This and that and Chat

[Bovinia]

Yay!! You know you gots my love 5c You too mod...come on, you can doo eeeettt!

Sash, I should know by now that if you want something read, do not make it a stickie!! LOL

 

[5cardstud]

Well here is something I read that you people should know if your using a laptop and leave it on 24/7 for folding.

Specifically batteries and temperature/fans. Always fold on AC and never on batteries. Make sure that the pause folding upon battery option turned on to protect your batteries from being drained accidentally. Make sure that the heat the laptop produces has somewhere to go and monitor its temperature. As long as it stays reasonable there isn't a problem

I'm just leaving that other PC on 24/7.

 

[sashwa]

I learned that years ago, Bov.

 

[sashwa]

Well here is something I read that you people should know if your using a laptop and leave it on 24/7 for folding.

And if you are going to fold on a laptop, then you should use a cooling pad for it and keep it plugged in.

 

[Modrod.]

Your computer would feel more useful if you folded on it, Mod.

Yay!! You know you gots my love 5c You too Mod...come on, you can doo eeeettt!

Sash, I should know by now that if you want something read, do not make it a stickie!! LOL

I would but I'm part of another team.

 

[sashwa]

Then you are forgiven, Mod. (((Hugs)))

I was folding with another team since since 2005. But I switched over to ecf when this team was started. But I'm doing Boinc for WCG and RAH for them now.

 

[5cardstud]

Then you are forgiven, Mod. (((Hugs)))

I was folding with another team since since 2005. But I switched over to ecf when this team was started. But I'm doing Boinc for WCG and RAH for them now.

WCG and RAH, aren't those Pro Wrestling Associations?

 

[sashwa]

WCG is World Community Grid - They crunch for cancer and other stuff

RAH is Rosetta @ Home - Cancer research also

 

[5cardstud]

Okay now look at this picture I took off my other PC. It says progress 0.00% so is my PC sitting there running for nothing?

 

[sashwa]

You gotta give it some time to show your progress. I use the FAHControl to see my progress. That one uses resources that I would rather folding use. But that's me.

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[5cardstud]

Ya I'm up to 1.45% I'll see what it is in the morn. Night All. Sweet dreams.

 

[Bovinia]

Good for you Mod! Yep I use the FaH control panel to check mine too, but I do peek at the viewer once in a while.

When I had my laptop folding, I had it on a rack and removed the battery pack. It's only got 1 processor so it stayed cool just fine. I took it off the grid tho because it's not worth the electricity to run it 24/7 for the small amount of points it was adding.

 

[5cardstud]

Well I watched Cloud Atlas and other than the makeup and parts Hanks played the movie for me was not my cup of tea. Just too many scripts going on at the same time.

 

[arkador]

so, what the heck is folding? An app that steals my resources for charity?

 

[908Tracy]

I don't quite understand it either ark!

 

[5cardstud]

so, what the heck is folding? An app that steals my resources for charity?

No it's letting cancer research use part of your processor to help find a cure for cancer. As you know your processor has a lot of unused processes that can be used and you don't even know they are there. It doesn't affect anything your doing. They just use a pinch of it but all those little pinches add up when they run them on a few million pc's.

 

[5cardstud]

I don't quite understand it either ark!

Folding@home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now look what Bovinia has done to me. Turning me into a spokesman for folding@home.

 

[sashwa]

Bov knew what she was doing when she poked you, 5C.

 

[arkador]

Unused? It is taking 100% of all 5 cores, and my hard drive sounds like it is going to rattle itself apart! my CPU doesn't even go that high when I am converting BluRay video!
it is even using 100% of my video card's GPU!

Reinstalled it on my SSD before it blows up my disk.

Estimates me at 14000 points/day though.

 

[5cardstud]

Better check the settings on the preferences. It doesn't take a fraction of that from mine. I wouldn't even know it was on there if I didn't look. You can set the limits and processor heat on the preferences.

Bov knew what she was doing when she poked you, 5C.