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Does RAM make a difference?

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Codegen

Gawd
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I'm just wondering if RAM makes a difference in folding performance.

Thanks.

 
if you have 128 it will run stable... when you get any more then that, then you can pull the larger work units / beta units for potentially higher point gain... otherwise its all about the CPU

and.... if you do other things on the computer. its good to have a little more ram :) (forgot to mention that)
 
WEll, computer in question is a P233 with 96MB of RAM. Ain't much, but it does the job.

I can up it to 160, would it make a difference in this situation?

 
Not much, 96 is the bare min you should run a folding only boxen on, otherwise you start to have problems :)
 
KodiakStar said:
Not much, 96 is the bare min you should run a folding only boxen on, otherwise you start to have problems :)
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SAo basically what you're saying is that it wouldn't make a difference, but I should up it anyway? :confused:
 
KodiakStar said:
Unless you have another boxen to put it in, might as well put it in :)
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Ok, then.

I'll save it for tommorow. Way too tired for pushing cables out of the way of the RAM slots.
 
Codegen said:
WEll, computer in question is a P233 with 96MB of RAM. Ain't much, but it does the job.

I can up it to 160, would it make a difference in this situation?

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It should be fine as long as your running timeless....if you got more ram at hand id say use it....I wouldnt buy any though! ;)

 
Mayhem33 said:
It should be fine as long as your running timeless....if you got more ram at hand id say use it....I wouldnt buy any though! ;)

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I've got 128MB Spare.

But, 32+32+32=96 96-32-32 =32 32+64+64=160

Should be ok
 
You have a P233 folding? That must be painful. Hope it's faster than my EPIA M10000. I turned that bastard off because it was taking over an hour a frame on a timeless unit, that was 400 frames. It would have taken about 2 weeks to fold one WU.

I'd look for an ebay special k6-2 400 or 450 if it has jumpers and is capable of lower voltages. It can turn a tired p233 into a k6-2 450. Still slow, but a bit better.

2.0 multiplier(remaps to 6.0) x 75MHz bus for 450MHz.
 
Not quite in your ballpark of things, but tighter timing on ram does quicken folding.
With having a dual cored P4 on fairly large qmd's 512meg of ram@cas2 does better than 1024@Cas3.
 
sandmanx said:
You have a P233 folding? That must be painful. Hope it's faster than my EPIA M10000. I turned that bastard off because it was taking over an hour a frame on a timeless unit, that was 400 frames. It would have taken about 2 weeks to fold one WU.
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It's on an 1112 for the past month, at 59%

It'd be further had the power not gone out the first hour of the weekend I was gone (I was pret-ty pissed). Lost 5 days of work. (uptime command showed that it had been on for 4 days, 22 hours).

I now have Debian on it and the service script works flawless.
 
sandmanx said:
You have a P233 folding? That must be painful. Hope it's faster than my EPIA M10000. I turned that bastard off because it was taking over an hour a frame on a timeless unit, that was 400 frames. It would have taken about 2 weeks to fold one WU.

I'd look for an ebay special k6-2 400 or 450 if it has jumpers and is capable of lower voltages. It can turn a tired p233 into a k6-2 450. Still slow, but a bit better.

2.0 multiplier(remaps to 6.0) x 75MHz bus for 450MHz.
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That means that my good old PII 300 MHz which is doing timeless WU's at app. 1hour 15-30m per frame isn't that far from the 1 GHz VIA CPU :eek: I 've always been told that it's the amount of MHz that matters for folding.

I also have a K6-2 550MHz but it is'nt folding, because it will either lock up or I will loose contact with it, ie. being rejected at the prompt (it was running behind the foldserver). And despite the fact that it's 150 MHz faster the performance equals the PII 300 MHz on WU's.

-E

 
Alright, I retired the thing today.

Gonna see if the used compouter shop will take it (I'ma ssuming they will as I saw stuff like P90s for sale)
 
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