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colinstu

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Doing it just so I can warm up my room. I'm in Wisconsin and even though my room is connected to the forced-air heating system... there just doesn't seem to be much air entering my room. Feels like it's going to be a long winter.

So I got my 9800GTX cranking away. Don't bother with SMP folding as my OC has seem to become more unstable over the years. But I did OC my card's shaders and core a little to get a couple hundred more points out of it.

GPU Tracker has made this all a breeze to setup! Wish this tool was out years ago. Giving PPD predictions between 5500-6600, about what I remember it being before.

Been having it on for a day or two so far, gotta admit, my room is now comfortable feeling now! No longer freezing cold. Impressive just for a video card.



Can't wait to break into 200k and 250k points!
 
Welcome back colinstu, thanks! :cool:
 
Welcome back and Fold on!

Just an FYI: If you are looking for an upgrade, I bet you can find a GTX460 for well under $100. That would give you over 10k ppd when OC-ed

A GTS 260 should be around $50 used, and would do around 8 or 9k ppd.
 
Thanks all! I know it's not much, but it's something!

Kendrak said:
GTS 260 should be around $50 used, and would do around 8 or 9k ppd.
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Assuming you mean GTX 260? The 216 stream processor one at that?

Scary to see those cards being so cheap now... remember seeing those go for new $200-300!

Anyways, I'll be doing an entire rig overhaul whenever Ivy Bridge and GTX 600-series cards are released (Q2 2012 on the proc... no idea on the video card). So I'll go do some real folding when that rolls around :cool: but for now I'd like to climb over all the inactive people in the project and warm up my room.
 
colinstu said:
Anyways, I'll be doing an entire rig overhaul whenever Ivy Bridge and GTX 600-series cards are released (Q2 2012 on the proc... no idea on the video card). So I'll go do some real folding when that rolls around :cool: but for now I'd like to climb over all the inactive people in the project and warm up my room.
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Good to see you have a plan ;)
 
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