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Pentium M for folding?

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One question:

Is the Pentium M a good processor for folding? Does it provide a good computing power to electrical power ratio? I think it would because it is based off of the Pentium III but I don't have any first hand experience.

 
Hrm...I wonder the same. Pentium M's kick ass at everything else, so I would assume they are good with folding..
 
I think Hito has one or two... from what I remember, he said they chew threw DGromacs and AMBERs like crazy.... I'll search around and see if I can find it....

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Keep on Folding!! For the [H]orde!!

 
i have F@H installed on a couple of friends lappies and for the amount of time they are on they turn in a pretty good number of WU
so i would say they are pretty good at it
 
I don't have that much data, but I can tell you this: I have two machines: an AthlonXP 1800 (1.53GHz) and a P-M 1.4 GHz, each with 512MB RAM.

A 241-point tinker frame takes about 7 minutes on the AthlonXP (124ppd), and about 10 minutes on the P-M(86ppd).
1% of a 600-point GROMACS WU takes about an hour on my AthlonXP(143ppd), and about 41-42 minutes on the P-M(210ppd!).

of course, any other non-tinker core gets far fewer ppd on my AthlonXP, and any non-600-point GROMACS gets far fewer ppd on the P-M. You can scale it according to clock speed. As far as points/kWhr, the P-M is the current king of the hill, hands-down.
 
My play laptop does great at folding. I have no real numbers on it though. I fold at 50% only when plugged in. It gets a tad hot while folding at 100% so I pumped it down to half.

If the P M was in a desktop environment I think it would be a great solution. However a P4 at 3 Ghz cost $181 while the only P-M 1.7 Ghz that newegg has is $213.

And I am not really sure but I think the mobo's for desktop P-M's are also more cotsly.

I think I would just go with an A64.

We need to get some realy hard numbers running for this kind of stuff.
 
I posted a while back in another thread about this. The Pentium M price/performance/power usage ratio is incredible. It uses so much less power that it will pay for itself over the lower priced A64s and P4s in 6-12 months time. My P M laptop(1.86GHz) mows through WUs while using 34watts under full load w/ the screen closed.

There are certain units it doesn't fold very quickly, but it does put some points out, with much lower power usage. It puts out about the same PPD as my Athlon XP 2500+@2.4GHz, which that machine uses 165watts under full load and the screen off. I'm debating between a dual core A64 and a P M for my next desktop. I'll most likely go dual core, because I also want to play around with 64bit linux, but for pure power usage, the P M owns everything else.
 
are pentium m's good to be left folding 24/7 say on an ibm r series notebook? mine should be arriving soon and wondering if heat would be a problem with it, especially leaving it on all the time.
 
TheJackal said:
are pentium m's good to be left folding 24/7 say on an ibm r series notebook? mine should be arriving soon and wondering if heat would be a problem with it, especially leaving it on all the time.
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I don't have any problems with mine being on all the time. In the worst case, it will throttle back the speed before it burned the proc out. I've got a 1.86GHz P M Dell Inspiron 6000.
 
sandmanx said:
I don't have any problems with mine being on all the time. In the worst case, it will throttle back the speed before it burned the proc out. I've got a 1.86GHz P M Dell Inspiron 6000.
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hehe, that's nice to know. i'll have two pc's folding. :D
 
My work laptop (Dell D600) has a P-M, it runs pretty much all the time, gets a little warm on the bottom but other than that no problems.

On a releated note: would it be worth it to pick up a an oldschool 1.2ghz P3 Celeron? You know the kind that can hit 1.6 ghz and is really a P3 with 256KB of cache? I've got everything else I need for it sitting around I'm just wondering if it is worth the power.
 
TheJackal said:
are pentium m's good to be left folding 24/7 say on an ibm r series notebook? mine should be arriving soon and wondering if heat would be a problem with it, especially leaving it on all the time.
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I have a Inspiron 8600 with a 1.5 Banias and it's run 24/7 for a few months with no problems. I have a laptop cooler underneath it and it stays pretty cool. Even before I got one, it did get warm but never throttled down or coughed up a unit early.

Just get a cooler to be safe and feed it a steady diet of WU's and you're good to go. :D

 
It's got to be better than my P4 Mobile @ 2GHZ, that sucker runs hott as hell. About 153 @ 100%. But it does 200PPD QMD (150 big WUs) so I'm happy.

Make sure to set the battery option to yes, trust me, I learned the hard way.

 
brycejones said:
On a releated note: would it be worth it to pick up a an oldschool 1.2ghz P3 Celeron? You know the kind that can hit 1.6 ghz and is really a P3 with 256KB of cache? I've got everything else I need for it sitting around I'm just wondering if it is worth the power.
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There are people here running Pentium 2s. Of course it's worth it!
 
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