139 Hours?!?!?!?!?!!?!??

[Punk]

Ok, so this afternoon while i was folding on my AMD ATHLON 1333 @ 1433MHz computer, i thought that i would go ahead and install F@H on the intel pentium 2 400MHz family computer downstairs, so that i could get another folding machine going. So i went down and installed F@H console version and Electron Microscope and set them up so that they would run in stealth mode all the time so nobody else would know it was there and couldn't close the program. Well, everthing was going fine, so i left it running all day and decided to go down and check on it a few minutes ago, so i brought it out of stealth mode and it was ONLY 16% finished the work unit and has 139 HOURS LEFT BEFORE ITS FINISHED!!!!! which means that it won't be finished until sept 2!!!! So even if it does finish by then, it will be too late because of the expiry date thingy. So anyone got any ideas on how i could speed up folding these units?? Does it usually take this long for a 400MHz machine?? Only takes me 3 hours for a w/u on my AMD computer.:eek:

[Ebola]

its a katami right. should be able to do 600 mhz then. overclock it. :)

[Punk]

can't really overclock the 400, since it's the family computer, i would probably get in trouble because the rest of my family doesn't understand overclocking and would probably think it would blowup the computer or something.

[burn'em]

I run a PPro 200 mhz and it finishes WU in time I also run a PII 450 it works fine. I don't use EM. I don't know if EM slows it down. but if it did no one would use it. Your 400mhz should finish it time it might just be an EM error. Let it run all night you should be ok.

[Punk]

ya i will see what its at in the morning. If it's still this slow, then i will try without EM.

[1g_raider]

I'm running a K6-2 300 with the FSB pushed up to run it @ 420. It finished its last w/u ( BBalphaUAHT ) in 23.5 Hrs.

It took about 36 Hrs. on the other w/u's we had about a week ago. Just let it run it's course and see.

Good Luck !

[SickBoy]

I ran my dual P2 400 work box on folding with 2 instances (one for each cpu) and most of the longer proteins took about 16-17 hours.... so I was doing like 10 or maybe 15 WU/day. Your family's P2 should be alright, if the thing has an accessible BIOS and easy thing to do would be to use ctSPD, check the SPD rating on the RAM and if its rated for CAS2 set it to that. It's not overclocking..... :) just tweaking.

SickBoy

[WillysNut]

Hey punk...welcome to the team by the way...anyways..is the family pc running 24/7? If not, you will probably not make the required time. Your Athlon screams through a WU while it's running and chances are, even if you shut it off now and then, your units will still complete.

Stanford has to set a timeperiod to be sure all the data is back to be analyzed by a given date. The bottom line for folding 24/7 seems to be around 200-233MHz depending on the Protein being folded.

[Punk]

No, the family computer isn't on 24/7, it gets shutdown @ night and basically stays on all day. But my Athlon stays on 24/7 except when i upgrade it or have to reboot. So im thinking if the family computer's speed in folding isn't gonna increase, then it's probably not worth using it as a 2nd folding machine.

[Flanagun]

Ya i decided to do the same thing the p3 500 could finish a wu a day but it mysteriously kept being shut off.... i think its still on its 2nd wu.