[Pierre3400]

Hey folders,

10 years ago, i use to fold for team 32, but "quit", and joined the AoA team instead. Moved country and fully forgot about it.

Its been 10years now, and many things have happend. I now understand what i would be doing by folding, and what the prupose is. Back in the days i did it, to be cool like the rest of you guys.

I want to get back into folding, i feel like i got 2 decent pc's for folding.

I went over the "New Members start here" and hit FAQ.

This answered why we fold, but it failed to giv me an indication of how much of my pc power im lending away.

I play alot of APB, which uses alot of ram. I want to be able to play this while also folding, without having to upgrade any part of my pc.

For that matter any of my pcs that i would fold with.
Specs on both pc's appear in my signature.

Thank you.

[Sommelier]

You will be using 100% of your cpu while you fold. Some applications run fine, others not so much.

I have no idea what APB is, but if you're folding and it doesn't run right, just shut down the folding client while you APB (Awesome Peanut Butter?)

You don't need to upgrade anything, but the 930 with an H70 should be closer to 3.8 than it is to 2.8. If you get it up to 3.8 you should be able to run the -bigadv flag no problem even if you shut it down for a bit to APB.

If you go the -bigadv route it takes a couple days for a work unit to get done, so you really wouldn't want to shut it down for half a day and not make the deadline.

If the APB doesn't work while folding, maybe swap video cards on those rigs and play on the dual core with the 6950?

[Adak]

I'd recommend you fold SMP work units, but not bigadv (big advanced), and just close the FAH client when you want to play the APB (a shooter MMORPG).

How FAH works is, it uses the cpu only when your system seems unused. Say you're keyboarding a question onto the forum. FAH would then work:

1) with the cores that you aren't using, at that moment
2) with the same core you are using, between keystrokes (if you keyboard slow enough), and when you are thinking about what to say, but not hitting keys atm.

It takes FAH about 1/3rd of a second to stop, once it detects that you are using the core that it's working with. For light gaming, it's OK to leave it folding, but for games that require fast reactions and lots of action for the cpu, you'll want to stop FAH while you game. The busier your computer with other programs, the more you'll experience this lag, because your system will take longer to process FAH's requests to back off.

If you APB game is single threaded, then FAH can run at the same time you are gaming, no problem. If APB is multi-threaded, and uses all the cores as you play, then it's best to shut FAH off while you game.