j-dogg

For me, it is mostly money, I had machines stacked up 2 and 3 high and I made two wiring harnesses for it, one for power, one for network, I used VNC over my laptop to manage them all.

I would spend a weekend at the surplus warehouse just finding boards and processors just to make into folding rigs, in one day I spent over 250 dollars for 5 boards and processors and some 4gb HDD's and went home and built them into Folding machines. I had everything from 1ghz P3's to at one time, of those 22 machines, 16 were XP1600 / 1.5ghz and higher, with 10 of those in the 2.5 - 3ghz / XP2000 - XP3200 range. I would shut my AC off come back home and it would be hotter in my house than it was outside, and I live in Florida.

I just cant afford a 300 dollar electric bill every month, I don't like it being 100 degrees in my house when I come home, and nevermind all the noise from 50-something fans in aircooled computers. so what if I don't fold like I used to, I was folding for 596 before 90% of the people on this site were even registered here.

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