghz still says 78/500 so i have low hopes of it ever finishing a single WU :]