Question? Does RAM have any influence on how fast a work unit is completed

[Steveo989]

In a hope to add more ppd I added some of my old ram so I am at 768mb of pc 133ram on a 800mhz. I was wondering if it completes it faster because it can download the work Unit in head of time. Just theories remember I am new to F@H only one WU completed so far. :D

[Steveo989]

Any Responses Are Appreciated.
Thanks,
Steven

[Mr.Guvernment]

no, when you download WU it does not store it in your ram, it goes to your harddrive.

Folding seems to like faster FSB speeds.

[veryhumid]

the the folding cores used to do the processing only work one one unit at a time, and the data gets written to the hard drive as it gets done. Your best bet for more ppd is just more MHz. Thanks for folding with us!!! ::attn:

[TalRW]

I can only see RAM contributing in one way, if you have a gig of RAM (512 works for a dedicated folder) you could enable big packets (as far as I know they aren't being distributed anymore) and because they take up more resources and RAM you would get more PPD

[ChasR]

More ram will only make a difference if the computer was swapping to virtual memory before its addition. Even then, more ram will only cut a few seconds off each frame. Bigpackets works fine in 512MB with a single instance folding. On a P4 with 512MB and two instances folding, you will see a degredation in performance if both instances are bigpackets.

Tal,
There are currently large numbers of big packets available to those with the -advmethods flag set and bigpackets=yes in the client.cfg file.
They are:
p1134_RIBO_FSpeptide_EXT
p1135_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL p1134
p1140_RIBO_FSpeptide_EXT_nospring
p1141_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL_nospring
All are worth 600 pts.

[Steveo989]

OOOOOOOOOoooooooo I am downloading the dos so I can get big packets enabled yeah! 600 points UMMMMM(homers Voice)

[-=Mr_B=-]

A dedicated folding rig can currently run bigpackets (those that use most memory and harddrive space) if you have 256Mb ram, over that, it dosent make a diff...

Best of luck.
B!