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I think I used to get around 6000 PPD with my old 6850, the 5850 ought to at least match that. Just bear in mind it takes some CPU work too, so PPD from simultaneous CPU folding would go down.

Personally I don't think I would be folding on old cards like this, it's pretty inefficient. But maybe that's just the high electricity price in Scandinavia talking.
 
Congrats EXT! I've been away from the forum because this place logs me out and locks me out. :\ This is about the only thread I usually check though. Glad to see everyone folding along.
Also, for those of you that put for CPUs at rest because the PPD sucks, boinic is a great thing to crunch for. It's folding but for CPUs only. (With some exceptions.) I can't tell if TH has a team. Honestly this thread was really hard to find. 😛
 
Yeah, we don't have a team that I know of for boinc. I'm running over at [H]. There are a ridiculous number of projects which is daunting (learning curve) and fun (because of all the cool stuff you get to run) but unfortunately less competitive and focused (definitely a different atmosphere). Pros and cons to everything in life.

This thread is the only one I come to here anymore too. I leave it open in a browser tab and refresh now and then - I probably couldn't find it again without my browser history :lol:
 
T'sH is definitely less friendly to F@H than other more involved websites. Even strange nerd boy's fanclub (Linus Tech Tips) has a better layout in terms of F@H.

BTW, does anybody know any tips to overcome the $58k/year monster that is American college? This doesn't look fun.
 

I can recommend being born in Scandinavia. Free college, plus an automatic stipend of about $900 per month (more if you have children etc).
 
You know what, I'm stuck running F@H in Wine right now. I need bleeding edge versions of many system libraries and a legacy (3.2/3.4) based custom kernel. It's because of some video encoding program I hacked together and a few projects I'm working on, plus the enhancements in beta versions of a few other programs. F@H fails to run with these versions because it expects a version BELOW a certain value. Oh well, it still works nearly as good I guess.

Side note: I should update my profile pic, I have remastered it in much better quality.
 


LOL the Geforce 3 gets 0 PPD, because it cannot be used at all. It has no CUDA or similar API for F@H to use, and I know no way around that. I am using the dual core Pentium D CPU for that purpose, which I got for $8 on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Pentium-3-4Ghz-Fsb800Mhz-Lga775/dp/B000IEO964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427426763&sr=8-1&keywords=pentium+d+dual+core+lga775
This one is very similar except it has no HT capability like mine. I got a magical price for it, same as this. Seems someone is dumping a load of old stock, much to my happiness. "You save 97%!"

Honestly, this old MB isn't too bad besides a failed Ethernet and sound chip. I use a Creative Labs card and Realtek PCI card anyway though, so I never would have used them. I repaired a PSU cooked MB I replaced for someone just for fun, and after replacing countless little parts it lives. I consider this a successful adventure in circuit board design, repair and reverse engineering. I used the bios dev toolkit to put the failed chips into eternal standby, AKA bios never talks to them and they are always in powered off (standby) state, these settings are backed to to the load custom defaults option. It beat my P4 2.4GHZ monocore by far, so the experiment became my daily PC. Shockingly, it's rock solid stable 😀, though the Prescott CPU runs at a cooking 45-60C ALL THE TIME. The dumb fan controller is nonconfigurable and waits till 50C (Cutoff is 65C) to increase speed :fou:. I'm saving for a high end laptop in the future, but this works great for what I normally do. I'm gonna get this to give it the final upgrade: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814187211&cm_re=PCI_GPU-_-14-187-211-_- A GeForce 210 isn't that bad, it still beats most Laptop GPUs.

The PPD it gets is very varied, average 1000-1500, folding set to light.

Glad you asked about my hack job of a PC LOL. It's sure fascinating that it runs. Did I mention it makes a great heater? My room stays 10-15 degrees F warmer, mmmmmmmm cozy. Can't wait till summer haha. :pfff:
 
On the other end of the spectrum, my twin 9800GT's have met their end, so I have replaced them with a single GTX960. The thing is silent and very very powerful. Such a shocking difference when you are used to SLI cards whining at full volume after any kind of work.

As of now, I am too busy and all to run Folding on here. (mostly reading college rejection letters... weep) But maybe if I find the time, I'll set up the PC to do a PPD test.
 



Sorry to hear about those letters but I look forward to seeing those PPD results.
 
@JPN I upgraded from dual 560Ti's to a 970 and my rig went from 'jet engine on take off' to 'is this thing on?'. I do get coil whine on some WUs but overall the difference is great. I now understand why everyone recommends one good GPU over two middling ones.
 
March 31st, Ivy day. Today I end my college application process with not a single acceptance to a private school. Quite a shock considering I applied to like 10.

On a brighter note, has anybody hear heard of UVA Echols? And if not, which, out of UMD, UVA, UCLA, and UCSD sound best for bio stuff?
 
The Echols program sounds interesting and challenging. I think to most employers one state school is the same as another. The main reason to be choosy is if you are looking for a particular major that isn't offered everywhere. Or if you really want to get away from your family. Then 3,000 miles sounds about right. 😀
 
Well, UVA in general is a well regarded school. Really though for undergrad I don't think the name matters too much as long as it is established and accredited in your degree field. Save the 'snob' schools for master's and ph.d 😀

Also, not that it really matters, but f@h is not only at Stanford. One of the major labs in f@h, Dr. Kasson's group, is actually at UVA (I think they are still there).

UCLA, hmm, I think one of my friends went there for his ph.d in a bio related field.

Edit: all of those schools are well regarded really, in general at least. I don't know about bio specifically though.
 
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