How many PPD?

[Arlo_]

How many PPD is enough to justify the power to run the machine? I have two units folding 241 point work units right now that are averaging 145 Points Per Week! I am beginning to think that they are just not worth keeping on. I know that "every point counts", but really, where is the line?

Just lookin for opinions, And I know everyone has one. :)

[Sentential]

I know that "every point counts", but really, where is the line?
There IS no line:D anything you have counts for something. Keep folding!

[Arlo_]

Yeah, Ive got this pentium 100 in a box.... :p

I figure it would take about a month to load the program.... :bang head

[TalRW]

I've been wondering that too, cause I mean at a point if it's hardly producing anything it might not be worth the power costs.

[Seven]

Hmm...save yourself some power and buy yourself a new rig if that's the case. I have my machine running 600 pointers and it's averaging about 90PPD I guess you could say, but this is very intermittently. It takes about 2 weeks at my rate to finish one...so this isn't really what I'd call quick or speedy. I still do it for the fold though.

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[Arlo_]

I agree but this machine is putting out about 20 PPD. :rolleyes:

Others about 270 PPD. :cool:

Somewhere in there I begin to wonder if it is worth continuing with the ultra slow rig. :eh?:

I'm not saying I am giving up, just trying to um... look at this realistically.

[Gasoline]

Folding on a machine any lower than about the relative performance of a P-III 800MHz is mostly an exercise in futility.

[Audioaficionado]

I shut down a 550MHz PIII Xeon duallie because an AMD XP1700 Shuttle SFF spanked it several times a day while using a fraction of the kilowatts. Borging something that slow is OK if someone else is willing to pay the power bill. Now if it was my only rig, then I'd run it 24/7 until I could get a better one built.

[Arlo_]

Now if it was my only rig, then I'd run it 24/7 until I could get a better one built.

Now I agree 100% with this. :) The actual rig I am talking about is a celeron 400 that is just throwing out the rules and folding about 20 frames a day!! :rolleyes:

If it sat in someone elses house and it was their computer, I would not be questioning its output. but in my house it is sitting beside an opteron at 2.2Ghz that takes about 52 hours to do a 600pt. BP. just to put it into perspective.

[Audioaficionado]

I've got 7 clients folding on 3 machines that each do 1 frame/hr on those 600pt BPs. The eighth one just folds the regular WUs. For some reason it's the only one that gets those great amber cores. Amber cores seem to have the highest PPW of anything else other than a DG.