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#181 User is offline   Yourhighness 

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 03:52 PM

Hmmh, so does anyone use the GUI or console one? If so, does anyone has a guide with pictures (console one). I killed the GUI one for now as it said it would use extra cpu...

-edit- added pic to ask about whats what :thumbsup:

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Which way is what and whats best?

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 05:50 PM

Hi Yourhighness,

Way back on page one of this thread,under "Tips and Tricks For Folding", it says to Slide Molecule Draw rate all the way to the left.
This is so that the CPU/GPU aren't spending time drawing molecules when they could be folding.

Folding@Home~Wiki has alot of great information.

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 06:37 PM

Congrats BlackSpyder!! :thumbsup:
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Posted 08 February 2007 - 09:38 PM

Technically # 11 but #1 w/ you guys.

YourHighness I used the teminal (textbased) one for along time and I perfer the GUI version b/c it is easier to control the the amount of CPU used.
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Posted 08 February 2007 - 09:55 PM

Good to have you on the team BlackSpyder :thumbsup:

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 12:51 AM

Crongratulations on having your first WU completed.BlackSpyder.
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Posted 12 February 2007 - 05:48 PM

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On mine, I have the CPU percentage about 95% so I can still do normal activities while having F@H running. When I go to sleep I crank it up to 100%.

Also if you close out of Folding@Home a lot reduce the amount of time it waits before it does a checkpoint. It will increase the amount of time it writes to the hard drive, but it will save every little bit of work you do.

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 11:08 PM

Does the less 5% make that big of a difference?
I keep it on 100% while surfing and have not had any trouble.
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Posted 12 February 2007 - 11:09 PM

A couple of good tips yano. Thank You!

There has been alot of work in Folding@home by the Bleeping Computer Team #38444 lately.
So I thought everyone would like to see an update of the Team Stats.

On Feb 12th at 7:40 pm pst the Stats are as follows,

Team members
Rank.(within team)
User/ Score/ Work Units
1. yanowhiz 54237/ 303
2. HuckerJ 49144/ 532
3. Canoeingkidd 16117/ 113
4. Frankie12 16087/ 114
5. boopme 10903/ 60
6. Grinler 7780/ 69
7. ddeerrff 6284/ 34
8. rowal5555 4800/ 22
9. JE_Services 3858/ 38
10. TMacK 2382/ 21
11. MrAlpha 1090/ 17
12. DSTM 769/ 2
13. tink 745/ 3
14. Grunt 611/ 5
15. Blackspyder 578/ 2
16. thatman 316/ 1
17. Lawrence_Abrams 236/ 1
18. phawgg 231/ 1

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 06:26 PM

I need the 5% because when I "normally" use my computer I do a lot of things. I have music playing, GAIM, Firefox, Anti-Virus, Gtalk, and sometimes other programs... (word, flash, picasa, etc..)

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 10:01 PM

The only things I can't do while F@H is running is check my Virtual Villagers and play Yahoo Pool. (Based on what I've tried :thumbsup: )
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Posted 14 February 2007 - 03:37 AM

Good to have you with us Johannes!! :flowers:

Congrats on completion of your first WU!! :thumbsup:
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Posted 14 February 2007 - 03:58 PM

Great to have you on board Yourhighness!

BTW, which version did you end up running?

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Posted 14 February 2007 - 04:00 PM

Also if anyone wants to look at specific details / statistics try this:

http://fahstats.com/

I believe someone posted it earlier in this topic, forget who though. Just thought of mentioning the site again.

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Posted 14 February 2007 - 05:09 PM

Folding@Home Client Version 5.03

now am at 160/2000

Had it gone dead bout three times tho. was at 500 of 5000 once and i had the pc to turn itself off at like 3 am. Booting it up next morning and it was all gone :thumbsup:
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