Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 27th December 2007

The fact is there is no real incentive [other than arbitrary points].
It can be a pain to set up [especially if you want big points].
Eats electricity.
Has no real involvement.

Now I know there are probably arguments for all the above, but at the end of the day most people will see it exactly as I have written it. Most overclockers show off their achievements by benchtesting which is [usually] very quick to set up and gives almost instant results.

I think we should just count ourselves lucky we get the 3 or 4 new people a week as unless there is some big incentive I can't see team OcUK getting much larger, at least not in the short term and definitely not quickly enough to put us at an advantage over the other teams.

A rather negative view I know, but its the truth I tells ye!
 
Might not be able to stay Red in the EOC Stats much longer. The Quad which used to fold 24/7 is now my Games machine since the graphics card on my old Games machine has started playing up. This has meant moving the Quad PC to a warmer room and I've found the WinSMP client has become unstable. I would reduce the overclock on the machine to remedy this but the PC won't start if I attempt to make any change to the overclock settings in the BIOS. So now I've got 4 standard clients running at 50% to keep the temperature down. I suppose some crunching is better than no crunching at all, and I still have my other folders going (2 x WinSMP, 1 x Linux SMP & 2 PS3s). So don't expect Team ms9cw to be leaving the top ten just yet. :)

ms9cw
 
My X1900 always wedges in good and tight. Crap myself each time I take it out, as I put loads of pressure on it then BANG it suddenly comes free and I think "I've borked it this time for sure!"
 
I'm sure things will sort themselves out over the next couple of weeks. Don't forget we've got a few big farms that can't be on over the holiday, so that will be adding to the problem.

I should have everything up and running in the next week or so. So that should help a bit.

Another part of the problem of getting new people is that there are so many projects to choose from nowadays. I know folding is one of the more popular projects, but it seems that it just doesn't get people going like DC projects used to.

Anyways, like I said, I'm sure things will sort themselves out over the next few weeks.
 
Core Temp 0.96 is out folks - http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Version 0.96 - 31st December, 2007

- Add: System tray icons configuration.
- Add: Support for Intel's latest CPUs.
- Add: ClearType font support.
- Add: Time\Date column to the log file.
- Add: Always on top option.

- Fix: Core Temp does not proprerly display temperature and CPU select fields.
- Fix: Log file layout.
- Fix: Hide\Show does not properly Minimize\Restore window.
- Fix: Core code names aren't properly detected. (Intel)
- Fix: Incorrect\Missing CPU rating when not using stock\maximum multiplier. (Intel)
- Fix: Wrong CPU clock is reported when using EIST\non-maximum multiplier. (Intel)
- Fix: Wrong detection of Merom based CPUs.
- Fix: Single core Athlon 64s and Semprons reading -49C constantly. (Rare)
- Fix: C2D M0 rev. report very low temperatures. (Tjmax to 100C)
- Fix: Layout and display of tool tip text in the system tray. (Now shows a core per line)

- Change: Log the start and end of a session even if logging is disabled.
- Change: Settings and Systray settings windows appear in center of main window.
- Change: Rename "Tjunction" field to "Tj. Max" to make things clearer.
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Straight from the horse's mouth :D
 
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