How many PC's we got folding...

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:17 am

Hi all,
Just wana see how many rigs we got folding right now?

I got 2 folding and 2 on the way:

Already folding: P4 2.4C and an AthlonXP 1700+

Coming: Athlon FX53 and AThlonXP 2000+

What about you guys?

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:47 am

I have one folding and 0 on the way (I'm poor and illuminati won't share with me)

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700+

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:49 am

I personally have these systems running:

My Intel 3.4EE overclocked to 3.8GHz w/ 1GB 2-2-2-5 memory
My Intel 1.7 M w/ 1GB 2-3-2-6 memory

I'm going to take the notebook off and add on the LAN system... The one I built for Quakecon 2004 to keep up with the others on the team.

That system is the 3.4GHz EE Socket T system with 2GB DDR2 Memory @ 667MHz.

Xerxes · Post by **Xerxes** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:51 am

2500+
barton @ 2.185
and gotta troubleshoot my 2.4 cel it doesnt like folding at all for some reason

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:13 pm

I've got 3 running now:
AMD 2500 Barton @ 2.42 GHz 1 gig ram
AMD 2500 Barton @ 2.20 GHz 1 gig ram
AMD 2600 T-Bred @ 2.13 GHz 1 gig ram (Wifes system).

NAiLs · Post by **NAiLs** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:44 pm

Once I get some RAM and another hard drive, I'd love to help out on my 2nd machine. Problem is, my parents B&M about the electricity bill every month!

I'm also trying to get my brother to use his PC, but he has said no to me many times. He has been turning his computer off at night lately anyway.

Current system though:

Athlon XP 2600+
1GB PC2700 DDR

eric m. · Post by **eric m.** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:40 am

Xerxes wrote:2500+
barton @ 2.185
and gotta troubleshoot my 2.4 cel it doesnt like folding at all for some reason

did you try the console version? sometimes that works better when a computer doesn't want to run the GUI version.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:47 am

NAiLs wrote:Once I get some RAM and another hard drive, I'd love to help out on my 2nd machine. Problem is, my parents B&M about the electricity bill every month! I'm also trying to get my brother to use his PC, but he has said no to me many times. He has been turning his computer off at night lately anyway.

Current system though:

Athlon XP 2600+
1GB PC2700 DDR

I have a question about the whole "electricity" thing. I once heard (like 6 years ago) that it takes more electricity to turn your computer on and off than to leave it running all night. Anyone know?

eric m. · Post by **eric m.** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:56 am

Amy wrote:I have a question about the whole "electricity" thing. I once heard (like 6 years ago) that it takes more electricity to turn your computer on and off than to leave it running all night. Anyone know?

i don't see how that is possible... unless you take into consideration that the hard drive and CPU are working while it boots up and at night it sits there idling. in any case, the CPU is not idling when F@H is running, so it will use some power, but like the F@H FAQ says, it ends up being just a few cents a day on average if you leave your computer on 24/7.

electricity is only used when there is a demand for it. the more things you have running, the more power it will use. if you are playing an audio cd on repeat all night while you sleep, as you defrag your hard drive and download a large file while running [email protected]'s going to use just as much or mroe power as you usually use. the power use is pretty minimal though. a large CRT monitor uses more power than the whole computer, in most cases. that's why having it shut off is usually better than a screen saver.

T-Shirt · Post by **T-Shirt** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:39 am

Amy wrote:
NAiLs wrote:Once I get some RAM and another hard drive, I'd love to help out on my 2nd machine. Problem is, my parents B&M about the electricity bill every month! I'm also trying to get my brother to use his PC, but he has said no to me many times. He has been turning his computer off at night lately anyway.

Current system though:

Athlon XP 2600+
1GB PC2700 DDR
I have a question about the whole "electricity" thing. I once heard (like 6 years ago) that it takes more electricity to turn your computer on and off than to leave it running all night. Anyone know?

False!
even in standby the computer running uses more electricty than when off, and the brief power surge during startup (spinning up drive ,etc) is short lived and a relitively small use.
The old argument was start up is the most stressful moments in your computers life (and your car too, but you wouldn't leave it running all the time would you?) and that it might last longer if you left it on.
Given current electric prices vs computer prices it makes more sense to turn it off if you KNOW you would use it for at least 4-6 hours (and it should go to stand by/hibernate fairly quickly.
However folding is using the cpu, memory and hard drive at a fairly high level, the only thing you saving over ahard gameing is GPU and monitor power.
Distributed computing is also distributed electric bill. so you have to decide the value to you.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:17 am

Now folding on:

Athlon 2500+m @ 2.2ghz w/ 512mb
Opteron 2x 240 @ 1.4ghz w/ 2gb
Pentium 3 @ 933mhz w/ 512mb
Pentium 3 @ 866mhz w/ 512mb
Pentium 3 @ 866mhz w/ 512mb
2x Pentium 3 @ 733mhz w/ 1gb
Pentium 3 @ 733mhz w/ 512mb
Pentium 3 @ 550mhz w/ 256mb

Systems in need of repair:

Pentium 4 @ 1.8ghz w/ 1gb
Pentium 3 @ 866 w/ 512mb

eric m. · Post by **eric m.** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:06 pm

i just started folding on the new computer i recently built. thought it would be a good way to break it in before i really start OCing it.

P4 2.8e O/C'ed to 3.2 w/ 512mb (hyperthreading: running 2 f@h at once)

here are the other computers i've been using:
P4 3.2 w/512mb
P4 2.8 w/512mb
P4 1.8 w/256mb
AMD athlon XP 1800+ w/256mb
AMD athlon thunderbird 1.4ghz w/512mb
P3 800 w/256mb
P4 1.2 ghz w/256mb

a couple of those are a little shaky though. i also have one P2 laptop going but it's so slow i don't think it's even finished one WU yet. and it's been a week.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:15 pm

what do you need to repair on those old systems... maybe a forum member has some old parts we can get you

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:21 pm

you talking to me or to eric?

eric m. · Post by **eric m.** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:55 pm

i think he's talking to you. my systems are all running, just some of them are a little old. you said 2 of yours need repair. do you need any parts? i'm sure most of us have spare stuff lying around you can have.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:30 pm

hehe parts are not much of a problem for me, at least not for old stuff. The p3 866 needs some time thats all, i put it together and it did not boot fully, i think that i put the jumpers on wrong as i run both the HD and CDROM off the same channel. and the P4 systems is in need fo a new scsi drive as one of the drives has failed and i dont think many people have those around.

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:21 pm

i got mine on this now too, i put in your team#..

Post by **Illuminati** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:07 pm

P4 2.6 @ 2.88 w/Hyperthreading w/ 512mb

I have that one running Windows and Fedora Core 2 Linux... so that's where 4 of my shown CPU's come from ... and the fifth was one I had running at work ... but no longer. (boss got tired of hearing the ramped up fan noise to cool the P4 2.7 (no HT) in the Dell)

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:23 pm

Your boss at Truman State University made you turn it off? That is insane. When I was an SA in Ryle Hall I put all the office computers and the student lab on SETI. Had over 25 PC's chuggin out data. Wish I was still in college I'd do it again.

Here is my updated list of systems running

Intel Pentium 4 3.6 EE (Socket 478, i875P Chipset) w/ 2gb XMS XL PC-3200
Intel Pentium 4 3.4 EE (Socket 775, i925P Chipset) w/ 1gb XMS2 PC-5400
Intel Pentium-M 1.7 (Centrino Notebook) w/ 1gb Kingston PC-2700

Post by **Illuminati** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:45 pm

Ya, its a small office... Jim M. from networking... I think you've been in his office before... he has 5 systems in that little room on all the time... he already had to move a drop-ceiling tile to allow the heat to escape out of the room. and that was with all the computers pretty much at idle...

Take in to account that its a P4 and a variable speed fan... it got hot and noisy very quickly. I didn't really blame him... I could tell the difference in room temp... prolly about a 6-8 degree F difference.