More Folding...

[Darwin]

It seems like our production is down.  The race was neck-and-neck for awhile between Me, Sleeprae, and Particle, but now it seems like they've nearly ceased producing anything.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main ... mnum=39013

You guys still doing it?

Oh, and if you want to join, please do

It wont slow down your games, I promise!

[Lucid]

sounds good, i'll join, but my question is, i want to run one and forget about it. Which one should i get? and how much drain is this program really going to cause?

[Hack-N-Slash]

Don't you make computers? You should slap some parts around your house together and dedicate a machine to it.

[Lucid]

I dont make computers, i run the web design department of a company that repairs/builds new comptuers, but i do have access to quite a few i could work for the project. However currently im feeling extremely lazy, hence my questions about how it works. (dunno why, excessive lazyness attack)

I barely mustered the energy to reply bleh.

[Darwin]

Heres the deal with folding@home, as I see it.

Whichever processor you are using, it will immediately pull back production in order to let you use your programs.  It will only use spare clock cycles, and have no performance impact whatsoever.  A graph I saw showed that it didnt  affect 3DMark03 scores at all.

Now...
On a P4 processor with HT, it doesnt even feel like the program is there, since it will only use 50% cpu while still having same output as an AMD of similar value.

On AMD processors, I would notice a slight hang when beginning to use my computer since it would be using 100% before noticing I was trying to do something.  No performance impact in the programs, just a slight hang while opening the programs sometimes.

[Particle]

Athlon XP-M 2600+ here @ 2.61GHz.  No noticable impact during use while folding is running.  Always gives up the CPU cycles to other processes when needed.

[-eViL-]

3200 barton with no problems at all.