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Yes, it runs 24/7.

Interesting. I use the console version and the longest a unit has ever taken was on the single core and it took 8 days.

Not sure what is going on. These two rigs together should easily be able to output 600 or more points a day. In other words, beat shug into a bloody pulp.

Nah, just some really huge folding units.

You're obviously delusional. It's a fluke, won't happen again.

That's mostly because Intel is at 65nm, but 30c load sounds rather low to me. I think you either have a very low ambient, or a sensor that's not so accurate. The first quad cores are just like the old dual cores of Intel, nothing more than two dual cores stuck together. So the TDP is exactly double that of Conroe.

For general multitasking, two cores is all you need (I don't mean running several CPU-intensive programs at the same time, since that is very rare). Four cores is for the most part only useful for encoding, in other words video/sound editors. On the other hand, the 8800GTX is bottlenecked by a C2D at over 3.5 Ghz, so as long as a game can use the extra cores (for a game programmer that's tough to do) you will see quite a nice boost when running Core 2 Quadro.

And that's 100.000 points for me. clicky. W00t!

6 ms, oh sure. Everytime a new screen comes out the manufacturers use a different method of calculating the delay, and most of the time it's faster only because of that. CRTs until something comes along that is better and cheaper. For now, LCD does neither.

Depending on temperatures, it can run at anywhere between 3.3 and 4.0 Ghz. Personally, I'd go for the cheapest Core 2 Duo and OC that one, because the 805 uses a lot of power on full load especially when OCed (like, 150+ watt) and you'll earn the difference back within time for the next computer.

Vampyric tendiencies are good, we don't get many people with those. I can give you a piece of advice: Bite the unaware.

"Miserable failure" should still refer to the biography of W Bush, they're mostly jokes such as "french military victories" and "waffles". I remember visiting a certain Wikipedia article on this.

The AthlonXP does about 150 points per day, and the dual-core does at least 200 per core. That is with a significant overclock though. Don't forget OCing, it's free power

That's some nice output. At least I'm still no 2

The new iTunes is supposedly bad, with laggy music and lousy quality. Waiting for an update would be good and complaining about it might be better

That even beats Gmail. Looked through their legal stuff to see how they handle privacy?

More folding power for testmy.net is always good, even if the owner of it goes on a mission to do the impossible, in other words surpass me. Just make sure you don't overheat your CPU(s).

Not a problem, it just shows how kick-ass this AMD dual core is. Gotta love 5.4 Ghz of computing power, since it really kicks Shug's ass.

Uh, I'm running one AthlonXP @ 2 Ghz, and a A64 dual core at 2.7 Ghz. That's three cores, not six. That ends up at about 600 points per day, if I leave them running 24/7. It does get rather hot in here, so I turn off folding for one core on the x2 every night.

Seems you ran out of pentiums to run. Your ass got kicked.

Folding@home just takes whatever amount of cpu cycles it's allowed to take to run experiments on protein folding. The grid they're talking about is more like remote access to your CPU cycles, and it can be made to run anything. But they'll be monitoring for abuse of course. Shameless plug: Folding@home needs more power, and your CPU can help. Clicky for information on how to install it.

I know, but just for the sake of benchmarking...It sounds like a really damn nice CPU, and you should at least see how far it can go...

There have been times when I had a running computer without a case. Gotta love the cold air from the window going straight to a computer, cooling it way down. MYRIAGON: It ends up doing that in quite a few cases, but a power supply needs cooling too, and that doesn't go too well if it only gets hot air.

Kinda surprised you didn't go for conroe, but 2.75 on stock vcore is very nice. How far did it go with vcore increases (benchstable)?

But that's not the right way. If the power supply doesn't get somewhat cool air then it might overheat. The fans in the power supply aren't meant for removing hot air from the case.