I think it's just that you guy's "tone" doesn't mesh well with this board. Sorry.

I'm surprised that that part actually translates into a written language.

Run away! Run away!

They really need to track/sort by number of processors used so that us sane people (read as: those who don't farm/borg) can have our own little competition.

Yeah, that's what I said about staying in the top 10... then the top 15... then the top 20...

This team scares me sometimes.

Radeonman: I peaked at #10 on the team list and am now am falling steadily (will drop out of the top 20 before the month's end). Just my single-processor silent gaming rig folding, too, when I'm not playing. There's no way people like us can compete with either the folding farm people or the people ...

Yeah, I remember the good old days when I actually had some personal conquests to look forward to... hehe. Of course we weren't ranked so highly back then!

Nowadays I check to make sure I haven't dropped down to 40 or so on our team rankings while I wasn't looking.

Smart Drive vs elastic suspension temperatures in MikeC's review here . Apparantly the aluminum Smart Drive is capable of conducting heat away from the harddrive better than the air-insulated elastic solutions. For my part, I used the Smart Drive to "salvage" my WD drive after I already bought it an...

Thanks for your input, AnthonyK!

No Luke! Beware of the Dark Side! Once you start buying more hardware to fold with, there's no turning back...

I have to second what 1HandClapping said about keeping the CPU heat out of the PSU. With my HSF in "suck" direction and the air ducted straight out the rear exhaust, the fan in my Nexus is spinning slow and quiet (not quite silent). If the PSU fan is running at full power all the time as you mention...

NoVibes and other suspension systems don't do anything to kill harddrive whine, but they're great for reducing vibration noises and seek noises. Smart Drives are usually hard-mounted to the case so vibration/seek noises carry right through. Smart Drives definitely run cooler. Check out MikeC's revie...

How about "enlisted" instead of "hijacked"?

Oil, vaseline, this silencing thing is really beginning to sound kinky...

Pentiums do better with Gromacs, and terribly with Tinker. Gromacs is newer, and takes better advantage of SSE. I've gotten 1 Tinker in the last 30-40 WU's after using -advmethods. Have you tried tallying how many Tinkers vs. Gromacs you've gotten? Maybe it's a fluke, assuming you have everything co...

Are there any website reviews for that thermal pad? I'd hate to break with traditional wisdom regarding thermal pads without seeing what people with more experience than me have to say about it...

Found it on another folding forum while I was doing a search and linked to it--I have neither the Photoshop skills nor the cruel wit to make something like that. :) I've seen a whole bunch of anti-kitten pictures on the web after this one made its rounds a while ago: http://www.io.com/~mvb/cats/wild...

We have 6 conquests coming up over the next 2 days. Happy folding!

Judging from the discussion on the folding farm thread, the most surefire way to increase your folding speed is to buy more hardware. :) Seriously though, aside from the -advmethods switch for P4's (which I swear by religiously), I think if there are any "hidden" ways to improve your performance by ...

Seriously, though, the whole point of distributed computing projects like folding or seti@home are that they use up extra CPU power. Building a farm defeats the purpose. But, it does sound like an interesting hobby. /me continues to let his one lonely computer fold when he's not gaming. :) It's ama...

They have a CFM-to-dB graph in the review, but isn't dB based on a log scale? I wonder how the ratios would look using actual measurements (rather than the ones in the manufacturer's specs) normalized for dB's log scale and with the measured background noise as the zero point for noise (since that w...

Heh, that WD drive is probably the noisiest component in your comp, WDs just love to whine whine whine Hear hear! (oops, bad pun...) Waiting to see the Samsung review to see if this will finally be the one to replace my WD, but I'd hate to give up too much speed. At this point though, anything woul...

Whichever direction we lie on the luminosity scale, I know where we lie on the noisiness scale.

Go team!

Radeonman: discounting Rusty's "supercomputer" (heh), I'm the guy to overtake if you're aiming to be "the biggest 1 processor man". I'm folding on a P4 2.4GHz, and I've heard that comparable Athlons outfold P4s, so with your XP2400/nForce2 setup it's very likely that given enough time, you can event...

Seeing all the pretty numbers all lined up makes me want to do some data sorting. :) We're probably in the top 50 in terms of points earned over the last 24 hours, but the gap between our current rank and rank #100 will still take some time to fill. There's very little movement in the top 75 ranks o...

Nifty!

It seems about right, riff--I mentioned elsewhere that it's averaging about 12 hours for my P4 2.4 to do a 33-unit Gromacs WU. I'm not using particularly fast memory and my mobo is an Asus P4PE. I'm not sure if any other factors affect folding speed. Assuming the computer isn't occupied by doing oth...

Ouch, 17 processors, and he's right about to overtake me. I bow down to bkh's superior GHz.

Go fredster!