Quote Originally Posted by Willhub View Post
Hi.

I got that email about the week in may and am thinking about doing this for that week, I've not got much powerful PC though, E8500 @ 4Ghz, I have a laptop as well with a T6500 2.1Ghz.

Can't graphics cards like a ATi 4870 do crunching too?

And this maxes the PC out 100%, is it as taxing as those stress tests like Prime 95? My PC is stable for stuff like gaming and all that, and can do Orthos all day, but it's not IBT stable.

I'd not be able to keep my laptop on for a week constantly though as I take it to college.

Thanks
Will.
Hi Will,

unfortunately WCG is CPU-only for the moment.
And yes, it will load all your CPU cores to 100%, but it's not as stressful as prime, let alone Linpack. So your temps and power consumption will be a little lower than when running prime95, IBT, Orthos etc.
If you can pass prime you can crunch fine

Quote Originally Posted by Jembo View Post
I live in Australia... I have limits on how much I can upload and download per month. Can anyone direct me to to some info so I can figure out how much it's going to use to do this?

Cheers.
Bandwidth is a nonissue really. Depending on your machine(s) you can estimate 20-50MB total traffic for a week. More like 20 unless you have a small farm