Well, just got another rig up, a 1.2 Celeron this time.

The wife is ordering me one of them cutesy Shuttle SS40G's tomorrow so I can play with an AMD for a change... See what sort of numbers we can post with a 1700+ Thoroughbred...

JHoop2002: Man did you walk all over me or what... LOL All I can see from here is dust (and a few little pieces of Intel chips that you stomped on)...

Ben: Are you concerned about cooling on that Celeron? I think most of us do the 100% 24/7 thing, haven't heard of any problems yet

Welcome to the Pimprig Folding Team BTW, great to have another on board! Maybe we'll stay ahead of Russia yet...

Sport...

hey, i found that sometimes when i would run folding at 100% it would take just a tad bit longer for things to run, so i dialed it back to 96% and i can't tell it is running at all.
Anyone else notice this?

It's all because of AMD Sport. I have mine and then two others, the rest are intels. I have about 13 processors a week, some slow others not, and each of the 3 AMDs has outfolded any of the intel machines. So go AMD!

Does anyone know a way to install this program in DOS? I am dieing to install this on some of the computers just sitting in the technology clusters here on campus, but they've prevented it. So i was wondering if i could go in through safemod command prompt or something and install this.

I run f@h full time 100% load. Don't see any difference when i back it down a bit tho. However i notive even my chip pops out alot more friggin wus then my g/fs comp (2.4 p4) kinda funny.

jhoop, I haven't tried it, but I'm sure that the console mode will run fine in DOS.

Thanks go out to you guys rounding up the folding machines.

lol, we're all just trying to catch up with you BA.

I went back to the site to download the console version and saw the screensaver one. I downloaded it and installed it but it doesn't work. i leave my computer for 5 min (its set to come on in 3) and its not on, and i goto display properties and try to preview and it won't come up. What gives?

Is it running in the background though?

I had the same problem. Apparently you can't have it running full time and have the screen saver. If you shut it down and then try the screen saver it should work.

On their forums, it appears they have a lot of problems with the s/s version of the software, and really, if the console and gui versions give you back your cpu cycles when you need them why bother with the screen saver?

There have even been mentions of ditching that version altogether, but the mentions all seem to come from users LOL
Sport...

Yeah i run the console all the time, and the only reason i wanted the screensaver was so that i could watch it when my screensaver came on, thats all. I guess it just doesn't want to work correctly .

Nobody seems to have much luck with the screensaver.

well, that too bad, it would be a good screen saver.

been folding for a week or so now and i am at 49 all ready.

They have different size WUs i think, so u coulda gotten alot of small ones

EDIT: i could be wrong. and you just got supa comp.

Yeah! The Russians took us for a day, but we got the spot back. This is a close battle! Bring on some more computing power so we can put them down for good! I powered up a 1.33 Athlon to help out.

Sportbilly: I am not overly concerned with the celeron itself, although I would like to see some lower temps when folding. What I guess I am trying to do is see how far I can take fan cooling...I considered replacing my sidepanel with 19" server fan... but decided that it wouldnt be withen my goal of fan cooling off hte PSU (the 19 incher just plugged right into the wall) Ya, I am nucking futz, but its cool to see the reactions I get when I tell people about what I have done. Once I get my 172MM in and maybe a simple red CC, Ill post some pics.

LOL Ben, they should be interesting...

I just got a 2100+ running in the shuttle ss40g the wife helped pay for, I'm now an AMD convert, this thing EATS work units for breakfast, and usually another for supper...

EDIT : Turned out to be T-Bred B, not bad for 87 bucks from Googlegear...

I'm borging another P4 tomorrow hopefully too

I DID retire the laptop finally though, give it a rest fer a while, looks like the wife might ship out to the desert soon, so she might need it anyway...

Heh, yeah, if I wasnt so st00pid as to buy a celeron (although the number 2.0ghz impresses my n00b friends) I would have so gone AMD...It is pretty sad when my friends AMD 550 does twice the work mine can do a day. Oh well, AMD is the only way to go when it comes to folding.

My computer can't fold cause of my f***ed up bios. I was going so good there but have to sit back and wait for my computer to be fixed.

As you can tell from my recent low numbers, I DX'd a buttload of computers at work that I had folding. They didn't get trashed by choice, but we were directed to trash any 300MHz or below. I think Joe will be taking over the top spot again very soon.