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I'm not sure what your income is (and its none of my business) but the best move I ever made was investing in a $40 external USB/FW enclosure, a 200gb IDE drive (not sure what they go for) and a piece of software called Backup to CD-RW Made easy. The software allows for backups to any...

/me makes mental note never to take Claritin D :) I also haven't had any 600 pointers, but thats not unexpected as I only have one physical boxen that can handle them. Work won't upgrade my 3 Intel P4's to 1gb RAM.

Mine too, I had to go with Corsair on that board (which it is also fussy about). I am almost afraid to swap out my t-bird for a barton but really want too in order to reduce heat. The A7N8X runs great when its happy but it isn't happy when I change something.

10,000 for team 33. Compared to many here, that is not a lot but every little bit helps.

I think I may have picked one of these up at home but I had to leave before I found out what the point value was. Would be nice, haven't had one yet.

Mine finished too :)

73/100 frames complete and it still hasn't died, I am somewhat hopeful I will complete my first P1476. Hope I haven't jinxed it, I'll know in 10-11 hours.

Not minimizing their efforts, but even if the 600 P4's come through, thats 24k points/day (at 400ppd per rig). Thats a hell of a lot of points but we seem to be doing well with our heavy hitters as well. Gardener's like myself seem to be helping too (obviously not to the same degree)...

It's just a bit of friendly jabbing between OCAU and [H]. Will be interesting if they get their user that has supposed 600 P4's. I thought about posting a bit over there but Kodiak and Spectre seem to be doing a fine job :)

One thing you can do to slightly increase your points production is run two consoles on each of the Intel HT boxen you have. This is a judgement call on your part, two instances will increase your ppd from the boxes by 15-30% but will also slow down how fast the units are processed. On my HT...

I'd just reclone my PC. :)

Well my AMD 2600+ Tbird is folding this at 23 mins per frame with an overall WU time of approx 39 hours. Good points, approx 230 ppd if it makes it (not bad for my system). Seems to take about 120mb of RAM and has my CPU running at 48deg C (thats as hot as it gets). I'm not holding my breath.

I might as well use this double post for something. I just pulled a p1476 on my AMD rig, Ill post how far I ge with it later tonight. It does seem mighty unstable on my rig.

If these are the proteins that show up as little black balls in EMIII, my AMD rig at home can't fold them. 4 or 5 frames in, I get an error and it kicks the WU back to Stanford. I'm not OC'ing the AMD rig and I have never had stability problems with it (other than the fact that the system...

That thread you mentioned was easily the most single helpful thread in getting me (re) started with folding. Other things I personally think should be addressed either in the above thread or in any proposed howto/FAQ thread would be the 50% HT issue, how to embed switches into service based...

A completely non-scientific observation here: The hardest thing that can be done to a PC is continously turning it on and off. Much like a florescent lamp, computers don't seem to respond well to the jolt of startup. Nothing scares me more at work than when we have a power outage of a...

I'm not O/C'ing my AMD at home. 2600 T-bird runs consistant at 50c without overclocking even after 3 different heat sinks, 2 different thermal pastes, and a partridge and a pear tree. O/C'ing would cause China Syndrome :( I know, you are saying get rid of the t-bird and get a barton. No...

I'm sure H/L2 doesnt take *that* many cycles. [/sarcasm]

I've looked at the forums and I didn't see a post having to do with this topic, if there is one could someone provide linkage? I am thinking about buying a refurbished SN41G2BV3 from newegg and I am wondering a couple of things about this: 1. Does the shuttle MB allow OC'ing? I haven't...

I was able to make a 2.8 P4 HT Dell Server disappear (i.e. to my office) today. Interesting since the Dell Poweredge doesnt come with XP drivers so i had to put a POS video card and NIC in. If my math is correct, we are at 480.

That farm is a thing of beauty. I kinda wonder what the power bill is like :x

Hopefully there will be a couple left by the time I hit 5k :)

No such luck, I haven't played with the timings at all. The clock is just fux0red, so bad it makes me laugh :)

Yep, I had to enable that for my AMD box at home, for some ungodly reason the CPU gains 15 minutes a day and I don't run StatBar when folding (StatBar has a clock sync function).

No kidding. I'd hate them more but Windows crappiness is good job security. :)

Well maybe I will fire off -advmethods on my AMD 2600 1gb boxen. I tried it for a while but all I got was crappy 6-7 point/hour 81 pointers. Points seemed better without -advmethods flag, the AMD seems to be able to fold most of the 241's at 9-10 points per hour.

You need yes to big units and -advmethods to get those right? When I ran -advmethods, all I got was a bunch of 80-something point low ppds. Any secrets to getting bigger units with -advmethods?

Ive learned that trying to cook Chicken/Apple sausage the same way I cook bratwerst is not a great idea. I have also learned to mark bags destined for the freezer to avoid such future confusion.

Lots of great folders in this group, 10-11k a day? LMAO its gonna take a few weeks for me to produce a single days worth of folding. Keep it up :)

Yes I know I am a n00b, do I get a vote? :) Were it me, I'd close the thread and start a new one with CPU count. Note I said CPU count and not instance count. Yeah I know that all boxen are not equal but Ghz seems to suffer from the same problem. To throw a wrench in the process, might be...

I appreciate the help, I will probably do that for future boxen. It works fine without renaming assuuming the paths to the folding directories are correct. Many of the problems I have at work were due to NT/Win2k3 domain issues, the 2 boxen at work are on different NT domains so the mapped...

Sorry about the double post, for some reason my machine seems to be on drugs (can't be an operator problem), now I am having no problems monitoring the 3 proteins being folded on my two rigs. I still have no idea what rodsfree's EMIII skin issue is, I'm afraid to touch anything how that I...

The single machine I am running the two consoles on is a P4 HT, numerous sources have indicated that 15-30% extra points production can be gained by using the virtual HT processor at the cost of overall speed. Hence I am running this config on one rig and a single instance of the console on...

I don't have any specific advice on how to handle this problem, but I had a question as well. Does anybody know if there are support forums for EMIII? I checked www.em-dc.com, but didnt see any. I'm having probs getting multiple console proteins on the same PC to show in EMIII, EMIII forums...

Test Edit from work:

Einstein and Mayhem33 (and everybody else), thanks for the info on the HT issue. After doing a bit of poking around over at Stanford, Vijay pretty much sums up the situation with this: I like points and I like doing units fast, so I am going to double up one of my HT rigs and leave the...

Maybe I don't understand (ok I know I don't understand). I'd like to run the -advmethods switch to get some different units but I have my console setup as a service on my XP boxen. Does launching the console with the -advmethods -configonly, making my adjustments, then relaunching the service...

Truer words have never been spoken...

Try to stay strong and positive, my ex-g/f's mom is battling end stage colon cancer, my mom has fought breast cancer, and my dad's side of the family is cancer prone, attitude seems to help a lot.

Sweet, I have two HT rigs at work, this should boost my output a bit. Since I am running the console via service, I assume i just need to run the 2nd instance with -configonly and ensure the box number is different than the first instance right?