Who wants to cure disease for team 36362?

New folder here... I used to be part of a small team with a couple friends, but everyone bailed so I decided to join XS.

I'm already in the top 100 (right behind you GAM... watch out ;) ) and expect to be in the top 50 in a couple weeks or less. I currently have my newest machine (E6600 @ 3.4) folding as well as a P4 3.0 Northwood. This Conroe is a beast... I was pumping out some of p1495 at a 1450 ppd clip on one core... too bad I only got a couple of those.

When the PS3 comes out and if its all its hyped up to be, i'll throw one of those on for the team also. Its going to have to put out about 10,000 ppd or more by itself for me to buy one though.

Looks like we've got some new active members on it, so I expect we'll be in the top 100 soon. Keep up the good work guys. :)

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New folder here... I used to be part of a small team with a couple friends, but everyone bailed so I decided to join XS.

I'm already in the top 100 (right behind you GAM... watch out ;) ) and expect to be in the top 50 in a couple weeks or less. I currently have my newest machine (E6600 @ 3.4) folding as well as a P4 3.0 Northwood. This Conroe is a beast... I was pumping out some of p1495 at a 1450 ppd clip on one core... too bad I only got a couple of those.

When the PS3 comes out and if its all its hyped up to be, i'll throw one of those on for the team also. Its going to have to put out about 10,000 ppd or more by itself for me to buy one though.

Looks like we've got some new active members on it, so I expect we'll be in the top 100 soon. Keep up the good work guys. :)

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Rmc, it's on!

I'm very new to folding, never done it before this, so I am still getting used to it all. Made some tweaks here and there, moving directories around getting things all nice and sorted.

Anyway, those ppd figures you mentioned seem incredible. If am talking about the same thing i.e., 'benchmarks' in FAHmon, then the best have on my end is from the e6400 which is 532.79 ppd. Most are 1-200 ppd. So I wouldn't mind some more details on this, please?

I was panicking on XS's behalf until now because I noticed we had slipped back to team rank 111!!! I notice now it's moved again to 108 from the previous 109. Thankfully.

On a side note, I don't know if other have experienced this problem since the server switch but I could not log in. "Max. Failed Login Attempts". I couldn't even get to the forum from the main XS site. I gave my bro my details and he could log straight in. Anyway, it seems the url port or such has changed which totally defeated me. I thought I had been infiltrated. I disconncted everything, changed modems, virus scans etc.... What a nightmare. It was bad enough not having access and getting my 'fix' for two days let alone this when I can see others happily online. Oh well, relieved now that I can get my 'shot' ;)

I was also stunned when I got a Project 1495 WU... It was worth 364 points I think, and I was pumping them out in 6 hours flat (1436 ppd in FahMon) on one core while the other core was busy with some other WUs. Either the Conroe is particularly fast with the calculations in that project, or the points system was messed up, because I don't get nearly that high with other projects.

Currently i'm running a 2411 and a 2124... The 2411 is worth 600 points and is going to end up taking just over 24 hours (595.18 ppd in FahMon). The 2124 is worth 396 points and will take considerably longer... nearly 36 hours I think (233 ppd in FahMon). So the points vary by a lot, and it seems to be luck of the draw with how many points you will get.

On my Northwood I got 2 WUs (2130 and 2143) that will take nearly 13 days each. :( One of them has 50,000,000 steps I believe.

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I was also stunned when I got a Project 1495 WU... It was worth 364 points I think, and I was pumping them out in 6 hours flat (1436 ppd in FahMon) on one core while the other core was busy with some other WUs. Either the Conroe is particularly fast with the calculations in that project, or the points system was messed up, because I don't get nearly that high with other projects.

Currently i'm running a 2411 and a 2124... The 2411 is worth 600 points and is going to end up taking just over 24 hours (595.18 ppd in FahMon). The 2124 is worth 396 points and will take considerably longer... nearly 36 hours I think (233 ppd in FahMon). So the points vary by a lot, and it seems to be luck of the draw with how many points you will get.

On my Northwood I got 2 WUs (2130 and 2143) that will take nearly 13 days each. :( One of them has 50,000,000 steps I believe.

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Completed a 2411-528.98ppd avg. Don't remember how long it took, but from memory it was quick compared with others.
Looks like we have similar setups:
-Allendale a6400 @ 3.2 - 2 cores when I don't need performance, like now (avg 12hrs a day)
-Prescott @ 3.0 - 2 threads 24/7 mostly.
-D805 @ 2.66 - 1 core 18/7

I might pip you though with the D805 (htpc) which I am only running one core at a time until I can fix the cooling/noise issues. It's made up of spare parts and a crap AU$40 case that sings with the crap fans ;) Also crap HSF (see sig). Running stock and even so 2 cores push it straight to 67c and starts to throttle and make a 'helluva' racket in the living room ;)

ps. Congats, you've hit 100! :toast:

:wave: Welcome Rmc[AZ] :wave: Nice rigs you guys, enjoy battling your way up the charts :D

GAM, I've got an AC Freezer 7 Pro on my 805 (with the same mobo as you too) & it's at 3.6Ghz iirc & pretty quiet, I forget the load temps but it's a good cooler for little cash. Got one on my e6300 too.

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:wave: Welcome Rmc[AZ] :wave: Nice rigs you guys, enjoy battling your way up the charts :D

GAM, I've got an AC Freezer 7 Pro on my 805 (with the same mobo as you too) & it's at 3.6Ghz iirc & pretty quiet, I forget the load temps but it's a good cooler for little cash. Got one on my e6300 too.

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Thanks for the tip, jimwah! I can get one of those at a local place down the road too. This is way off topic, so I apologise... but the Zalman FS-C77 Fatality is a way overpriced piece of dog doo. (bought in haste :( ) I was thinking the stock cooler probably performs better, but then it did do a reasonable job on the E6400 for a few weeks, so the case cooling and D805 combo does have a bit to do with it.

Back on topic: We got a long ways to go yet to catch you jimwah!!! ;) (You don't display details in your sig so I had to look you up - Ranked 12th with 70k+... nice!)

If I get a chance later I'll check out my 805 under some load later & PM you the kind of temps I'm getting, it just does a bit of gaming at the moment. Best thing about the AC7's is the mounting, pretty much the same as the stock coolers.

Keep on folding, now's your chance to make some progress on me - my resources are diverted for the near future on another XS project, don't :slapass: me too bad, I'll be back soon - I've gotta catch sc00p @ 170k somehow :eek:

hehe :D 4k to 70k or even 140k is no contest ;)

[edit] I just realised, you ARE showing your stats. I didn't even realise that that sig showed multiple stats :slap:

Dropped to 101... lol. Oh well, i'll have at least 996 points coming in tomorrow. :)

Once you get that 805 running full steam you will be tough to beat for sure. ;)

I was wondering if there are any real stats out there as to exactly how fast the PS3 or a given ATI card will fold at as compared to the standard client. It says on the FAQ that both of them should be able to achieve 100 GFLOPS, but this means nothing to me as I have no idea how many GFLOPS im putting out right now... I'm trying to get an idea of how much getting a PS3 will increase my production. Any info would be appreciated. :)

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Dropped to 101... lol. Oh well, i'll have at least 996 points coming in tomorrow. :)

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Just gained another 702pts ;) Ranked 87! :p:

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Once you get that 805 running full steam you will be tough to beat for sure. ;):)

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Maaaate, this is what we need... SOME PLAYFUL COMPETITION!!! :D (well, i'll speak for myself, anyway)

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I was wondering if there are any real stats out there as to exactly how fast the PS3 or a given ATI card will fold at as compared to the standard client. It says on the FAQ that both of them should be able to achieve 100 GFLOPS, but this means nothing to me as I have no idea how many GFLOPS im putting out right now... I'm trying to get an idea of how much getting a PS3 will increase my production. Any info would be appreciated. :)

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Good question.

Also, will my 7600gt/7600gs be able to contribute?

Most of the recent posts in the folding forum have strayed off-course onto the subject of GPU folding, have a sift through. I think we came to the aggrement that ATi 1x00 cards were likely to be the only ones eligable for now I'm afraid GAM.

In terms of production, the folding capability is gonna be very impressive, quite how Stanford will award points for these cards will be interesting to see; could be depressing for others if ATi card owners start soaring up the charts (less depressing for me 'cos I have 1900GT ;) ). I'll stop now & try to avoid hijacking another thread :slapass:

My fears come true. Always been an nVidia advocate. :(

welcome Rmc[AZ] :wave:

Well guys I have another system folding now, a celeron 2.5GHz I patched back together (mobo + PSU replacement). It is on its first WU - 2134, 381 points, 12%, 4 days left. Amazing how much faster my 3700+ @ 2.86 GHz is, it crunches that same WU in half that time.

This now makes a total of 6 CPUs crunching for XS :toast:

This is such an addiction now but I have no money to spend on some "real" folding systems :( O well, 6 systems isn't bad for someone who has no money, even if half of them aren't the fastest things around :)

Way to go SparkyJJO! :toast:

This whole place screams addiction. I was having withdrawals while the site was down :slobber:

ps. I've tweaked my avatar, you like?

Glad to see more people folding for 36362. :D You guys/gals make me so da*n proud to be apart of XS (yet another reason). :toast:

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Glad to see more people folding for 36362. :D You guys/gals make me so da*n proud to be apart of XS (yet another reason). :toast:

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Just leaped you buddy ;) Get that pride workin' and kick some cores into gear. We gotta' break 100!

That applies to all 36362 members, more cores/threads/hours!!!

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Way to go SparkyJJO! :toast:

This whole place screams addiction. I was having withdrawals while the site was down :slobber:

ps. I've tweaked my avatar, you like?

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Same here. I have a button at the top of firefox for XS to make it easily accessible and I kept clicking it all that night and the next day muttering "please please please......!" I couldn't stand it :p:

Nice tweak! :thumbsup:

Wow looking at your stats at that rate you're gonna pass me here in not much time. Gotta get more CPUs going.... *digs through parts*

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Subtle tweak, looks good GAM :)

Keep the competition up guys, good to see new members gettin bitten by the DC bug :wtf:

Slipped into the 92nd spot... and GAM's avatar change spurred me to change mine as well...

Essentially for the next week and a half I will only be running my Core 2 Duo machine as my P4 is busy doing 2 work units that won't finish for 12-13 more days... unfortunately I keep getting massive work units that take forever to finish... i'm not liking the -advmethods option so far. I got two of the same large WU's on my P4 and my Core 2 Duo... p2133 I believe. P4 will take nearly 2 weeks... the Core 2 Duo will take 2 days!

Rmc[AZ] (please spell out the pronunciation for your username, I have trouble everytime I read it. Slows my brain down :hm: If you tell me how to say it, my efficiency will improve) [edit - :slap: I just worked it out. Doh. Rmc of Arizona!!! Don't know what 'Rmc' stands for, but that doesn't matter so much anymore]

:up: Way to fold mate! There's some softies around the 100, eh? Not trying to take anything away from you (or them, sounding like a bit of a-hole, sorry), but I seemed to slip through those 10 or so pos' in a couple of days too. Tells me there's some stagnation there. Folders! :trumpets:

Re proc. performance, my P4e takes a hell of a lot longer to process too. I dropped the -advmethods just yesterday (or was that this morning :confused: ). It just finished a 4096/159pts after 4 days on one thread. I also reinstated an initial WU from an original dir location from 14-Sep and it's not due until 1-Oct (2057/159pts). The performance of this 6400 over these older P4s (and the d805 too for that matter) is very significant.
[edit: 12-13 days! :eek: wtf? Something's wrong there isn't right? Experts?]

Great avatar! Love your work.;) Quite nicely present compared to my subtle one (intentional, but I did want it a little 'less' subtle-will revisit again one day ;) ).


Guys/Gals (first couple anyway, I'll tire after that), give me a pic and a protein sample and I will try and weave some magic while I procrastinate over my next guide and mod research.

Folders!!! :trumpets:

ps. sorry for rambling :slapass:

Hey'ya everyone... I'm able to post again at forums :rolleyes:
This is 6th machine I'm trying and yes... I felt lucky and what a success :rolleyes:
Not able to log in at home or work :rolleyes: (everything tried-> wrong password comes everytime :rolleyes: )
So wisiting my sister was worthfull in many ways (and almost last hope :rolleyes:)... means then not going to post too much for now on... as the distance to my sister's is a bit long :rolleyes:

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Hey'ya everyone... I'm able to post again at forums :rolleyes:
This is 6th machine I'm trying and yes... I felt lucky and what a success :rolleyes:
Not able to log in at home or work :rolleyes: (everything tried-> wrong password comes everytime :rolleyes: )
So wisiting my sister was worthfull in many ways (and almost last hope :rolleyes:)... means then not going to post too much for now on... as the distance to my sister's is a bit long :rolleyes:

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Heya sc00p, if you haven't already, check this thread and make necessary corrections: http://xtremesystems.org:16080/forum...d.php?t=117329

Basically, open port 16080! (at least until it is fixed or decided to be kept as it is)

Thought you'd been quiet man ;) Shame about the problems, I couldn't get in for a while today when I cleared cookies & somehow exceeded my login attempt count :shrug: YGPM

Mates... :)

You are the most appreciated guys on earth if that was it...

...but somehow not feeling too lucky... I was trying to log in at home "pants down" (=every phucking firewalls down-> not working :( )

Oh well... sisters machine IS a wormbox... haven't ever heard about firewalls LOL

Trust me here, open port 16080 and use this address to login (bin' there and dunnit... now hairless and poorer): http://xtremesystems.org:16080/forums/index.php

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Trust me here, open port 16080 and use this address to login (been there and dunnit... now hairless and poorer): http://xtremesystems.org:16080/forums/index.php

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OK... starting to believe :D

Don't now when back home... if it's tomorrow (friday) and I got it kicking alive... I will need first :hitself: and then secondly several :toast2: and third maybe it's wise (or obliged) to quiet down :hm:. Today gonna "spam" as hell :toast: like last day left for life ;) j/k


Wan't to say... it's very nice to have you GAM at forums. You bring liveliness here, very much welcomed thing. Keep it going.

Then welcome Rmc[AZ] (went that right from my memory?). It's almost crucial to have some friendly competiveness amongst folders for the success it brings to our team, down the line:)

@jimwah my mate... noticed I'm flying at stats with some orange, second highest ppd/24avg at team :fact: You're not going to overtake me "soon enough"... you go and spread machines... too much;) J/k again... almost every dcing is worthy... but you know how biased I am :D (and grazy:rofl: )

@sparkyJJO... if you would know what kind of crap machines I'm folding with you'd be suprised... so every piece of equipment is not for looking down. Grab it and fire it up. Well that goes for every folder at team 36362:guitar:

Last thing at this post:
this livelyness at f@h_ forums bring right on warmth breeze to heart... jimwah knows that how I've had bad days... so great dcing project and great forums but this section been so quiet :confused:
I really hope there has been change for better for good :rocker: (not to give any pressure to anybody ;))

Been always proud to be member of this team... now more than ever :cool:
(I'm babling I know LOL)

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@jimwah my mate... noticed I'm flying at stats with some orange, second highest ppd/24avg at team :fact: You're not going to overtake me "soon enough"... you go and spread machines... too much;) J/k again... almost every dcing is worthy... but you know how biased I am :D (and grazy:rofl: )

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I noticed that too mate - very sexy graph you have at the moment, up, up & away well into the orange :D Make the most of it friend 'cos I will be back - with a vengeance !1!!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68..._Vengeance.jpg

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I noticed that too mate - very sexy graph you have at the moment, up, up & away well into the orange :D Make the most of it friend 'cos I will be back - with a vengeance !1!!

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:eek: Smells like team spirit :D
The race is on :toast: :sonic: :up: :fight:
If I go :nuts: and by some new stuff soon :woot: (because you might run me into it :slap: :D )

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@sparkyJJO... if you would know what kind of crap machines I'm folding with you'd be suprised... so every piece of equipment is not for looking down. Grab it and fire it up. Well that goes for every folder at team 36362:guitar:

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Yeah I might just fire up that old VIA 650MHz CPU, at least it could work on some of those small WU's until I get a faster functional s370 intel CPU. I got a 900MHz P3 for it but the CPU is apparently bad, it won't POST :(

After all, I gotta keep crunching more and more if I want to keep a few certain members here from passing me :banana:

I realized I have -advmethods flag AND BigWUs set on my 750MHz P3 :eek: It got a work unit over a week ago and is still working on it with about 10 days left :rolleyes: It'll complete well before the preferred deadline (November sometime) but still it doesn't do much for my PPD

Maybe my mum doesn't need my old old p4s8sx/p4 2.53 after all ;) (Sitting in a box of parts waiting to be put back together)

ps. Server/URL/Port issue seems to be rectified. Just I had to log in using the old url, sans :16080

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...JJO/VIACPU.jpg

I knew that VIA CPU's were slow but I guess this explains why. No L2 cache! I don't know how they can claim it is comparable in performance to an intel 1GHz. Outright lie I tell you :slap:

I thought maybe this CPU could do some small WUs but without any L2 cache is it even possible? :confused:
Maybe I'll put win98 on this system and use it for a DOS box for old PC games... Heck I don't even know if this CPU could do that :p:

I'm tempted to say... forget that Samuel LOL...
...maybe it's good playing Solitaire and other games that comes with windows.

BTW Nice work GAM: whole xs community has to thank you resolving the prob with log in/ports :)

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I'm tempted to say... forget that Samuel LOL...
...maybe it's good playing Solitaire and other games that comes with windows.

BTW Nice work GAM: whole xs community has to thank you resolving the prob with log in/ports :)

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Thanks Mate! But even diligently keeping an eye out for new posts about the issue, I've noticed today that I missed a few ;)

BTW Folding will reduce this weekend, I have a heap of new toys and mods to do on all three machines!!! :woot:

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I'm tempted to say... forget that Samuel LOL...
...maybe it's good playing Solitaire and other games that comes with windows.

BTW Nice work GAM: whole xs community has to thank you resolving the prob with log in/ports :)

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ya I'm thinking the same thing. Until I get a CPU for this thing I'm not even gonna try running F@H on it.

I don't think I'll even use it for a DOS box actually, the onboard video sucks to the point that there is some aweful noise in the video, like a TV channel not tuned in right or something.... ick

Maybe I'll look for a whole different mobo/CPU combo for it. Maybe :bsod: the old parts, or run that CPU with no HSF and see if it :smoke: somehow I doubt that it has any thermal protection on it if it doesn't even have L2 cache :lol2:

Good work helping with the port problems GAM, glad the 16080 has gone now; let us konw how the modding goes ;)

@SparkyJJO that Samuel does look pretty weak :p: I rarely say it but...that CPU is useless! I'd ship you some of my socket 370 kit if it wouldn't cost me more than its worth, I've got ~2gig of PC133 & about 5ghz of old chips sat around here!

I'd be interested to see if the via even gets hot enough to toast itself, or if it has thermal protection of any kind - doubt it. Have fun torturing it :D

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ya I'm thinking the same thing. Until I get a CPU for this thing I'm not even gonna try running F@H on it.........

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I have a socket 370 intel 800eb chip and I live close to you.Pm me and we can work something out.

78... :wiggle:

dang it, fold3 is down, I just got it up a couple days ago too :( Been running fine then all of a sudden today it froze twice and rebooted once. I think it may be the generic PSU in there but I can't test it until after the weekend (to borrow a DMM from school's lab).
Software sensors are crap, they read +12V @ 4V, +5V @ 2V - you get the idea. Temp sensors I don't know if they are accurate at all, the CPU one maxes out at about 48-49*C but the mobo sensor is all over the place, 58*C one second 23*C the next and anywhere in between.

Running SP2004 right now, I reseated RAM and power on the mobo, if it tests out I'll reactivate F@H but until then it makes no sense to keep crashing it.

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I just rolled into 83rd, and got another fast p1495 coming up... (6 hour fold.) Watch your back... ;) :p:

@SparkyJJO... too bad about your folding box... hopefully you get it back up soon. :)

hello,

I havent done any folding before but I was reading about it and I would like to get involved.

Still upgrading my current pc but right now its running a presler @ 3.9. would it help the team if I joined?

I am not sure how often I could keep it running but I am guessing something around 8 to 10 hours a day.

thanks in advance
hoax

hello hoax
of course, it would help the team. Every CPU counts :) Well, aside from crappy ones like that VIA samuel I have :lol2:

Hello SparkyJJO,

Thanks for the reply. So can I start folding? I already downloaded the application, but I dont want to start until you guys tell me its ok.

thanks
hoax

Certainly, you don't really need our permission to do so

Sorry, I was worried about joining since I never done it before. But its now running, I just need to learn how to tweak it.

Thanks for the help
hoax

@Rmc, :shock2:,
Hey... Rmc! What's that there, up ahead of you.... :moon:
...oh yeah, it's me :hehe:

Bring it on, buddy, this is a good weekend to catch up ;) ...oh, and btw, :wtf:

@Spark'sta, mate... You're safe, don't worry, take it easy... :hehe: You don't need to stress yourself with that old thing. ;)

@hoax, sorry buddy, please don't mind my antics. I am having fun with these guys.

Welcome to the TEAM! :thumps:
That presler is going to contribute heaps. (Way more that some things some other people here are desperately scrounging togehter :horse:
I'm new to folding too. It's all for a good cause, it's fun, it's additive and most importantly, it's contributing something back to society for the benefit of everyone... Do it! Do it! (think current Starsky and Hutch movie ;).)


On another note, shopping all morning (screws, bolts, nuts, bits n bobs) :D, then sidetracked by AFL Grand Final... we lost. :(
So, no mod'gress today :shrug:

Hey hoax & welcome :wave:

Remember to enter the team number 36362 to contribute the points to our team. It's pretty safe just to keep the default configuration at the moment, from what I read some of the tweaks are getting worse work units in general.

Shame about the celery rig dying SparkyJJO, sounds like it's either the PSU freaking out or maybe the motherboard...hope its just the PSU man. Good luck getting it sorted.

:eek2: Holly sh:banana::banana: Rmc[AZ]! I just checked stats, you're currently at 78! (me 76) Only about 300 pts behind me! :nuts: :brick:

:wtf: man!

What have you recruited to the cause?

[edit: I just went desperatley seeking 'unsent WU's'. No luck :( Another 300 might slip through today, but then nothing for another day or two.]

Hello GAM and jimwah,

Thanks a lot for the warm welcome! I have it running for team 36362 but I still need to figure out how to run two instances of it.

I will do as you suggest and keep the settings at default for now.

One question that I have.. Is it possible to do a local network with the rest of my pcs just for folding? like just get a hub to share my connection (I dont have a router), and send the information locally to each other... then have just one pc send it over the internet? I can add 2 more pcs to this (and a g5 if they have folding on macs:confused:)

would it work?

and on a really happy side note... the E6800x I ordered has just arrived today! now I just need to wait for a few more parts and the team gets a new conroe!

thanks again
hoax

Good news :) I tore down and rebuilt fold3 and cleaned a whole bunch of junk off the IHS and heatsink. I got a ton of this dark gray gunk off and the sink and IHS got all nice and shiny again. After putting it all back together it has been priming for the past 2 1/2 hours no problems so far! This is good, yesterday it wouldn't even make it half that long.

Hopefully we'll be back up and running again soon :woot:

@ GAM: Should be ahead of you at the next update. :) My recent points have been ALL E6600... got 3 or 4 p1495's to help me out.

@ hoax: Welcome to the team! In order to run two instances, you will need to be running the console version of the program and not the one with the fancy spinning balls. If you have the GUI version installed, I recommend uninstalling it first. Then make a couple of folders somewhere, such as Folding@Home1 and Folding@Home2... download the console version of the client (Windows XP/NT/2000 No Nonsense version) and put a copy of the .exe in each of the folders.

Next go to Start, Run, and type in the path to the first .exe (For example, "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home1\FAH504-Console.exe") and append these two options afterwards: -local and -configonly. So, it will look like this: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home1\FAH504-Console.exe -local -configonly Press enter and the program will run, and it wil allow you to configure. Type in username and press Enter, team 36362 and press enter, etc. After you are done configuing, the program will exit. Run the program again, except without the -configonly option, and the program should start crunching. Repeat these exact same steps for the other copy of the client, and you should be good to go.

As for the local network... if you would like to run more PCs (Which would be awesome :) ) I recommend picking up a cheap router: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833124001 Or if your computers are spread out a wireless router instead. This is the only way as far as I know that you will be able to share your connection and do folding on all your machines.

As for the G5, yes they do have a folding program for OS X... its at the bottom of the downloads page here. If you have a dual G5 or whatever, I recommend downloading the console version and following the same steps as above to get the most out of your G5.

Happy folding, welcome to the team, and if you have any questions we are here to help. :)

@hoax, one more thing on Rmc's instructions. Make sure you enter different Machine IDs. i.e., For first and second instance, Machine Id 1 then 2, respectively.

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@hoax, one more thing on Rmc's instructions. Make sure you enter different Machine IDs. i.e., For first and second instance, Machine Id 1 then 2, respectively.

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@ GAM: Should be ahead of you at the next update. :) My recent points have been ALL E6600... got 3 or 4 p1495's to help me out.
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You bugger ;) (Good on you though!)

I've got mostly <200's folding at the moment. Hmph :(

:cussing: ...got to get that d805 folding at full potential! Hopefully will have that resolved by the weekend.

[edit: @Rmc, sigs updated, you're already ahead of me and all I can see in front of me is :moon:. Only this time it's not me :(. You got some excellent 24hr Avg going there. Well done. btw, we got to watch out, hoax will be on our tails soon too if he gets that LAN and those machines up and running.

Wow... 1,692 points just today... just on my Core 2 Duo system! Amazing... I consider it a great deal of luck though with those p1495 work units.

Had a strange problem though... i'm running at 3.4 on air cooling doing constant folding for over 5 days now... and then my system had a random reboot. :( It rebooted and I got things going again. But now the folding is going about 2x as slow as before. It is still at 3.4 GHz so I don't know what the issue is. I'm hoping it will iron itself out with the next bacth of WUs.

Anyway i'll be able to run non-stop for another 5 days or so but then I have to give it a rest and do some video encoding for a day or two. You'll have a chance to catch back up GAM. ;)

Hello Rmc[AZ],

thanks a lot for the warm welcome, and for the great instructions. I just finished installing the console version and apparently its now really eating all my cpu :thumbsup:

I took a screenshot just to make sure things look the way they were supposed to: http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...li/folding.jpg

One thing I dont understand yet....If I stop the program before a WU is completed do I lose the frames that were already processed? or can I restart at anytime and not lose work?

I am gonna go pick up one of those routers this week. I have to pick it up locally tho (brazil here) but it shouldnt be a problem. Then I can get the g5 folding. Its a dual so I will try the console version on it too as you suggest.

And GAM.. thanks again for the help. Its really appreciated. I know you guys have a really healthy "competition" going on(for lack of a better word)...but dont worry about me catching up anytime soon...will be at least a month until the conroe is up and running...

thanks a lot for all the help...

cheers
hoax

ps - where do you guys check the points and stuff?

Looking good... looks like you've got it set up right. :)

If you wish to pause the program you can press Ctrl+C... the program will exit. When you start it back up it will be about where you left off, if not a couple frames behind.

When you pick up the router, don't forget to pick up as many CAT5 cables as you need to connect your computers. :)

I like to check my points here: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=36362 Click "Team Users List" on the left to find yourself in the rankings for our team. You will only be on there after your first WU is complete, and after that site does an update (They update every 3 hours.) You can also check out their awesome signature images and include one in your signature as well (after your first results are posted on there.)

You can also check points on the official site: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=36362 Again, you will only be displayed after you complete your first WU. Their stats are updated hourly.

Hello Rmc[AZ],

Thanks a lot for the once again extremelly helpfull reply.

I am still not on the extremeoverclocking list but I am on the official list with my first complete WU: :D
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...iali/foldh.jpg


the one thing I am still worried about tho... how important is bandwith for multiple machines folding? my connection is really crappy (256k DSL). if its all about cpu then I will definetly get the router, but if internet speed is also important I may have some problems..

thanks for all the help
hoax

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btw, we got to watch out, hoax will be on our tails soon too if he gets that LAN and those machines up and running.

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I was about point that out to you... but then got busy :D

So this is :welcome: to hoax.

Duck an run (up at the stats) is one strategy. There are :lsfight: everywhere :p: I'm little shaky already about jimwah that comes at full-steam with us. I should make some supreme finnish defence forces against his vengeance :eh:

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Originally Posted by Rmc[AZ]

Wow... 1,692 points just today... just on my Core 2 Duo system! Amazing... I consider it a great deal of luck though with those p1495 work units.

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That is amazing :slobber:

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Had a strange problem though... i'm running at 3.4 on air cooling doing constant folding for over 5 days now... and then my system had a random reboot. :( It rebooted and I got things going again. But now the folding is going about 2x as slow as before. It is still at 3.4 GHz so I don't know what the issue is. I'm hoping it will iron itself out with the next bacth of WUs.

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Did you really wait for a couple of % after that reboot. The ETA is a bit inaccurate at starts and after pauses. Wierd I say. Hope nothing fatal has happened.

I think I am going crazy. I thought I posted already but I don't see it. :confused:

@Rmc, has your performance settled okay? I hope your rig is right.
1692! Wow. :worship:
Btw, I'll appreciate the breather coming up :), although I do have another 1000+ coming overnight, so try not to slack off... ;)

@sc00p, are you aware of any graphs/stats on a user/team daily/weekly performance? For instance, graph of 24hr averages or 'total today' by user and team.

Hoax,

Your on the extreme stats list here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...s=&t=36362&p=2

Regards

John.

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Good news :) I tore down and rebuilt fold3 and cleaned a whole bunch of junk off the IHS and heatsink. I got a ton of this dark gray gunk off and the sink and IHS got all nice and shiny again. After putting it all back together it has been priming for the past 2 1/2 hours no problems so far! This is good, yesterday it wouldn't even make it half that long.

Hopefully we'll be back up and running again soon :woot:

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Nice work Sparky - hope its back on & folding like a good'un again ;) I've finally got round to re-boxing my DX rig thats been sat here doing nothing for too long - it's in a wee little case so I expect it to be hot but having a machine that can hack 4x fah clients is too good to leave unused :D It should be back on & folding with a Vengeance tonight.

Also, on the subject of stats - free-DC.org have a great site for all things DC, the updates are slightly skewed compared to EOC's pages so expect some slightly different readings, but nonetheless here they are (with the infamous pie charts :) ) for our fah team:

http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamsta...emesystems.org

btw, hoax bandwidth shouldn't really be a problem since the WU take less than a minute or two to download/upload on my 1mb dsl line here.

What is going on!

I ran prime95 for several hours no trouble, so I put fold3 back online. Ran all night, no problem. This morning it was still chugging away, good. I left and just got back and the system was frozen again :mad: Looking at logfile the last checkpoint it did was at about 11AM today before it froze up.

Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? CPU primes fine, memtest turns up no errors.... I'm at my wits end with this thing.

@ sc00p: thanks for the warm welcome! hehe that supreme finnish defence looks deadly :eek:

@ pythagoras: thanks for the link

@ jimwah: guess my connection should work then, thanks for the info

@ sparkjjo: hope you can get that rig fixed soon!

thanks a lot everyone
hoax

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What is going on!

I ran prime95 for several hours no trouble, so I put fold3 back online. Ran all night, no problem. This morning it was still chugging away, good. I left and just got back and the system was frozen again :mad: Looking at logfile the last checkpoint it did was at about 11AM today before it froze up.

Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? CPU primes fine, memtest turns up no errors.... I'm at my wits end with this thing.

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Check your event logs for any clues. You might have some other background process, like a virus scan for instance, that's kicking in and causing the lockup.

@jimwah, thanks for the link. Still looking for something that focuses more on historical data though.

@Rmc, ha hmm... 71 (pipped you by 8pts) :wasntme:
[edit: there won't be anything more for another 1-2days though :(, so I reckon you're pretty safe for the time being. ;)]

@hoax, there is also a config setting for 'large WU's' that you can enable/disable during configuration.

Launch console configuration via the 'Run' box with the -configonly option (ie., your F@Hpath\FAH504-Console.exe -configonly). Then answer the prompts (press Enter to accept the defaults which should be your existing settings shown in []) but set the 'accept large WU's >5MB ' (or something like that) option to 'No' to keep the physical size of the WU's down. I believe this option is intended for slower connections (although I think your 256k connection should be fine).

I am not sure what other impacts this has on the WU's you process though, as far as the points/bonus points and the like goes. A veteran here maybe able to provide more info on that one.

Nothing in the events, and there is no AV software or anything like that to start up. Just XP SP1 and F@H, that's it.

Well it froze again after restarting it. Something isn't right but I don't know what it would be. Going to have to keep troubleshooting I guess.

@ GAM: thanks a lot for the reply. I am gonna try to pick up the router tomorrow or tuesday and then we can find out how my connection will handle the large WUs, but from what you are saying I think it should be ok too.

cheers
hoax

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Nothing in the events, and there is no AV software or anything like that to start up. Just XP SP1 and F@H, that's it.

Well it froze again after restarting it. Something isn't right but I don't know what it would be. Going to have to keep troubleshooting I guess.

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Don't want to assume too much, nor do I think I can really help you as I'm sure you know as much or more about these things as me, but... any overclocking, installed any updates, new hardware, etc since it was last running problem free?

Nothing different at all. It was only up and running 2-3 days before it started acting up.

Well I turned it on again and left for the evening. This time I disabled the onboard sound and I just came back and it is still running. Don't know if that means anything but it sure would be nice if it was something to do with that. No need to have the sound chip enabled anyway on a dedicated folding machine.

We'll see what happens, hopefully in a day or two I can borrow a DMM to make sure voltages are stable.

*EDIT*
Currently 12:45 AM (yeah I'm a night owl :D) and fold3 has been running flawlessly for the past 6 hours :woot: But then, it ran fine all last night as well, so I'm still not sure about it.

Keep troubleshooting mate, you'll get there; are the sensors reading sensible values now, what model of board is it based on?

On the subject of BigWU option, I put four clients on the xeon last night - it only has 256mb in there at the moment :eek: so I left 3xclients with the defaults options and they picked up project 18xx's, these look fairly small as they're 33% complete after ~12hrs.

The client with BigWU enabled tried 3 servers before it picked up one of those 24xx's, iirc these are the nasties at ~360pts, or are they the 600pts I forget?

@GAM - you do get a bit of historical data if you click on your username - btw you have a nice looking 'Upcoming Conquests' chart here :D But it only goes back to around the start of September, similar to EOC's.

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...The client with BigWU enabled tried 3 servers before it picked up one of those 24xx's, iirc these are the nasties at ~360pts, or are they the 600pts I forget?

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I haven't studied the facts, but I feel the ~360's are the nasties. I've had heaps lately and they seem to take longer. :confused:

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@GAM - you do get a bit of historical data if you click on your username - btw you have a nice looking 'Upcoming Conquests' chart here :D But it only goes back to around the start of September, similar to EOC's.

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You should have seen the smile on my fast when I started to appreciate those graphs :D (the smiley doesn't do it justice)

That's perfect jimwah, thank you. :)

If anyone else is interested, just exchange your username with my username ('GAM') in the the following:

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http://stats.free-dc.org/new/userstats.php?proj=fah&name=GAMxtremesystems.org

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I have prepared some examples, for instance;
- http://stats.free-dc.org/new/usersta...emesystems.org
- http://stats.free-dc.org/new/usersta...emesystems.org
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:hehe: sorry if I left anyone out, but there are people here that are currently beyond my scope ;) (...got my hand's full here as it is... Rmc... hoax... ;))

@Rmc, the graphs don't quite paint the picture that I'd like to see. ;) :wtf:

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Originally Posted by GAM

@sc00p, are you aware of any graphs/stats on a user/team daily/weekly performance? For instance, graph of 24hr averages or 'total today' by user and team.

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Free-DC's stats are too slow (and buggish) at time to time IMO, but graphs are illustrative enough :)

You can do estimates at eoc stats also like this and just keep clicking ahead there you could find some data but no pies for anyone :( :D

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Originally Posted by sc00p

Free-DC's stats are too slow (and buggish) at time to time IMO, but graphs are illustrative enough :)

You can do estimates at eoc stats also like this and just keep clicking ahead there you could find some data but no pies for anyone :( :D

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I just noticed the bugginess ;)
Thanks for the other links, they're great too. When I have a chance I'll explore them further. Cheers Sc00p :)

btw, my HTPC (D805) machine froze last night. Only one instance has been running, either a 2024 or 2198. Funny thing though, I can't restart the other instance either... Timeout. :confused:

Hmm OK I just tested the volts on the PSU. The 12V line is at 11.87V, the 5V line is at 5.2V, and the 3.3V line is at 3.43V. Not the greatest but not aweful either. Hmm.

anyone tried folding with x1900 yet?

I know why this thread has gone all quiet... everyone's playing with their 'ATI' GPU's!!! ;)

Hey guys, I've got the following options set on my E6400 machine but I still keep getting these little 153pointers that seem take an inordinate amount of time to complete!

-svcstart -local -advmethods -forceasm -verbosity 9

Shouldn't '-advmethods' elliminate these? Or have I misunderstood something here.

I have four WU's due for completion late today (next 18hrs or so), each at 153pts!

@eXa, look here: http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=118000

@Rmc, man, I keep getting these pissy little WU's that take forever. I got no hope of catching you at this rate. Damn!

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I know why this thread has gone all quiet... everyone's playing with their 'ATI' GPU's!!! ;)

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Guilty :D

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Guilty :D

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I know! ;) All my new buddies are over there. I've been reading with dissapointment. :( Feeling very left out over here. :sob: :sob:.

I know I could go out and buy a new ATI card, but that just isn't feasible at the moment (spending too much on mods and other minor upgrades, like quietening and fitting out the new HTPC :) [which HAS to be fixed to catch that Roadrunner, Rmc!]

:hehe: Don't feel too left out mate, the GPU client is causing a lot of headaches for quite a few people - could be a while before all the bugs are ironed out, I'd rather have your e6400 folding for me at teh moment...at least I know what's going on with the CPU client :D

For one thing the GPU client requires a whole CPU core also, which means I have to shut down FAH on my CPU. Not sure if I like that, I was hoping for both. Actually the GPU client runs my CPU more (higher temps) than the CPU client does which seems really odd.

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@Rmc, man, I keep getting these pissy little WU's that take forever. I got no hope of catching you at this rate. Damn!

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Haha, don't worry, I don't think i'll have any more points coming in today. Got some long WUs that will be done tomorrow and Thursday. :)

Ahhhhh.... feeling comforted again :D Thanks guys.

@Rmc, your points in a couple of days will probably be significant. 600pts for two days is not. I might jump ahead for a moment and bam... Rmc leaps ahead again ;)

@Sparky/Jimwah, I've noticed the headaches people are having and I am surprised about having to dedicate a core/thread to the GPU client. A bit defeatest, eh. I'm sure that will get ironed in the near future though, maybe by the time I get an ATI card ;)

Cheers Guys.

ps. Modding headaches. Dying to post some progress pics but still no attachments allowed for the moment. Bummer.
Also, I plan on remounting the HSF on the D805 today. I'll let you know if I successfully get those temps down and can run BOTH cores!

I guess the thing that gets me the most is how the GPU client works the CPU harder than the CPU client does :shrug:

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ps. Modding headaches. Dying to post some progress pics but still no attachments allowed for the moment. Bummer.

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Get yourself an account on photobucket or imageshack or something similar, then you can throw the url to the pic in some [img][/img] tags :)

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Get yourself an account on photobucket or imageshack or something similar, then you can throw the url to the pic in some [img][/img] tags :)

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I appreciate the suggestion, thanks Jimwah. You're right, of course, but I'm too lazy basically. I have my own host and webspace, but I until I create the 'guide' to go with it, I can't be bothered. Silly, I know. You've incouraged me though ;)

:rolleyes: Okay, I pulled my finger out and put something simple together to highlight my recent modding to "Main". Refer to: http://xtremesystems.org/forums/show...51#post1755051

ps. Thanks jimwah for prompting me out of my apathy :)

joining... name SKiLL3R...maybe i can get 2 1900crossfire Users to join too^^

iLL

Welcome to the team:toast:

Regards

John.

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joining... name SKiLL3R...maybe i can get 2 1900crossfire Users to join too^^

iLL

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Welcome to the team, SKiLL3D!:clap:

XS needs you and we're glad you've obliged :D
Please, bring on the recruits. The more the merrier and the more likely we (XS's team 36362) are to break the 100 barrier!

Not to mention the benefit to medical research!!!

Watch out guys, I've got HTPC running 2 threads@3.3 now :hrhr: (53c CPU/24c ambient(case open)). Turns out that the mounting/artic silver coverage was dreadful. I decided to lap the D805 too (thought it was :confused: ) while I was at it. Remounted now and seems to be firing nicely!

Rmc, you're slipping again. :hehe: I notice, though, that you haven't submitted any WUs for a while, so I figure you gon'na punch back pretty hard anytime now, especially with your GPU added to the crop ;)

:welcome: to the team :toast:

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Watch out guys, I've got HTPC running 2 threads@3.3 now :hrhr: (53c CPU/24c ambient(case open)). Turns out that the mounting/artic silver coverage was dreadful. I decided to lap the D805 too (thought it was :confused: ) while I was at it. Remounted now and seems to be firing nicely!

Rmc, you're slipping again. :hehe: I notice, though, that you haven't submitted any WUs for a while, so I figure you gon'na punch back pretty hard anytime now, especially with your GPU added to the crop ;)

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I don't have a GPU to put toward it... ;) I am debating about getting one though.

I have had some slow WUs and a couple should be done tomorrow, but I still think you will be ahead. Hopefully i'll get some shorter WUs after those are sent.

Nice to see your D805 is up and running. :)

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I don't have a GPU to put toward it... ;) I am debating about getting one though.
Nice to see your D805 is up and running. :)

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Sorry, misunderstanding... and thanks :)

I just realised... going to overtake Xciter very soon and Pythagoras is virtually behind already :D But BigD has lots of reserves I think... ;)

GAM, we're running 64-65 as of this coming update... do you have over 1,000 points coming in today? Because I do... :D

Looks like we'll take the 107th spot in just 6-7 days... nice job guys, lets keep it going.

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GAM, we're running 64-65 as of this coming update... do you have over 1,000 points coming in today? Because I do... :D

Looks like we'll take the 107th spot in just 6-7 days... nice job guys, lets keep it going.

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:( No. 4*153... by early tomorrow.
Rusn fusn shusn crusn fusn musn trusn rtrushinrafobot :|
Okay, okay, gimme time,. ill get ya. Had some down time here, let me reomind you. I'ts in me, I'll show ya'. :rolleyes:

:toast: to the team!!!! (36362) we're winners and we should know it!!
All clocks to 36362, :trumpet:

Well I have another system coming :D Although I wonder if I should block ebay, bad for my bank account :eek:

I'm going to be picking up my spare PSU this weekend, and see if that does anything with that celeron system. It is now crashing once a day so I keep it running, when it crashes I shut the darn thing off then turn it back on and it is good for the next 24 hours or so. Still folds though! :p:

What the? I've just picked up two new projects 772 and 773.

The 773 is only worth 44pts! 42% in 5hrs, 91.6ppd (HTPC)
The 772 is worth 149pts. 6% in 10hrs! 24.2ppd (Server)

The 772 is the pits running on the P4e@3.15Ghz.

The same machine processed 1808/9's for 153pts at a rate of 100ppd.

I don't seem to have got a 600pointer for ages. :confused: I thought my settings should be enforcing/encouraging these projects. ( -svcstart -local -advmethods -forceasm -verbosity 9)

Does all this seem normal to you guys?


@Rmc, <100 pts behind you ;) and got another 153 coming in the next 4.5hrs.

@Sparky, what have you picked up from the bargain bin? And where are you going to put these things? I just picked up a 3yr old Dell GX260 desktop @1.7 (i think) with 20" Dell Trinitron for AUD150. This is going to mum who has been waiting for me to fix the old p3 600 I tried to set up for her before (18mths ago ;) ). She's 75 and never used a computer and wants to learn about the www and email. Getting her set up with email and Skype will put her in touch with my sister in Dublin. Anyway... I am now wondering whether I should pickup a few more of these Dells and set them up in the garage or something so I can dust Rmc :hmhm: Regardless, the Dell for mum means I can rebuild my old P4b 2.53/P4S8X and put it to use folding. Will have to wait until I have got some these mod projects out of the way though.

I feel your pain... I have also had a 772 and 773 in the last day or so.

Please don't buy more computers... I won't have a chance. :(

Haha just kidding... the more the better. :toast: