Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

i just installed the folding@home program, and now my cpu works at 100% all the time, raising the cpu temperature from 37C to 45C. is this normal? and is it putting a lot of stress on my cpu? and is it going to shorten the life of it drastically?
 
a123 said:
i just installed the folding@home program, and now my cpu works at 100% all the time, raising the cpu temperature from 37C to 45C. is this normal? and is it putting a lot of stress on my cpu? and is it going to shorten the life of it drastically?
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You can always set the CPU percentage you would require down to perhaps 80%. Give that a try. Yes, it is perfectly normal and NO, it will not cause any noticeable decrease in the lifetime of the CPU. Thanks for joining in our team. Greatly appreciated. We all look forward to seeing you on our team's charts.

JAN :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Well since I want us to even better than we are currently doing, I have bought an X1950 Pro (F@H was a significant reason). It should be with me within 3 days. I hope I will be able to help out the team even further :) Go cofo! Go Jan! ...oopz did I just say that?

BTW, as a sidenote, is anyone also getting these 600 pointers? - http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Projects_2400-2499

JAN :D
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I got three p2414 in a row. And I loved them while I had them. :)
 
Grr..., keep getting 2124 or 2108 stuff... still going to be another day and a half... When I get a new WU, I'm going to switch to the console version. (not like I look at the pretty graphics much anyway...)
 
tweaker said:
I thought I'd ask you guys, does the electronic microscope have any other function at all other than monitoring progress? If not I think I'll ditch it. I rarely check it anyway and I don't think I've lost a single WU so far.
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No, it's solely a monitoring program.

Both my cores been under full load 24/7 a few weeks now. A C2D closing in though, then I should be able to advance above 5ft place, up there with you fast & efficient people, well hopefully. :)
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Don't you have an X1900XTX? If so, you could always start folding on that, it should push you up the ranks faster.

BTW, as a sidenote, is anyone also getting these 600 pointers?
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Yes, more often than not, in fact. I've got two of them right now. If you dislike them, there's an option in the setup to not accept large work units.
 
Heya

Guys,

I have just posted an official recruitment round for X1900 / X1950 series graphics card owners. I will start folding using my X1950 Pro tomorrow. Await some serious results.... hopefully :P

JAN :D
 
hey how come you get F@H guru under you name? I want that too....:mad:

jk :)

I wish I had more foldable computers...but all of mine are either new or 15 years old. :(
 
Bobo said:
hey how come you get F@H guru under you name? I want that too....:mad:

jk :)

I wish I had more foldable computers...but all of mine are either new or 15 years old. :(
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And your point is???? Lots of us fold also!!!
You make me want to go back to my old team!!!!!! Where we don't play these dumbass who is first games!!

And if I went back there all of you would be way behind me!!!

Actually because of BOBO I am going back to my old team!!
 
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MyCattMaxx said:
And your point is???? Lots of us fold also!!!
You make me want to go back to my old team!!!!!! Where we don't play these dumbass who is first games!!

And if I went back there all of you would be way behind me!!!

Actually because of BOBO I am going back to my old team!!
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I think the competition is good natured and all for a good cause. Aren't there 5k for cancer runs? :D

So it looks like my GPU is helping my score a lot. How many other ppl are using ATI gpu's or intending to in the near future?
 
I plan on using an Ati X1900 All in wonder once it lowers a bit in price after the 8800GTX comes out.

EDIT: This will be our highest scoring day! New record!!
 
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alright quick question I've got f@h running on my second computer but nothing is getting done! no points no completed anything I'm running the text only one with the monitoring program and I was wondering if its my computers specs are to low?

Processor- AMD Duron 700mhz socket A
Memory- 640mb generic
Motherboard- Ak74-EC Lanparty
Chip- VIA kT133A
Sound Card- Sound Blaster Live!
GPU- ATI Rage 128 32mb agp x2
OS- WIndows XP Pro
directx9c is installed
 
Hmm. It depends. Lord_Of_The_Ming has a P4 2.4 ghz that took 3 weeks to do a 600 point fold, however, my P3 can fold pretty fast. It depends, theoretically it could take a really long time for it to submit a WU, but it also could do it within a few days.
 
To correct Jet, my P4 2.5 is only running at 1/2 load, and we use is a lot for other things. but ya, a 700Mhz will probably fold really slow. GROMACS cores should take probably 1-3 weeks, AMBER cores, maybe 1 week-3 days.

BTW, has anyone here ever gotten a TINKER core fold? I always see them on the project list, but no one I know has ever gotten one.
 
Anyone know how to program something that you can put your current stats like this:

sigimage.php


Ah, I answered my own question:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/?nav=IMAGES

Here's for our team:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?t=44358

I guess this comes across the issue of images in our sigs, but still. And once we get in the top 800 they will track users, so we could have a team box and a user box in your sig if Ian allowed sigs.

NOTE: I am putting this out as a discussion, to see what you all think.
 
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Lord Of The Ming said:
..here ever gotten a TINKER core fold? I always see them on the project list, but no one I know has ever gotten one.
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Strangely, I do get quite a few tinkers. They are painfully slow and do not award me with many points in return. However, I am folding to help, not to score more .. well most of the time :P

P.S.:

As far as the F@H sigs are concerned, I think they are a great idea. I would like to see them implemented but I am not sure if it is possible to do that only for a select few members folding. They do look very nice and most importantly, they are compact and would not distract much.

JAN :D
 
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I agree that perhaps in the future as folding@home gains many more members within the forum, Ian may consider relaxing the rules on sig images, but I think that's something for the future.

As it's a php generated image, that cannot be inserted directly into a signature, a similar thing would have to be implemented to how the extrememfolding graphs are kept updated in the About thread. But that's not undoable.
 
magicman said:
I agree that perhaps in the future as folding@home gains many more members within the forum, Ian may consider relaxing the rules on sig images, but I think that's something for the future.

As it's a php generated image, that cannot be inserted directly into a signature, a similar thing would have to be implemented to how the extrememfolding graphs are kept updated in the About thread. But that's not undoable.
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But I see many people with them in their sigs?
 
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