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Originally posted by lonewolfroger
The only thing is that for me to move to a place I can afford, I would not be able to get cable internet and I don`t want to go back to 56K dial up, so I am thinking of either getting the wiring done a little at a time or finally give in and get one of these credit cards that I seem to get about 40 offers for in the mail each week and have it all done at one time. I did go out and buy a good fire extinguisher. BTW, good job everybody we are now ranked at #60.

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You know your a geek when you sacrafice living conditions and safety for Internet speed ;)

just kiddin....

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Originally posted by XJ
You know your a geek when you sacrafice living conditions and safety for Internet speed ;)

just kiddin....

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Thats bad, now I also have to go to all the trouble of degeeking myself. :D Fold on.

Woot! Just got cable! Now I wont have to wait so long to upload and download WUs. It's not as good as what I've had in the past, but it sure beats what I was using.

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Originally posted by Smythe
Woot! Just got cable! Now I wont have to wait so long to upload and download WUs. It's not as good as what I've had in the past, but it sure beats what I was using.

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Cause that is where all the slow down in folding comes in :D

Just kiddin.... (don't know why I feel the need to be a jerk lately?)

Actually it would take 30 minutes to an hour to upload/download WUs before and during uploads I wouldn't beable to surf the internet so now things are alot faster and I can get working quicker.

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Originally posted by Smythe
Actually it would take 30 minutes to an hour to upload/download WUs before and during uploads I wouldn't beable to surf the internet so now things are alot faster and I can get working quicker.

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back at home, i had to go through the same thing.

Now guys, get this, my brother at home is on 56k. However, he doesn't pay attention to folding and my mom is rarely on the net for more than 15 minutes. I'm starting to think he's got close to a full queue, cuz everytime it would try to send results in, it wouldn't have enough time...:(

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Originally posted by Smythe
Actually it would take 30 minutes to an hour to upload/download WUs before and during uploads I wouldn't beable to surf the internet so now things are alot faster and I can get working quicker.

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Well I guess I was wrong I never looked at file sizes just saw that it pretty much seemed to just move on to the next with no delay just figured it was pretty small.

Guess that what you get for being a jerk :o

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Originally posted by Smythe
Actually it would take 30 minutes to an hour to upload/download WUs before and during uploads I wouldn't beable to surf the internet so now things are alot faster and I can get working quicker.

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Did it take that long? You must not be connecting at over 28.8k modem :D

Since each WU is about 350KB so send and recieve.. It should only take about 5 min each way.. If that...

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Originally posted by Colossus
Did it take that long? You must not be connecting at over 28.8k modem :D

Since each WU is about 350KB so send and recieve.. It should only take about 5 min each way.. If that...

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Yes, it takes that long to send in results and get a new WU, at lease it did when I was on 56K dial up, it took me most of the time from 15 to 20 minutes just to send in results.:(

That is odd... Shrug.. Havent been on dialup since 98 :)

But I just broke 10k... I would of broken it long ago.. But with only 2 machines folding.. My PPW is rather poor...

Mine was 33.3k :eek:

Also because of the way my connection was set up I couldn't use an auto-dialer and I would be disconnected from the internet when I wasn't at my computer.

Joined today!!!

I think this is awesome. I am a molecular and cellular biology major at U.C. Berkeley and I plan on working as a lab tech for a couple of years and then going to med school. I was working in a lab that did studies on cancer in the GI tract, where I did the histology. I have always been interested in working in research. This program makes me feel like I am closer to that goal... although I'm not really doing anything myself by letting the program work, but I can imagine.

Any way. I am working on my prelab write-up for an affinity purification and a SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, so I gotta go. GO SHARKY FOLDING@HOME!!!!

Welcome Davnport! Always a pleasure to have new members come aboard. :)

Welcome davnport! :)

And gratz to Colossus on his 10K! (You need to get some more of your machines folding big guy!!:))

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Originally posted by vertices
Welcome davnport! :)

And gratz to Colossus on his 10K! (You need to get some more of your machines folding big guy!!:))

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no no no less folding, less folding! :D

Actually when I dropped from 4 - 2, (also decreased SETI too) my office at home is much cooler! *lol*

No longer would I need to wear a t-shirt and shorts in my home office! I can now actually get cold in there...

broke 3 k today, thats not bad considering only 2 machines are running FoH, since my lappy only runs it when its plugged in at home

These tinkers or what ever they are are getting on my nerves. I can't even average 200 points a day. Takes almost 3 days to do one with a 2.4 and I get 71 points. I know this is not suppost be about the point but how hard is it to set some base line like a P4 2.0 can make 3 points a hour so if Folding XXXX protein take 20 hours with a 2.0 then it worth 60 points.

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Originally posted by Gorn
These tinkers or what ever they are are getting on my nerves. I can't even average 200 points a day. Takes almost 3 days to do one with a 2.4 and I get 71 points. I know this is not suppost be about the point but how hard is it to set some base line like a P4 2.0 can make 3 points a hour so if Folding XXXX protein take 20 hours with a 2.0 then it worth 60 points.

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It seems like people are getting about half Tinkers and half Gromacs, with the new F@H 4.0 program, no matter if you have -advmethods applied or not. BTW, it only took 40 hours for my 1600+ at 1.8ghz to do a 70.9 point Tinker and I think(but I`m not sure) that someone got in contact with them and they said they were aware of the point problem and were working on it.

I've got no DSL at home or work, I'd love to allow all the folding machines access to the dial-up roxy but that would rape it....

Folding for this team is crused I swear, I've got 4 machines down atm and no DSL :p

So for folding, the only way to improve the speed of analysis would be to increase cpu core speed? does RAM affect it? I am not overclocked at the moment, but was thinking of going for 3200+ speeds on my main rig (the only one I have here in Berkeley). How much would that affect the folding, it at all?

oh and with regards to the o/cing, would I see improvement of folding if I were to keep the 1.83 factory speed of the barton 2500+, but change it so that the fsb was at 200, while dropping the multiplier to 9? Thanks

I dont think you would really gain anything by overclocking to 200Mhz FSB but dropping the multi to 9...

Since Folding@home is not memory dependant... My setup folds at the same speed in SCDDR vs DCDDR...

Why would you lower the multi? Most 2500+ can do 200x11 very easily..

The one I owned and sold did it rather easily..

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Originally posted by davnport
oh and with regards to the o/cing, would I see improvement of folding if I were to keep the 1.83 factory speed of the barton 2500+, but change it so that the fsb was at 200, while dropping the multiplier to 9? Thanks

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Going to 200fsb on the 2500+ Barton is almost like getting a free 3200+ CPU. Mine (a newer locked version) went to 200fsb with no bump in Vcore -- stable as a rock. See this thread: http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthre...hreadid=225492

Welcome davnport. Yup, my 2500+ easily folds 24/7 at 11x211.

Woot, I managed to get into the 40k's with Thermo for a few hours till he hits 50k. :D

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Originally posted by Colossus

Why would you lower the multi? Most 2500+ can do 200x11 very easily..

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Did you have to up your Vcore when you did this? It seems like most of the threads posting "I went to 200x11 w/ my barton 2500" didn't have to make any voltage corrections. Also are you going from 166fsb straight to 200, or did you move incremently?

Reason I ask is because I did jump from 166fsb to 200, but it didn't last 3minutes in Prime95, so I decided that since I don't see anything wrong with the performance of my rig now, I would wait until I needed a performance boost. I know, I know, free 3200+, but If I wasn't going to see any difference when playing a vid game (and for now all I play in rainbow six 3 online) I didn't see a point in o/cing... that is until now.

So, any help in that voltage area would be great guys. I figured what I have to do is start from 166fsb and slide her up in increments of 5 checking stability and then keep going (while starting with mult at a lower setting). Then once I reached max without volt change I would possibly give her a .025 increase, see if i can keep going. When I get to 200fsb I would try bumping my mult to 11 and check stability.