Sharky Forums Folding Team

**gkline** · 12-03-2003, 04:14 PM

purewire, In my book you and all folders are at the top of the heap regardless of how many or few computers are folding. You are part of it. The competition is fun and addictive, BUT the important thing is we are using are machines in a way that will help all of us in the human race.

**idiotekniQues** · 12-03-2003, 05:08 PM

out of curiosity how much electricity does that use one of the people i asked to join folding@home asked me that.....how much juice does a cpu under full load use vs one that is just idling left on.

**RealBeast** · 12-03-2003, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by gkline
purewire, In my book you and all folders are at the top of the heap regardless of how many or few computers are folding. You are part of it.

Absolutely true. That's the whole basis of the folding project, tens or hundreds of thousands of computers cranking out tens of millions of work units to solve incredibly comlex studies. Every WU gets us all closer to the cures that await!

BTW -- Anyone know if the beta 4 console is any faster than the latest FAH 3 console on Intel chips?

**schultz** · 12-03-2003, 06:36 PM

well said everyone! let's keep doing the good and folding!

Originally posted by RealBeast
BTW -- Anyone know if the beta 4 console is any faster than the latest FAH 3 console on Intel chips?

and i think the beta 4 is slightly faster than the 3 console, but it is only an increase of 2-5%, or something like that. so i say just stick with what you have as long as it's working (as has been said before: "if it ain't broke...don't fix it").

**serotone9** · 12-03-2003, 06:52 PM

Originally posted by idioteQnology
out of curiosity how much electricity does that use one of the people i asked to join folding@home asked me that.....how much juice does a cpu under full load use vs one that is just idling left on.

if my latest bill is any indication, folding doesn't use noticeably more electricity than a PC just left idling. what really sucks the juice are monitors -- i noticed a big drop when i went from CRT to LCD. without the huge power draw from the monitor, the PC seems to hardly use any juice. so if the computer has a monitor attached to it, just make sure it's set to go into standby.

**XP1800** · 12-03-2003, 07:24 PM

Real folding machines don't even use monitors though

**schultz** · 12-03-2003, 07:25 PM

Originally posted by XP1800
Real folding machines don't even use monitors though

hehehe...i wish that was true for me!

**XP1800** · 12-03-2003, 07:36 PM

Originally posted by schultz
hehehe...i wish that was true for me!

My goal is to have a few headless rigs doing nothing but folding sometime after the holidays. I guess if I unplug my LCD than this rig counts too

**RealBeast** · 12-03-2003, 07:40 PM

Originally posted by XP1800
Real folding machines don't even use monitors though

Hehe, I got a couple of machines folding that have no monitor, KB, mouse, sound card, or case covers -- only NICs so I can monitor them remotely, and they can up and down their WUs.

**idiotekniQues** · 12-03-2003, 07:58 PM

hehe. all the rigs i introduced to folding recently are all people's one and only pc and all have monitor shut down while the puter idles.

hopefully around xmas ill hvae a headless beast folding too, all i am going to install on it is Windows, Halo Dedicated Server software, and folding@home.

**serotone9** · 12-03-2003, 08:10 PM

Originally posted by XP1800
Real folding machines don't even use monitors though

real folding machines are any machines running folding.

i've got one "headless" machine (a PII300

) that i ssh into to monitor, and another 1600+ almost ready to go, probably by the weekend, if the old retail hsf can take the punishment until i can decide what new one to get. i'm coming for 10th, mystif!

**thebove** · 12-03-2003, 10:23 PM

my main rig obviously has it's own monitor and peripheral setup, but my other 2 systems share a setup, one of which runs "headless" most of the time....after christmas i'll be adding another machine which will run "headless" (that's a funny term

), but hopefully then i'll have a KVM for the other 3 systems up here.

**mystifmagic** · 12-04-2003, 12:16 AM

Milestones page has been updated with the new 1k guys.

**XP1800** · 12-04-2003, 01:16 AM

Originally posted by mystifmagic
Milestones page has been updated with the new 1k guys.

Mystif, we have to edit my name there too, almost forgot

**mystifmagic** · 12-04-2003, 01:28 AM

Originally posted by XP1800
Mystif, we have to edit my name there too, almost forgot

Your folding name is still XP18004life. (unless you are folding under a new account now)

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