Foldy News delayed

gah!
makes slackworth (adwitsworth or however its spelt) look on time!

btw, worth me borging these 4 lenovo 3000 N100 laptops I've got at a new clients?
think they are 1.6Ghz cellerons :(
 
if they are new celerons then you may aswell - if they are older ones then make sure your client supplies the users with asbestos lap-pads and don't expect much out of them


I would however be very careful about borging laptops that weren't my own purely from a power consumption point of view - though you know more of the situation with these in particular than the rest of us



edit: and I deny the similarity to Slacky - his posts were far more spectacularly late than this :p
 
rich99million said:
I would however be very careful about borging laptops that weren't my own purely from a power consumption point of view - though you know more of the situation with these in particular than the rest of us
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Absolutely, I never borg or run folding on laptops because the cooling system simply isn't up to it usually. They are not designed to be under full load all the time.

If your cilents accused you of trying to generate extra income by borging their laptops and causing them to fail prematurely they would be making a fair point i think. I know thats not the intention but is it worth the risk?

Perhaps putting it on at 25% utilisation or something would be ok.

I don't have folding on my laptop, although it is an ultraportable so the cooling is pretty poor anyway, but i couldn't see it lasting long with that tiny fan whizzing away constantly sucking up dust, if the dust didn't kill it the bearings certainly would before too long and i would have quite a struggle replacing it if that were even possible.

Of course if its a gaming laptop or even a decent business laptop that might be designed to run at near full cpu utilisation most of the time thats a different story, but be careful.

As for the folding news, i don't mind at all if its late, better late than never i say :)
If it becomes a pain posting the news at the same time every week i would have no problem at all if it didn't appear at a regular time.
 
Joe42 said:
Of course if its a gaming laptop or even a decent business laptop that might be designed to run at near full cpu utilisation most of the time thats a different story, but be careful.
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Indeed. Can't have those XPS M1710 laptops going to waste now, can we? :D

Actually, anything well built with a proper mobile processor (i.e. not a bodged up egg cooker), should be safe. Anything else, prepare to lose your manhood. :eek:
 
Berserker said:
Actually, anything well built with a proper mobile processor (i.e. not a bodged up egg cooker), should be safe. Anything else, prepare to lose your manhood. :eek:
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Quite. ;)
Although in my case as its an ultraportable with a proper mobile processor trapped under a few bits of copper and some spinning pieces of plastic to waft a few molecules of warm air in its general direction. It does only weigh 1.6kg tho so i suppose you can't have everything...
 
Joe42 said:
Quite. ;)
Although in my case as its an ultraportable with a proper mobile processor trapped under a few bits of copper and some spinning pieces of plastic to waft a few molecules of warm air in its general direction. It does only weigh 1.6kg tho so i suppose you can't have everything...
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Ah, a George Foreman grill :p

Stan :)
 
I have a small-and-light Vaio laptop (about 1.8kg) with 1.66Ghz Core Duo processor. I tend to fold two threads on it. At the original settings it got pretty toasty (65-70c) but I found out that it runs perfectly fine with the CPU voltage dropped from 1.2625v to 1v. Now down to 52c full load :cool:

Amazingly it still seems to be running stable at 0.95v full load, which is the same voltage it uses when it drops the CPU speed to minimum. Some more testing required! Makes me wonder how far it would go if only I could overclock it :(

Previously we had a 2.8Ghz P4-mobile lappy. I tried Folding on it but it lasted all of fifteen minutes before it hit 75c and shut itself down.
 
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odd, they are cellys, but have HT or dual core or somthing! (I normaly avoid em like mad, so <0 exp with them).
can't install FAH on them as even with one core it makes the fans go MAD (I installed on one core, gave it 30 mins to see what happened, fans where noticeable but not mad, so I installed 2nd cores client, left that running for 30 mins, came back, took headphones out and realised it wasn't as quiet as I thought!!!)
pitty, 4 lappys going to waste, tempted to install it at 10% utilization or somthing just so they ARE in use!
 
the task manager shows two cores.
the "my computer" info shows the CPUs are Cellerons at 1.6Ghz
the post info says 3.2Ghz :confused:

I'll take a look later on, FYI they are Lenovo 3000 N100s
 
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