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[sierra_bound]

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Hiwaa



Would be great if we could get to 2,000 by Saturday. Ask a friend to crunch for a week.

[Jayster]

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I dont have much to offer but im crunching pretty much 24/7 hopefully that makes up for it.

[sierra_bound]

Every little bit helps. One of the nice things about distributed computing is that there's power in numbers. If 500 people are doing only 2,000 WCG points/day, that's a million points total.

[sierra_bound]

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We're now the 14th largest team. A few weeks ago we were ranked 23rd.

[Jack]

Hello I thought I'd join the team as well.

I installed the Boinc manager... But now what? Let the computer idle and let the Boinc manager do it's thing?

[sierra_bound]

Yes, just let BOINC do its thing. Your computer will run at 100% load, but it should not prevent you from using it for other things.

[Jayster]

Anyone know how many points a core 2 quad at 2.5 should turn out?

[Jack]

OK cool

So now I can go drink beer and cure cancer at the same time This software is awesome!

[sierra_bound]

Anyone know how many points a core 2 quad at 2.5 should turn out?

Probably at least 10,000 WCG points/day. At 3.6GHz, it should do 15,000-20,000 points/day.

OK cool

So now I can go drink beer and cure cancer at the same time This software is awesome!

Yes, just set it and forget it. Your CPU does all the work.

[Jayster]

Probably at least 10,000 WCG points/day. At 3.6GHz, it should do 15,000-20,000 points/day.

Yes, just set it and forget it. Your CPU does all the work.

No way to overclock atm =/, And so far my results dont show those kind of numbers but ill have to wait and see if they even out a bit later.

[sierra_bound]

Each completed work unit that's sent back has to be validated. You should get a better idea of your daily point average 2-3 days from now.

[phelan1777]

Some of the variables for using one's PC/Laptop while running Boinc/WCG.


If you have a decent amount of system RAM.

A decent speed CPU. Quads are more ideal but you can still work with a dual core.

Over all age and use of the PC.

If the PC is an older machine, especially if lesser then current avg ram and depending on the use (applications/programs running) it may cause the system to slow down but the options can be set so that if you are using your machine it will set BOINC to run in the background and or set the optimal % of CPU/RAM usage so it won't interfere with daily usage.

Net surfing, music, reading, e-mail and probably most video formats won't be affected unless maybe one is on a laptop with a slower/integrated older VGA and the system RAM is shared for video as well as system resources.

If something like that is an issue, set BOINC to run when the PC is idle, work will pick up right where it left off after a short period.

For details, one should read through the settings/options an can fine tune from there.

It is a really user friendly app, though it can be a resource hog when you let it.

It is possible to run BOINC and game depending on the system/RAM/CPU cores and speed.

[ReKcOlNu]

8 New members joined 4/28/10
[SC2]mkc
CaptainOC
dr_drache
gab1707
Hiwaa
JackXS
rinkuhero
TheZone

# New Members	Joined
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8		4/28/10
11		4/27/10
8		4/26/10
14		4/25/10
31		4/24/10
40		4/23/10
154		4/22/10
11		4/21/10
18		4/20/10
16		4/19/10
9		4/18/10
9		4/17/10
18		4/16/10
31		4/15/10
72		4/14/10
136		4/13/10
10		4/12/10 to 4/1/10

Total: 596

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[GOZ]

I joined on the 15th, got a 2.0 p4, 2.8 p4 northy@3.2, opty 148@ 2.4, and my rig in my sig grinding away. My main system is part time till the 1st tho the others are 24/7, man is it hot in my puter room lmao

My grandpa died of cancer so this is the lease I can do

[sierra_bound]

Sorry about your grandfather. Thanks for helping us out.

[Movieman]

I joined on the 15th, got a 2.0 p4, 2.8 p4 northy@3.2, opty 148@ 2.4, and my rig in my sig grinding away. My main system is part time till the 1st tho the others are 24/7, man is it hot in my puter room lmao

My grandpa died of cancer so this is the lease I can do

I don't know if this will make sense but you typify the kind of people I'm hoping to get the message to..
The "average" guy for lack of a better way to say it.
Many Thanks for coming to help!

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[TyCanadian]

This is awesome, thanks to everyone that's joined up. I joined in March and even before I fall asleep, I feel a little bit more satisfied when I think about how my PCs will be working all night for good causes.

We should all make a push to add more people from those around us (family, friends, etc.) too!

[yotomeczek]

I'm in b

[sierra_bound]

Thanks for joining.

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