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[IglooDame]

I get the following for $260 delivered:

Refurb Intel 915G ATX mobo w/ embedded video/LAN/USB
2.8GHz Celeron D processor
2 x 512MB DDR2 RAM
128MB USB flash drive
300W power supply
bit of plywood to mount everything on
cheap desk fan to blow air across everything

I suppose for $300 we could go the luxury route and get an EIDE hard drive for it, too.

Hmmm... Wonder if two of those would get into the same folding ballpark as your dual 3800?

 

[ironduck]

Any of you guys care to build me a new computer and deliver it to me across the pond?

Everytime I buy a new computer the fan (or several of them) always break and it spends the next couple of years coughing.. even though I specifically buy luxury fans.

Btw Igloo, who is the girl in your avatar?

 

[Speedo]

Hmmm... Wonder if two of those would get into the same folding ballpark as your dual 3800?

Doubt it

For the purposes of F@H the 3800 should be roughly the equal of two 3200 single cores, and those should easily outpace a Celeron 2.8

 

[IglooDame]

Doubt it

For the purposes of F@H the 3800 should be roughly the equal of two 3200 single cores, and those should easily outpace a Celeron 2.8

Yeah, good point. Okay, I'll go with your specs, except I'll skip the case and go with more RAM instead.

@ironduck - I'd take you up on it, except I have no way of testing out PCs on your residential electrical power. And the avatar is Boomer from the new Battlestar Galactica series, played by Grace Park.

 

[Speedo]

Okay, I'll go with your specs, except I'll skip the case and go with more RAM instead.

Why bother? F@H certainly doesn't need it.

 

[IglooDame]

Why bother? F@H certainly doesn't need it.

My sense was the more RAM, the better, particularly where the advanced methods tag is used.

I'm thinking that with identical-except-for-RAM boxes, I may be able to swing a lab test.


And if anyone has been holding off, now is a good time to join up, we're closing in on getting in the top-2000 teams (out of ~42,000 teams total) and can use every few points we can get!

 

[Blasphemous]

Civ4 is stealing my CPU cycles along with my time and social life.

 

[IglooDame]

Civ4 is stealing my CPU cycles along with my time and social life.

Well of course, thus the term "CivFanatic". But you do sleep at some point, right?

 

[Blasphemous]

Well of course, thus the term "CivFanatic". But you do sleep at some point, right?

So far, I have only had the game during this Hanukka vacation that is currently coming to a close. Tomorrow is back to school, life, reality, dredgery, etc. I dread the thought of needing to balance Civ4 with things that aren't at home.

 

[IglooDame]

So far, I have only had the game during this Hanukka vacation that is currently coming to a close. Tomorrow is back to school, life, reality, dredgery, etc. I dread the thought of needing to balance Civ4 with things that aren't at home.

Yeppers.

But, the silver lining is that you can set your PC to start folding while you're at school.

 

[Speedo]

My sense was the more RAM, the better, particularly where the advanced methods tag is used.

I dunno. I haven't used that, granted, but I'm sitting here with two instances of F@H running and using a total of <50MB of memory.

If you do a barebones install of Win2k and strip down everything unnecessary, you should have windows using <100MB memory... and I can't imagine F@H doing anything that would require more than 400MB

I'm thinking that with identical-except-for-RAM boxes, I may be able to swing a lab test.

I'll be interested in seeing the results.

 

[ironduck]

Walk before you run, fold before you kilofold.

Kilofold accomplished!

 

[Speedo]

I find it interesting how they do the scoring. I mean, I've done exactly half the WUs of VRWCAgent, but I've got 7/8ths the points he does. Strange.

 

[Godwynn]

I find it interesting how they do the scoring. I mean, I've done exactly half the WUs of VRWCAgent, but I've got 7/8ths the points he does. Strange.

The WU's have different scores depending on how long it takes them to be completed.

 

[Abaddon]

yea, you can get tiny ones (50/50) which are worth diddly squat, compared to the (3000/3000) ones

 

[IglooDame]

I'll be interested in seeing the results.

I'll see if I can get something going. I've got two 2.8GHz Xeon boxes, one with 1GB RAM and one with 2GB, but they're not quite identical and the 2GB one is plugged into a UPS with an unfortunate tendency to power-cycle anything plugged into it every several hours. Also, I've got two or three pairs of the Celerons that are truly identical and stable, except that I don't have spare 128MB sticks sitting around, old RAM is precious around here. If I can fix either of those circumstances, I will, and I'll set them apart named as Elephant and Goldfish or something like that.

 

[El_Machinae]

Has VRWCAgent put all the programs on his family's computers by now? I hope he doesn't run into any hiccups.

 

[IglooDame]

I'll be interested in seeing the results.

You have any sense of the cleanest way to nuke the existing work unit and have it start from scratch? I've got two goldfish and two elephants ready and they might as well take off from the starting line at the same time.

 

[ironduck]

You guys are the very incarnation of nerds

 

[IglooDame]

You guys are the very incarnation of nerds

Flattery will get you nowhere.