folding on quad xeon?

[ring.of.steel]

hi,

thinking about buying a new server for the house. it has quad p3 xeons 733mhz and 1gb ram. is it worth folding on in its spare cycles?
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[Mohonri]

If you set it up with the SMP client, then absolutely, it's worth setting up to fold. The SMP client is Linux- and MacOS-only at this point, so I hope you were planning on installing Linux...

 

[ring.of.steel]

to be honest i wasn't planning on it. oh well i will use another machine instead. hoping to setup:

2,4ghz p4 512mb ram
1.8ghz athlon xp 512mb ram } dedicated
2x p3 733mhz 512mb ram
p3 933mhz 256 ram

2x p3 733 mhz 786mb ram
sempron 1.6ghz 512mb ram } when turned on
sempron 1.6 256 ram
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[Tigerbiten]

to be honest i wasn't planning on it. oh well i will use another machine instead. hoping to setup:

2,4ghz p4 512mb ram
1.8ghz athlon xp 512mb ram } dedicated
2x p3 733mhz 512mb ram
p3 933mhz 256 ram

2x p3 733 mhz 786mb ram
sempron 1.6ghz 512mb ram } when turned on
sempron 1.6 256 ram
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There around 10Ghz of Folding power there.
It will net you around 500 PpD.
A single C2D or X2 system running a 64 bit Linux and the SMP client will pull in close to double that.
And use a lot less power.

If you need to buy [H]ardware to fold on, your a lot better buying dual core CPU's that support 64 bit OS's and building around that.

My critiria for a folding box used to be 2 Ghz or faster.
Its now 500 Points per Day or better.
Any box that does not do that gets switched off.
Thinking of switching Piglet Boxen off ( dual 2.4Ghz Opterons ) because I cannot get the onboard nic to work under 64 bit Linux, hence it only pulls in 250-300 PpD.
But then again I an learning Linux the [H]ard way.

Luck ...............

 

[ring.of.steel]

how many points will a x1950pro give me per day on average?
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[Mohonri]

If I recall correctly, at 3D clocks, it's roughly 660ppd, and at 2D clocks, 440ppd.

 

[ring.of.steel]

cheers. am tempted to get one of them with a cheap core 2 duo.... hmmm
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