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[awsum140]

That depends on what the actual power draw of the PC is and what your electric rate might be. I don't want to think about it in terms of what it might be costing. I think about it in terms of what I might be able to contribute to, in some small way, to unscrewing some of the inscrewtables.

 

[3mg Meniere]

That depends on what the actual power draw of the PC is and what your electric rate might be. I don't want to think about it in terms of what it might be costing. I think about it in terms of what I might be able to contribute to, in some small way, to unscrewing some of the inscrewtables.

How is the puppy?

 

[awsum140]

Welcome to folding, 3mg, forgot that when answering before.

Thanks for asking about Leo. He's doing fine, getting big, 138+lb last week when we had him at the vet for routine stuff. We have to keep an eye on his weight since he's growing/gaining constantly and his meds, heartworm, flea/tick, are dosed based on weight. He'll keep growing, more slowly, for the next year or so and will remain a puppy, maybe even a little longer. Large/giant breed mature more slowly. He can be a handful at times, think that cute, little, 15 pound puppy jumping around and playing only times ten, basically. I live in shorts during the summer and my legs have the scars to prove it.

 

[3mg Meniere]

OK. I have been running it in Chrome. Thinking of running it from desktop. What are the advantages of that? I have plenty of space on my computer. Biggest thing is when I am streaming TV shows, I can keep it at full speed with a few slow-downs. But wondering if that would be better if I made the switch.

 

[awsum140]

It depends on the processor and video card. Generally speaking, a quad core CPU will do up to 10K per day but usually less. If you have a higher end video card, Cuda or better, you can get 30K per day and up with a 1080Ti topping out at about 1,000,000 points a day. Personally, using GPUs for folding, I've found letting the CPU fold is counter productive since it stops the CPU from having enough cycles, time, to manage the PCI buss demands of the GPUs which slows them down more than the gain of the CPU processing.

All that said, I fold on an i5 laptop, which doesn't have a GPU capable of folding, and it does between 5 and 10K per day depending on the type of work unit. I fold on it since it's on all day, anyway, and it might help somehow.

 

[3mg Meniere]

It depends on the processor and video card. Generally speaking, a quad core CPU will do up to 10K per day but usually less. If you have a higher end video card, Cuda or better, you can get 30K per day and up with a 1080Ti topping out at about 1,000,000 points a day. Personally, using GPUs for folding, I've found letting the CPU fold is counter productive since it stops the CPU from having enough cycles, time, to manage the PCI buss demands of the GPUs which slows them down more than the gain of the CPU processing.

All that said, I fold on an i5 laptop, which doesn't have a GPU capable of folding, and it does between 5 and 10K per day depending on the type of work unit. I fold on it since it's on all day, anyway, and it might help somehow.

You went waay over my head, as usual.
When folding on Chrome, I can only change the speed at which it is folding or stop it. I downloaded it, and can click on folding while nothing else is running, and am reasonably confident that it is doing so. On Chrome, I was a bit over 6,000 a day (24 hr), so I will have to wait and see. I have a reconditioned Dell Optiplex 390, probably from a school deal.

 

[awsum140]

All I can say is to give it a try and see what happens. Maybe you got lucky and got an upgraded video card. If so, when you install folding on it you'll see the GPU show up in the configuration page. The CPU should be able to do three or four thousand a day. Windows has a bigger "overhead" and does slow things down a bit. The "pro" folders use Linux or Unbutu for an operating system because they allow faster folding speeds, lighter CPU loading and better PCI bus handling I think. Chrome, being a Linux (open) style system, is letting your Chrome book do a nice job for a smaller device.

 

[retired1]

We need you, Retired1, the more the merrier!

Officially back online with a full time connection and should break into the ECF top 100 sometime tonight.

Need to set the notebook up as well.

 

[awsum140]

Welcome back to the "fold"!

 

[3mg Meniere]

My computer doesn't like the program for whatever the reason. So I am still running it in the Chrome browser, at about 5,000 a day. I record it when I get online every morning, usually around 6:45.

 

[awsum140]

As long as you're folding, 3mg. That's what counts. Welcome to the "fold"!

 

[retired1]

I had issues with the linux client not wanting to send a WU for GPU processing. So for the time being, I have it set up under winderz. One of these days, I'll take a deep look as to why the Linux client is misbehaving.

 

[awsum140]

I use Winderz and haven't delved into Linux for a while, about 20 years. I think that when support for Win7 goes away I'll have to look into Linux. I hate Winderz 10 with a passion. I have seen some problems mentioned on the folding@home board with the Linux client so you might want to have a look over there.

We got you back, now if we can get irwink back, too, the team will start making some real progress again.

 

[retired1]

10 isn't too bad once you rip some things out by the roots and tame it a bit. But yeah, MS has taken a direction that makes me suspect that Winderz will end up as a service, not an OS.

Linux has come a long way, even since I started using it full time on the home front (over 10 years ago). Unless you're into gaming, it's entirely possible to go entirely Linux these days and not have any issues.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Is there anything I (with limited computer proficiency) can do to my W10 so that I can run it there rather than my browser? I would think it would be a lot more efficient if I could get it to work.

 

[retired1]

What happened when you tried to install the F@H client?

 

[3mg Meniere]

When I tried to open it, all I could get was a flashing image of the beginning screen. And trying to open it from the icon on desktop got nothing-- nada.

 

[retired1]

Did you try to open the web control or FAH Control?

 

[3mg Meniere]

??

 

[retired1]

OK. Let's do this first.

Press your Windows key + the letter R. A box will pop up for the run command. Type Dxdiag in that box and press enter. Let it run to completion, click Save, and then upload the file here as an attachment.