Folding@Home Computer Hope team

[Quantos]

Yes, that's perfect, I'd planned on setting him up with the CPU systray version anyway, your arguments are only making mine stronger.

Keep going, add a few more...

[Calum]

This is what I was looking for, finally found it.
Basically it shows the performance impact of F@H on various benchmarks.  As the hardware used in that is fairly old (they measure a "high end system" with an Athlon XP 2100+ and 512MB RAM, and a medium spec system with a Duron 1.2GHz/256MB RAM) the impact nowadays should actually be lower.
Also these are just benchmarks, so I'd expect "real life" results to show an even lower impact.
Definitely very persuasive with all the charts, if performance is the main concern.

[Quantos]

I bow down and worship....


<flintstones>hola salema.....</flintstones>

[Calum]

Hehe, happy to help.
If it persuades someone else to join the "fold", it's for a great cause.

[harry 48]

can someone tell me how to fold quicker i'm on fahcore _ 7c.exe it use's  90/94 % and it works at 0/1500

[computeruler]

Get a faster computer

[Aegis]

Get a faster computer

Ya think??? 

Gee,who's gonna pay for it???

That's one thing about this site which burns me, sometimes:  the assumption some members make that other members just have money to burn.  Just because life or the economy hasn't hurt them, everyone else must be fine, too.

My laptop computer has become my full time computer.  The only reason I'm still on here, after two processors and at least one board died last year, and I haven't yet been able to replace them, is that I've cobbled together all the remnants I had to keep a desktop working for my spouse.

There's another system in the house which was given to us because the video quit working.  I had an old PCI video card (64 MB RAM) that I slapped into it, and XP said, "Hey, it's old, but I'm gonna run it, anyway."  Not good as new, but good enough.

They're all 2 GHz systems.  I fold on the laptop part time, and sometimes on one of the others.

We are hoping to be able to upgrade at least one of the desktops to dual core in the next month or two...we'll see.

Technology-wise, I'm living off remnants of my former life, when I made a fair amount more money than I make now.

I can't even get close to typing the rest of what I'm thinking. 

[BC_Programmer]

saw that, I agree completely.

If it wasn't for my High School computer Science teacher giving me a 386, a Pentium, and my previous K6-2 PC as well as two laptops; as well as his insistence that I do well in my other classes (which ended up including doing the homework from those classes in his class) I probably would have never graduated on the honour roll... if at all. Because of that, I have had a appreciation for the technology that is in all computers, from a "lowly" 286, to a Quad core Pentium 4. They are all feats of engineering and should be recognized as such.

Additionally, I might point out my recent "flame" regarding obselescence, in which somebody insisted there was a "planned obscelescence" in the industry and that we all "had to" keep up.

Something only becomes obsolete if you let it; my old K6-2 (now redubbed "MEGATRON") still get's used as a mess-around machine, whereas those who only believe in progress without an appreciation for the steps that that progress builds upon would have discarded it

I had an old PCI video card (64 MB RAM) that I slapped into it, and XP said, "Hey, it's old, but I'm gonna run it, anyway."  Not good as new, but good enough.

oh YEAH! Well, I ran XP For 3 years with a 8MB ATI Rage Pro! yeah, that's right! HAHA

although it was an AGP card. Wait, was? I still have it right here. sentimental value.

[computeruler]

I only said that because harry wanted to know how to fold faster.  Its the only way.  Or upgrade a little.

[CBMatt]

That's one thing about this site which burns me, sometimes:  the assumption some members make that other members just have money to burn.  Just because life or the economy hasn't hurt them, everyone else must be fine, too.

Honestly, I think it's just that he's a kid who doesn't really have much of a concept yet for money and how the world works.  I'm sure I probably would've had a similar attitude when I was 13.

I love your signature, by the way.  One of my biggest pet peeves.  "Definitely" has no "a" sound whatsoever.  It's not "definATTly" or "definATEly".  How people can include an "a" is completely beyond me.  It seems like people these days are too dumb to understand root words and relative words.  For example, we say "define" not "defane", so the spelling should be obvious.  Another irksome spelling is "congradulations".  I can almost understand, but come on...people say "congrats" for short, not "congrads"!  Argh.  I'm going to stop here before I really start ranting.

[computeruler]

I was just answering harrys question, jeez.

[Calum]

I hear you all there.
Not to drag the thread further off topic, but the way some people (no one in particular) treat money is ridiculous.  They're just given it and so never learn the value.
I don't want to get on my high horse and say I'm better than anyone else, but I've worked constantly since I was 13, and 99% of what I own I paid for myself.  The other 1% are birthday presents or gifts from better-off family members, my family has never had much money and so I've never been handed everything I wanted on a plate like some people.  I'd like to think that I have some idea of the value of money for those reasons, and so when anyone mentions anything like this I can understand exactly where you're coming from.

To get back to the topic, computeruler is right although he could have phrased it a little better.
The only ways to fold faster are to upgrade your CPU, add a folding-capable graphics card, or fold on more computers.

[harry 48]

Get a faster computer

I only said that because harry wanted to know how to fold faster.  Its the only way.  Or upgrade a little.

I was just answering harrys question, jeez.

i understand your answering my question , but i was looking for a more helpful answer or to tell me i could do nothing at all , i got my pc 5 years ago for my 60th  and the only thing i got was extra memory , we pensioners MUST look after the few pounds we have , unlike young people who get things bought to them .
when i got the pc i new nothing i still know very little compered to the experts here but iv'e learnt so much on here and will still learn , harry

[Aegis]

Computeruler -- I flat out apologize, because I shouldn't have jumped on you so badly.  You made a statement by which I'm sure you didn't mean anything bad.  I was bugged because 95% of the problems on here could be solved by buying a new computer.

I overreacted, and I apologize.

[computeruler]

its ok