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Originally posted by sapasion
That's precisely right. Two factors to remember. One, GUI owners especially, may notice around a 1-3 minutes difference when surfing the Net, playing games or simply using their PC versus when its pure folding. Another way to approxiamate your production output is a makeshift chart I saw over at [H] and slightly tweaked. It reads as follows:
The numbers go something like this:
Points Per Ghz Per Day Day assumes 24 hours and using Gromacs with SSE
AMD
Duron 26-29
Tbird 30-32
Palomino/Tbred 35-38
Barton 37-41
Intel
Celeron 20-24
P3 24-26
P4 Willie 26-28
P4 Northie 28-30
These numbers are for pure folding so the more you game and use your PC the lower they'll be. The variation depends on the WU. Some WU's do take a little longer or shorter than others per se in relation to points. Also those AMD numbers are much more accurate than the Intel. As more data comes in those Intel numbers might adjust but for now they are based on what I've observed thus far
We really should look into setting up a reference core. One that could be used for bench marking.