Oh OK, settled down at ~2 days now.

R.e. silent GFX cards, either buy a Zalman Reserator (and then tell me if it's any good ) for watercooling, or one of the many passively-cooled cards with heatpipes, or cheapest of all the arctic cooling heat exhauster that you can get in PC world for £10.

anyone got any silent gfx card fans?

Pretty sure I've got some gfx cards which don't even need fans...

Rob.

Downloaded at 10 lsat night. How long does it take to complete 1U? Are the times on the screen local or US?

25 mins to process a frame... Ah well, it may take days, but I'll get there in the end

Does anyone know if i need a different machine ID for each instance of seti i run? ie to run on a dual cpu theres 2 machine ids, but does it apply to separate machines? ie work + home?

does this come with an on/off switch for when you want your pc to yourself - for hl2 for example? Ive not done something like this before.

Shame theres no HP-UX version or I could sneak it onto one of the work superdomes - the largest has 50 x 1Ghz cpus and about 90Gb ram at the last count!

Will DL the win version when I get home. (provided its not gonna kill my hl2 )

On the task bar (bottom right) right click the icon, and pause or quit

Don't you just power power cuts...died at 19:06...about 10mins after I left the dam thing.

I have it running as a service, just start and stop it...

The FAH client tends to behave itself very nicely in that it is supposed to take idle time only. Running it as a service sure is the best way to avoid getting any challenges graphically. The GUI client has been known to cause issues sometimes as it uses some stupid graphics library.

Chugging along quietly and now at 40/250, whatever that means. :confused:

The FAH client tends to behave itself very nicely in that it is supposed to take idle time only. Running it as a service sure is the best way to avoid getting any challenges graphically. The GUI client has been known to cause issues sometimes as it uses some stupid graphics library.

The GUI client keeps crashing on mine - it's going

Is the non-gui one configurable to run as a screensaver only? I recognise the apparent contradiction in terms there, but I can't afford to have things clogging up my PC even at low priority - UD used to make .net web services behave strangely if running all the time....

The GUI client keeps crashing on mine - it's going

Is the non-gui one configurable to run as a screensaver only? I recognise the apparent contradiction in terms there' date=' but I can't afford to have things clogging up my PC even at low priority - UD used to make .net web services behave strangely if running all the time....[/quote']

Im running the command line client.. as a service, and monitoring it using a app called electron microscope.

EM3 is written by Larry - nice guy

The GUI client requires the latest drivers from ATI/NV as it is not as good.

The 'no-nonsense' version running as a service is by far the most stable option which causes the fewest issues.

The priority of the client is 'idle' rather than 'low' which means it does not impact on web services (I run this thing on every PC I am allowed to run it on, including critical ones, and with that non-nonsense client it doesn't cause any issues).

I will have to check if you can get the service to only run when the PC is idle, I don't think that's an option at the moment however sorry :(

@Nick - register on the folding community site and post a bug report with some information about your problems, when it happens, that kinda thing, plus perhaps ask for a client improvement to have the service version only running when the screen saver is active. Requests do get taken seriously (although they are sometimes pretty slow to implement them) and I can push up the priority a little by going on about it

Denis you've got a little one!

Mine is currently at 1050/2500 :eek:

Denis you've got a little one!

Mine is currently at 1050/2500 :eek:

Now at 70/250 and I see my CPU (Athlon 64 3500) is running at 100%.

Now at 70/250 and I see my CPU (Athlon 64 3500) is running at 100%.

:eek: - looks like my results will begin to slip when peoples wu get submitted

What is this strange beast i see?

Big WUs tend to get a bigger credit - they don't always get it right but it's usually reasonably fair

Will see how long it takes you guys to get into the top 1000 teams, shouldnt take long if the whole site signs up

Yey, produced my first WU! Need more power, need more power

:confused: :confused: ...........I'm sorry , but I really don't have a clue what this thread is about.....................am I the only one ...??

:confused: :confused: ...........I'm sorry , but I really don't have a clue what this thread is about.....................am I the only one ...??

That I don't know...I can try and explain the principle behind it though.

All over the world, there is computer processing power which is being unused.

Similarly, there are lots of projects which require serious "number crunching", and these would normally be performed at great expense on a supercomputer (or similar).

So instead, these projects write small client programs which sit on people's computers...these small programs utilise unused processing power, and report the results back to the main computer...this is known as distributed computing...

Hope this helps things make more sense!

Rob.

Ack well a typo and case sensitivty issue has meant I'm starting over...

whitespider exists, the user name search does respect case, so when I looked for WhiteSpider it was free. But stats for WhiteSpider go to whitespider.

Team 52567 will have a nice surprise when they form :(

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If you want to know more about it, check out http://folding.stanford.edu or http://forum.folding-community.org

Added my 1.6 Centrino laptop to the effort, for what it's worth.