The ***OFFICIAL*** F@H Harassment and discussion thread!!!

[Kingcarcas]

I've been thinkin about getting into folding. I have this powerful system. and I use it for gaming, editing, encoding, benching and what not. But it only gets used the last few hours of everyday.

How often do you guys fold.? is the PC on 24/7 and how much of the PC's resources does it use. or can you set the level it takes.. like 25%, 75%, or all 100% If I'd like?

I don't know ANYTHING AT all about F@H, other then I've went to the site and read about it, and that it could help find cures.. My grandpa recently Died of Cancer. He helped raise me so I miss him dearly.
Maybe my system could be put to some better use. Let me know.

If anyone has some good, general informative info on the process and everything else about it. I'd appreciate the 411.

Thanks!

I've never had a beast of a machine, but this is what i always wondered...say there are people on this forum who spend thousands on uber hardware, bench it, yay, then what? After i'm done OCing it's like ok now what? Play some games ok, after you're done then what? Turn it off Seems just kinda lame to spend all this money for yourself and only use it for a few hours IDK, that's just how i felt. I remember when my brother bought a super duper PC just to run some chess program, i was like cool, but that's it? Seems we have a lot of horsepower might as well put it to good use, yes?

I had 2 boxes going 24/7, my rig with a C2D/9800gtx+, family PC with an X2/8800gt, but i only run the family PC during the day now because i got yelled at when the electric bill came I'm the only child living here now and i guess it was kinda high, should have just used the $100 for the 8800 on some RAM for my rig....or stop using the plasma TV /rant

Great. I'm back home for the weekend. I just checked my stats at the update and I got 0 for the 9PM update. Means something most likely went wrong back at school, either the internet died there again or fold7 hung and disconnected my machines won't know until Sunday..hopefully it is a brief bug that is school's issue and things work again later instead of halting my production for the weekend... sigh I miss reliable internet that just worked even when I walked away from it.

Sucks man, i'm about to reset my modem, a lot of people are getting 15/2 TWC upgrades in socal Once i lost my net connection when i did this so wish me luck lol