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by **biostudent84** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:21 pm

I'm getting 24 seconds a frame. But that's just on my laptop.

1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 32 MB Video Memory.

We'll see what it does on my desktop. It's a bit more powerful.

by **mith** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:25 pm

A t-1 is 1.5 mbits/sec
A t-3 is 45 mbits/sec

My computer is taking like 5 mins per frame and it's a new 3.2ghz laptop

by **b_d_41501** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:34 pm

I do believe it is a T1.

by **biostudent84** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:37 pm

mithrilhack wrote:A t-1 is 1.5 mbits/sec
A t-3 is 45 mbits/sec

My computer is taking like 5 mins per frame and it's a new 3.2ghz laptop

Yep, but he was talking in megabytes a second.

How much video memory do you have? That is where most bottlenecks of this kind of program occur.

by **b_d_41501** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:45 pm

256 MB Video Memory
512 MB RAM
Pentium 4, 2.40 Ghz

by **biostudent84** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:50 pm

b_d_41501 wrote:256 MB Video Memory
512 MB RAM
Pentium 4, 2.40 Ghz

Is it a 64-bit processor? I need one of those.

by **b_d_41501** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:02 pm

Yeah, i think it is. It is definitely nice. Mine's a Dell

by **biostudent84** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:16 pm

b_d_41501 wrote:Yeah, i think it is. It is definitely nice. Mine's a Dell

64-bit processors only came out within the last few months. I have a dell laptop that's less than a year old and it doesn't have one...

by **Zachthemac** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:45 pm

I had a 7500 frame WU like I said earlier and it only took around 2 days (my proc isn't all that fast either), because larger WUs use the GROMACs core, which is faster, rather than the AMBER core that smaller WUs use. So processor isn't the only thing that affects speed, the work unit itself has a role.

For some calculations, gromacs affords benefits over the current code in Folding@Home (the current code is based on Jay Ponder's Tinker), especially a great speed increase (perhaps up to 10x-20x). This will substantially increase the power of Folding@Home for many calculations.

http://folding.stanford.edu/gromacs.html

by **biostudent84** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:36 am

I want to get one of those overclocked video cards and try the program out. I'm sure it would work wonders, not only for that, but for my gaming

by **b_d_41501** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:34 am

Definitely for gaming

by **Chris4** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:29 am

biostudent84 wrote:I want to get one of those overclocked video cards and try the program out. I'm sure it would work wonders, not only for that, but for my gaming

Overclocking may cause your system to become unstable and overheat and running this program could cause your whole system to crash. But I guess if you overclock it properly it should be stable

Thats what i read on the Folding@home forum...
Would be great for gaming

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