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Re: [LUG] Folding - Team stats ?

 

> Terry Hill wrote:
>> The xp client (5.03) is running on my compaq without issues - have you
>> tried the minimal (text based) version to see if its the gui or the
>> core engine thats crashing?
>>
>>
> I disabled the screen saver option and now it's working without
> crashing.  For some reason it crashed hard every time the screen saver
> kicked in.  May be something to do with the power saving options on the
> laptop.  For now at least it's working.
>
> I'm getting approx 33secs/frame on the laptop and desktop:
>
> desktop:  AMD 2400+ / 1Gb RAM
> laptop: AMD Mobile Sempron 3500+ / 1Gb RAM
>
> Is the speed locked (which wouldn't make a lot of sense), as I would
> have thought the desktop running 400Mhz faster than the laptop would
> chomp a little quicker, or is it just the faster core of the laptop
> evening the playing field? [1]
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julian
>
> [1]  There again the desktop has more running in the background so that
> probably slows it a lot as well.
>

Folding is designed to use "idle CPU cycles".. so the less thats running,
the faster you'll process..


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