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Ever feel like your CPU can handle anything thrown at it with ease?
Well, lets see it crunch this. That's right. The OCforums Folding Team (team32) needs your help! You can use your spare CPU cycles to aid research, and more importantly, OCFORUMS!
What is Folding?
Read this:
Folding@Home: Fold it like you stole it, save a life in the process! From the O/Community section. Here is a summary of it:
When your CPU sits idle when you aren't doing anything, or isn't getting 100 percent used, all that extra power you acheived through hard earned money or overclocking isn't even being used! You can idle on the Windows XP desktop just as well on a Pentium 3 as you can with a Core2Extreme.
Folding @ Home (FAH), doesn't slow your system down at all. It has a very low priority on the processes list, in fact, probably the lowest. Meaning, that if your system is idling and not using up any CPU at all, Folding will use 100 percent. If you open up Firefox and it breifly needs 25 percent of the CPU, Folding will drop to 75 percent, then let firefox get the other 25 percent, or whatever it needs. Even running benchmarks with FAH running, it will give you a slightly lower score, but just mainly because FAH is taking up a little memory. It hardly slows the CPU at all.
So does, anyone want to see their fancy CPU put to good use by possibly saving some lives in the future, and helping out the OCforums team?
Also, I will be perfectly honest with you all, under load your CPU will run warmer, so keep an eye on temperatures. I don't know of any modern processor (or even any old ones) that can't handle anything more than 55-60 °C. The only thing it might affect is your overclock, FAH will show you truely if your overclock is stable or not. But it shouldn't be used solely as a stability tester because unstable results can set back the project instead of help it. Just keep a closer eye on your temps and you will be fine. But then again, if your system can handle SuperPi, 3dmark, or your favorite new game, chances are you will plug along in FAH like a champ just fine!
Also running at constant load means your CPU will run at the same temperature all the time. Which shouldn't make a difference, but if it does, it is even better on the CPU. Ever seen your core temps jump 10 degrees °C then fall 10 within a time period of a few seconds? Well, that is what happens when your CPU goes from 0 to 100 back to 0 load when you open a new application. As for security, FAH is secure! Also, it just runs as a background service, you don't have to do anything at all. Most people also think that this is going to be downloading huge files, the CPU zips through it in 10 seconds and it re-uploads. NOPE! FAH will crunch for days before sending in and getting a new work unit. Heck, I fold on my dialup computers no problem at all.
OCForums, or Team32 is and has been number 3 in the WORLD for sevral years now. We have come close to the top 2 in the past, but currently, the top 2 are wiping us out, each almost producing double our production. And another team, Maximum PC is starting to gain on us. Let's show them what OUR CPU's really can do! 
Here is the ultimate installer guide: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=231247
But here are the ones that most of you will probably use:
Single CPU Single Core
Dual CPU OR Dual core OR Hyper Threading
Quad CPU OR 2 Dual core CPU's, or 1 dual core CPU with Hyper Threading
Just edit the client.cfg file if you want the stats to register under your name, or if not, just click on the install and you are set!
Well, lets see it crunch this. That's right. The OCforums Folding Team (team32) needs your help! You can use your spare CPU cycles to aid research, and more importantly, OCFORUMS!
What is Folding?
Read this:
Folding@Home: Fold it like you stole it, save a life in the process! From the O/Community section. Here is a summary of it:
NASsoccer said:
When your CPU sits idle when you aren't doing anything, or isn't getting 100 percent used, all that extra power you acheived through hard earned money or overclocking isn't even being used! You can idle on the Windows XP desktop just as well on a Pentium 3 as you can with a Core2Extreme.
Folding @ Home (FAH), doesn't slow your system down at all. It has a very low priority on the processes list, in fact, probably the lowest. Meaning, that if your system is idling and not using up any CPU at all, Folding will use 100 percent. If you open up Firefox and it breifly needs 25 percent of the CPU, Folding will drop to 75 percent, then let firefox get the other 25 percent, or whatever it needs. Even running benchmarks with FAH running, it will give you a slightly lower score, but just mainly because FAH is taking up a little memory. It hardly slows the CPU at all.
So does, anyone want to see their fancy CPU put to good use by possibly saving some lives in the future, and helping out the OCforums team?
Also, I will be perfectly honest with you all, under load your CPU will run warmer, so keep an eye on temperatures. I don't know of any modern processor (or even any old ones) that can't handle anything more than 55-60 °C. The only thing it might affect is your overclock, FAH will show you truely if your overclock is stable or not. But it shouldn't be used solely as a stability tester because unstable results can set back the project instead of help it. Just keep a closer eye on your temps and you will be fine. But then again, if your system can handle SuperPi, 3dmark, or your favorite new game, chances are you will plug along in FAH like a champ just fine!
Also running at constant load means your CPU will run at the same temperature all the time. Which shouldn't make a difference, but if it does, it is even better on the CPU. Ever seen your core temps jump 10 degrees °C then fall 10 within a time period of a few seconds? Well, that is what happens when your CPU goes from 0 to 100 back to 0 load when you open a new application. As for security, FAH is secure! Also, it just runs as a background service, you don't have to do anything at all. Most people also think that this is going to be downloading huge files, the CPU zips through it in 10 seconds and it re-uploads. NOPE! FAH will crunch for days before sending in and getting a new work unit. Heck, I fold on my dialup computers no problem at all.
OCForums, or Team32 is and has been number 3 in the WORLD for sevral years now. We have come close to the top 2 in the past, but currently, the top 2 are wiping us out, each almost producing double our production. And another team, Maximum PC is starting to gain on us. Let's show them what OUR CPU's really can do!
Here is the ultimate installer guide: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=231247
But here are the ones that most of you will probably use:
Single CPU Single Core
Dual CPU OR Dual core OR Hyper Threading
Quad CPU OR 2 Dual core CPU's, or 1 dual core CPU with Hyper Threading
Just edit the client.cfg file if you want the stats to register under your name, or if not, just click on the install and you are set!
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