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Folding Problem - Too Slow?

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erehwon6811

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I'm setting up F@H on two more computers in my home network. I got a 400 Mhz Celeron to run F@H, with it completing its first WU in two days from today. The problem is when I put it on this cheap pc I built. It has a $5 or $10 motherboard with intregrated processor that I got from tigerdirect (I think I did get the rebate). It's a Via processor. Windows' system info gave me this info: x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 CentaurHauls ~800 Mhz. The pc has 384 mb of ram. Thsi rig will complete its first WU on Dec. 27. I don't understand why it is going so slow. I would think it would be as fast or faster than the celeron. I could use some help.

One currious thing I found is Norton systemworks system info shows the processor as: CentaurHauls 377.2 GHz :confused:
 
i am not too sure about those Via chipos, heard bad things, hate to tell ya.
 
One thing I didn't say was that I have been running UD on this machine. Most of my WU on that have only taken three days at the most. I don't get why it's so different.
 
Folding is unbelievably CPU intensive. Folding is actually harder on your CPU’s math abilities then Prime95. Those of us who have been at this for a while have found that anything under 2 gig in an AMD or I higher end P-4 just won’t give you results your going to be happy with. Worse, your cost of folding will go sky high when you take the power you consume vs. your output.

I think that with careful shopping you can put together some nice machines pretty cheap.

By all means fold with what you have, but as you add and or replace think Semperon, think $50 mobo with onboard lan and video etc. ;)

Luck, happy folding
 
If I'm not mistaken - and I definitely could be - those old Via chips had a crap-tacular floating point unit running at 1/2 clock speed. So if it's 800Mhz, the Floating-point is running 400mhz.
 
The via chips fold very slowly, as I have found out on my mini-itx box, I no longer run it on that box just for that reason.
 
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