Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 2nd June 2006

Bigstan said:
Beats me mate. Are they on 24/7? What kind of processors are we talking here?

I have only 9 + the occasional WU from my brother's laptop and my 24hr average is over 500 more than yours and that's with one of my X2s being o** for a few days, when I'm back up to full production, I will be about 800-900 ahead of you :confused:

Stan :)
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all of them are 2.8Ghz P4 with HT and 512mb RAM apart from my main rig which is an AMD 64 X2 4400+ with 2gb ram (as per sig) :confused: should be fine
 
Admiral Huddy said:
all of them are 2.8Ghz P4 with HT and 512mb RAM apart from my main rig which is an AMD 64 X2 4400+ with 2gb ram (as per sig) :confused: should be fine
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Weird :confused: You should be doing a lot more than you are.

My X2 4400+ rig has almost identical spec to your's (same mobo but Corsair PC4000 instead of OCZ) and mine gets me 300-400 ppd on it's own which is about half of your total output.

You should be kicking my arse with that lot. Are they on 24/7?

Stan :)
 
How much would it cost to put a decent rig together that is for folding only. I'm a student, so I'm obviously not rolling in money but I do think that FAH is a good cause, and I'm interested in making a decent machine for it.
 
Corran said:
How much would it cost to put a decent rig together that is for folding only. I'm a student, so I'm obviously not rolling in money but I do think that FAH is a good cause, and I'm interested in making a decent machine for it.
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£250-300?
 
I have an old athlon 2600+ rig sitting in the loft at my parents at the moment. The mother board karked it for some reason but I know that the graphics card, hard drive and cd-rw in it still work. (Graphics card was a radeon 9700, I remember when they were at the top!)
 
the best bang for the buck for FAH at the moment is an Intel Pentium D 805. It's dual core with 1 MiB L2 cache and it's wicked cheap:
Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN) Price: £72.95 (£85.72 Including VAT at 17.5%)

They overclock like mad.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
the best bang for the buck for FAH at the moment is an Intel Pentium D 805. It's dual core with 1 MiB L2 cache and it's wicked cheap:
Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN) Price: £72.95 (£85.72 Including VAT at 17.5%)

They overclock like mad.
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Does it overclock quite well on air? I intend to get a watercooled set up eventually but that will only be when my laptop really starts to show its age and I need a new gaming rig.
 


I'd go for this (dualcore = higher output), if you get watercooling you might want to consider forking out another £50-60 for a better motherboard + a cheapo pci-e gfx so you can overclock.
 
I would go with pentium d a cheap asrock mobo but one that has ok oc abilities. You already have a hard drive and cdrw I take it? 1gb of value ram second hand or new (the price difference isnt that big), have you got a spare case, the cheapest pci gfx card will be fine just when you want to check on things and installing windows.
 
It would likely be for folding only. I already have this laptop and a P4 rig that can do everything else :). (The joys of getting a job when you are 16, and spending everything you earn rather than putting it in the bank :rolleyes: )

Thanks again ;) .
 
BillytheImpaler said:
If it's for FAH only you can really start to chop away. For instance, you definitely don't need an 80 GiB Spinpoint just to run the OS and Folding.
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Ok, fair enough, but its a good starting point.
 
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These parts would make for a killer overclocker. All it needs is a PSU and a hard disk.

I'll see if I can trade down on the mobo and get it all in for less than 300 quid.
 
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