A little out of my depth- help!

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A little out of my depth- help!

Post by Bobfantastic » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:22 am

Hello all-
I've been folding for SPCR for a little over a week now, and during that time I've finished 4 or 5 WU's. However, my latest unit seems to be a bit beyond my Athlon 3500+, and I'm wondering if there's any way to swap it for something a little more realistic?
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For anyone who cant spot the problem, have a look at when it's expecting to finish...
:oops:

Any ideas? I preferred the 500-frame WUs, there's a real sense of reward watching the points tick up, but this is just silly. I've already tried unchecking the "Allow receipt of work units greater than 5MB..." button, but it's not getting a new WU for me. :cry:
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Post by NeilBlanchard » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:53 am

Hello Bob,

That's a bigun -- but has it "sped" up at all? Early on, it may be using an estimate, which may not be accurate. I'd just grin and bear it and leave the large unit option unchecked, so your next one isn't so big. Four (out of six) of my machines are significantly slower than yours: Athlon XP 2100+ (oc's to 2gHz), Athlon 1400, Athlon "Classic" 700, and -- AMD K6/3 400! :shock:

Persistence is the key!
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Post by peteamer » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:09 am

Hi Bob, as Neil says it will probably look better later... it might just be a chewy/crunchy bit.....

NeilBlanchard wrote:Persistence is the key!
Exactamundo.... It should be finished within 17Yrs....

Or were you planning on doing something else that day?.... :lol:




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Pete



P.S. Welcome to Team SPCR !!! ...8)
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Post by Bobfantastic » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:36 am

You know, it does seem to be improving...
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I think NAV was choking it earlier.
I'm a lot happier, knowing that it should be finished this unit before I need to replace my PC 8)

Thanks for the welcome!
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Post by unregistered » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:20 am

Bob, how did you know?
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Post by Bobfantastic » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:01 pm

About NAV? Since installing it, it's caused pretty much every problem that I've had on my PC (Norton Ghost wasn't even funny- went from 30 seconds start-up to about 5 minutes, so that was removed :shock: ). I believe it was performing an update to itself, as about twenty minutes after I posted it popped up to tell me that it was finished.
Never mind- I'm up to 1000 frames already, it's now predicting about a week to finish so that seems reasonable.
Just think of the points! :o
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Post by NeilBlanchard » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:25 pm

Hello Bob,

I like NOD32, myself. It takes a much smaller toll on CPU cycles, than NAV or AVG...
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Post by bkh » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:48 pm

I second the recommendation for NOD32. Launch times were horrible with McAfee, with NOD32 the system is snappy.
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Post by Bobfantastic » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:13 pm

Ah, but there's another factor influencing my decision- through work, I get the newest premium edition of System Works, Firewall, etc for free
8)
(and Norton is a nightmare to get rid of :cry: )
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Post by peteamer » Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:34 am

Bobfantastic wrote: (and Norton is a nightmare to get rid of :cry: )
Ain't that the truth!!!

Even it's own un-installer from the website fails to do a complete job... Google is your friend here.
Bobfantastic wrote:Ah, but there's another factor influencing my decision- through work, I get the newest premium edition of System Works, Firewall, etc for free
And so's AVG also free... and has done a better job of catching nasties in the last three magazine reviews I've seen.
For a software firewall, track down the last free version of Sygate Firewall, easy to use and better than Zone Alarm. It's a ~5MB email if nec.
There is a website that specialises in previous versions of software but I can't recall it's name or find it in my bookmarks... :roll:


There really is no need for any norton crap on your system, particularly when you can upgrade to better software that still doesn't cost... :D


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Post by Bobfantastic » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:38 pm

Update: The WU is finished! And slightly ahead of schedule too :o
Bring on the folding! :twisted:
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