Can an AMD 300mghz fold?

hafaphoto

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I recently built my new computer, and have everything but some motherboard mounting screws and a modem missing from old faithfull! Is a 300Mgz worth setting up for folding?

If it is, would I be better off buying a modem, or trying to network the older computer in with my current one?

I am using dialup, and have a network card on my new computer, but only have one modem that I snagged off the old puter.


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(oh yeah, very low on cash)

 

OCn00b

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The 300mhz computer will fold fine if it's idle all the time. It would probably be easier to put a $5 nic in it and use your main computer as a gateway. It's easy to do, just go through the ICS wizard and it does everything for you basically.

 

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Definitely network the two together and use ICS. It will make the deadlines if it is left on 24/7

 

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It will work, just really slowly. I would think about setting it up as a Smoothwall box and getting a Hub so you have a network to add more fast folding rigs on to.

 

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He said that he is low on cash, so I don't think he's gonna add any more rigs.

But I agree with the above, network it with the other computer and leave it on day/night.

 

Quailane

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Can a 233Mhz Pentium Pro 256k on-die l2 cache run as a Smoothwall box? I have one runnig F@H and it seems ok.

 

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Yea, it'l run smoothwall. I just got mine up also. It was a p-pro 180, at 60mhz fsb, but i overclocked it to a 66mhz fsb and changed the multiplier, so its a 233 now. Just gets kinda hot while running F@H, had to install another fan on it. Smoothwall is pretty cool, makes it a lot easier for dial up, and seems a little quicker too, tho its probably not.

 

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Thanks for the help!

I will look into the network card. I think I might can o/c the 300 to about 350 or so, MAYBE. I may also be able to snag an Intel 300 mgz to hook in also. Both of the 300's will be on 24/7 folding only. I just need a cheap PSU (300 watt I think) for my old AMD.
The Intel has everything. What do I need to network 3 computers? Obviously the card for the AMD 300, The Intel 300 has a Nic, What else will I need? Maybe I should post in networking area for this info?

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

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Re: Thanks for the help!

hafaphoto said:

What do I need to network 3 computers? Obviously the card for the AMD 300, The Intel 300 has a Nic, What else will I need? Maybe I should post in networking area for this info?

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

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You'll need a switch. You can find lots of info on networking/ICS, etc in the networking area. I know I've posted step by steps for people before... I'll try to find them.

 

OCn00b

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If you have a spare nic, you could run 2 nics's on the middle computer and add the 3rd computer to the network. As long as getting the extra nic isn't a problem, that's probably the cheapest way to get them all accessing the net.

 

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hafaphoto

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Thanks!

Straight up, I have had a few beers tonight! Will look in the networking section Thursday! Thanks for the input!

Dang, now I need to learn networking stuff? It is all for a good cause, and I like learning new puter skills!

Have a good one! E

 

CharlesHF

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300 mega-gigahertz...of course that can fold!!

 

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hafaphoto

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Wish I had one!

I wish my old computer was a 300 mega gig computer! A typo on my part! Sorry!

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Quailane

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I wish I had a comp at 1 Yottahertz. It is 1 quadrillion times more than 1 Ghz. That is faster than the speeds of all the computers in the world ever made added up together by a very long shot.

 

JDXNC

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Quailane said:

Can a 233Mhz Pentium Pro 256k on-die l2 cache run as a Smoothwall box? I have one runnig F@H and it seems ok.

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Smoothwall will run on a 486, a Ppro is very good for smoothwall.