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Dual Pent Pro 200

K* is right. The P3 450 in my sig takes forever to crank out a WU. I doubt the dual 200's would do much better. You will probably have to run timeless WU's to get anything out of it. Then again every little bit helps.

Fold on!

 
I would set it with timeless and let it go.

I however am experimenting with my quad p3 xeon and folding.

Have two processors set at timeless and the other two set at regular. What I have now is a server that will be soon dropping 4 processors worth of points all within maybe the same week.
 
doh! Couldn't get the stupid thing to boot anyways.

Currently, I live in an apartment and the Elec bill is one flat fee :D

I'm moving though in like 3 months. :(
 
budec said:
doh! Couldn't get the stupid thing to boot anyways.

Currently, I live in an apartment and the Elec bill is one flat fee :D

I'm moving though in like 3 months. :(
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then i would try to run it for 3 months if you can
 
I would run the computer with folding, it may take months but the results that come from it is well worth it.

I say this for some people in the [H]orde, the computers that we have we will fold with, it don't matter if it is slow, unreliable and wasteful to run. If we had enough money or won the lottery we would do so of building better computers.

If we have crap to fold with, we will fold with crappers until something better comes along.

And when has the people in the [H]orde decide that you should no longer fold on something slower than a p2.

I thought when I downloaded this program and folded with team 33, that it didn't matter what type of computer you had, you can fold. With that thought in mind, I thought the results that are sent in from our pc's made a difference, not the speed of your computer.
 
MN Scout said:
I say no. Cost of power and what not.

-Mn Scout
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If he has free power, then I'll change my mind and say yes. It's just that p2 200mhz would take super super long to do one wu, but if he has free power that changes things.

If I would have a computer like that and I would have to pay for all the power, I'd leave it off for 4 months, and then with the money saved in electricity I'd go buy myself a cheap new folder - AMD highspeed something or another that would do tons more work in the first few days than the p2 200 would do in a month. Just my thoughts.

-Mn Scout
 
It would take a freaking month per WU at least. My dual P3-450 takes over a week to turn in a WU(well, 2 because it's dual.) Remember that does get a boost from SSE as well, which the Pro's don't have, they don't even have MMX in fact. I've got a dual PPro 200@245MHz here at work that I turned off long ago, it just isn't worth the power it takes to get so little out of it.

Since the machine didn't boot though, I guess it doesn't matter anyways.
 
MN Scout said:
If he has free power, then I'll change my mind and say yes. It's just that p2 200mhz would take super super long to do one wu, but if he has free power that changes things.
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Actually, a PII 266 takes about 2-2 1/2 weeks to fold a 249 point timeless tinker. It averages out to around 100 points per week I believe.

I'm not sure how the Pentium Pro @ 200 would run. I doubt it would be all that much different except for the clock speed, though.

And a reason not to fold on older systems is because of the cost of electric. Sometimes, the amount of electricity something like my dually PII 266 uses just isn't worth the amount of work it does. For me it's a different story. It's my main system since it's the only one I have at my apartment. And eventually it will be a fileserver or something similar. In that case, it will be multipurpose and worth keeping around even for the power it uses.

Sometimes, you just can't afford a slow, power hungry machine when it doesn't do much.

 
I've retired my P233.

I kinda got tired of it getting all of the 300 (mostly not finishing :rolleyes: ) and my P4 getting the 60 and sometimes 20 pointers.
 
Codegen said:
I've retired my P233.

I kinda got tired of it getting all of the 300 (mostly not finishing :rolleyes: ) and my P4 getting the 60 and sometimes 20 pointers.
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That's why they have the timeless tinkers for the slower machines. It's also nice because it will cache up to 10 WU's at a time if you don't have a net connection on a machine. It works great for me since my timeless tinker system is slow and doesn't have a net connection.

 
SmokeRngs said:
That's why they have the timeless tinkers for the slower machines. It's also nice because it will cache up to 10 WU's at a time if you don't have a net connection on a machine. It works great for me since my timeless tinker system is slow and doesn't have a net connection.

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It was set to timeless.

Half the time it'd get a deadline one, anyway.

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edit: Fixed quote
 
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