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Well, I've been folding since July, 2004. In that time I have passed many milestones to encourage me and keep me folding. Thanks to all of you who helped keep the fire burning. I remember when I just wanted to turn blue. Early on I climbed the ranks quickly, passing the graves of long dead folders w...

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I've got a 2055 on my Athlon 64 3400+ (2.4 Ghz, S754) and it's producing 84 ppd. This CPU can do 140ppd on Tinkers or nearly 300ppd on 600p WU's. It's frustrating that I have a 129p WU that takes almost 37 hours to complete. That machine is a full time folder. Argh!

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I just passed 400,000 points. Woohoo! It took me 13 months. Here's to the next 400K!

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I'm feeling summer right now but, fortunately, my folding isn't suffering due to the heat. One of my hard drives went bad so 1 folder is down (Athlon XP 1900+) until I can image the drive and copy it to another one. I went to Home Depot today and it was just too hot. Sapped all of my energy. Suppose...

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The good thing about Phoenix is most recent homes have A/C, usually powerful A/C. I don't know how people lived here before A/C! Living in new homes for the last 7 years is great to escape the heat but the power bill sucks. I'm probably going to be in the $325+ peak electricity bill this summer. It'...

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A little warm here also, but it happens every year at this time. Supposed to be 111F tomorrow, but it's a dry heat so it only supposed to feel like 101F. At least it's better than the 122F peak we had once. It shut down the airport. We'd be lucky to see one day below 100F before mid-September. I wis...

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Yeah, I'll contact Crucial to replace the RAM. It must be under warranty since it's only 10 months old. My temps are hard to pin down since the MSI motherboard is notoriously inaccurate at temps. When using the Core Center overclocking and monitoring software provided by MSI, it shows temps at least...

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The amount of VA's you need depends on how long you need it to last on battery power and how much power all of your stuff draws. For home use or single PC use, I think 1000VA is plenty. It should cover you long enough for the software to shut your system down if power is off for any length of time. ...

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A failing hard drive would definitely not cause that as far as i know. Make sure your HSF is free of dust. I just had a customer who's CPU died because of accumulated dust on the HSF. From the info you provided, it does sound like overheating. Likely the PSU or motherboard. PSU get very dusty inside...

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I've had at least 3, mostly lower power, older ones. 1 - SL300S (300w) came with the Antec case. Died within two months for one of my customers. Athlon XP 2500+ system. Replacement was a crap brand (Allied) that I had on hand when in a hurry. Has been working for over a year now. 1 - Truepower 330 (...

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Well, I took out one of the chips and things are running normal again. I don't know why the chip failed but when I put it back in, the motherboard gave the slow beep signal and the system didn't start. Do you think the stress of folding 24/7 contributed to the failure of the chip? Pete: you're a dog...

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I believe the HSF is on correctly because I was running Motherboard Monitor and it showed the temps - 40C at idle, 61C under load (folding). Plus installation went fine on the HSF. I had to dismantle the system when I installed the HSF on Sunday. It's clean and was not overclocked. I'll try one stic...

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Hi Folks,

One of my best folders is down with Windows blue screen messages - may be memory went bad?

Please help over here:
http://www.techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31080

Thanks

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Hi Folks, I've got a folding/game/test machine with an MSI K8 Neo Platinum MB (S754) with 2 x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC3200 memory chips. Athlon 64 3400+ (2.4 Ghz, 512K Cache) - running at about 63C when folding. Been running for 9 months, then all of a sudden, system shuts off and makes slow stead...

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I broke 300,000 a week ago! Reached #38 on TR list. Top 20 daily avg for TR regularly of late My one year folding (all for TR) anniversary is coming up in July. I hope I can keep it up. Whew it's hot here lately - 115 the other day, 109F today. A/C is workin' hard. Can't wait for the dual core Athlo...

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I didn't mean How??, I meant how can this be? Update: I take it all back. My machine just made a liar out of me and picked up a p1477 364 point WU. I've heard that Athlons crunch Tinkers better than Pentium 4s, but I was comparing ppd between Tinkers and those 300+ point WU's. Just trying to maximiz...

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Hey Folks, For weeks I've been getting non-stop tinkers (or below - but really 80 - 90% Tinkers) on my best folder for weeks. No 300+ point WUs. How is that possible? It's an Athlon 64 3400+ S754 with 1GB of RAM on WinXP running console FAH version 5. I've been running folding on it for 9 months. I ...

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Remember that a 2.4 Ghz Athlon 64 could be a 3400+, a 3700+, a 3800+ or a 4000+ (varies based on L2 Cache and single/dual channel memory). So what's really accurate or fair? Using the model number is an exaggeration for single cores (a little bit) and an understatement for dual cores. It seems to me...

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I can tell the big point WUs are back. My average is up from 1500ppd to 2000ppd. I lost one of my good folding machines, but I'll pass 260,000 points sometime today. I reached one of the goals I mentioned last month - made it into the top 20 folders in the TR Weekly Standings update this week for th...

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It cleared up. I think it cleared up on its own after I fixed my network issue - it just took a long time. I'm still confused but I hope it doesn't happen again.

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Hi Folks, I'm a Linux newb and I've got an Overclockix 3.4 or 3.7 (can't remember) machine that hasn't loaded a new work assignment in 5 days. Ugh! Originally I think it was a problem with my network cable and DHCP assignment failure. Anyway, I got that working again and it submitted its completed a...

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added Athlon 3200+ @ 2.2 Ghz 24/7 (S754)
My Terahertz Total = 7.26 + 2.2 = 9.46 Ghz
TR Terahertz project total = 345.02 + 2.2 = 347.22

Correction: Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.2 Ghz (stock)

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Wow Convert! That's HARDCORE! I installed a 300cfm (now that's a lot of air) fan in my walk-in closet (in my office) to suck out all of the hot air produced by ~10.5 Ghz of Athlon folding machines. I tell my wife I need all of those for "TESTING PURPOSES" for my computer consulting business. I look ...

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Thanks for the advice. I don't own credit cards, I know too many people that have or will go bankrupt over them. :o You don't have any credit cards?!? How do you buy stuff online? I keep credit cards but always pay them off each month. I even buy my groceries with CC and use the points/miles for tr...

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Just Brew It - I don't think it's RAM. Well it better not be - it's got two sticks of Crucial Ballistix 512MB RAM. That should be some good stuff. Paco - No it doesn't have Norton on there but it used to. Now it has Authentium or something. Free with a Cox Communication Internet account. Maph - if i...

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Convert,

If you bought the stuff with a platinum credit card, you usually have insurance that can replace it if it happens within the first year or something.

It may be worth investigating.

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Hi Folks, I've got a machine - my best one - that is giving me the same error over and over for the last few hours. For core_78.fah "Signature is _NOT_ valid on given file. Failed to verify core. Error: could not extract core. Core download error (#4), waiting before retry..." This computer has give...

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I've thought about moving my farm over to UGN to really play with the big boys but I'm just too caught up in my own stats. I've just reached some of the goals I've had for the last 3 or 4 months. As of today, I cracked into the top 20 (18th right now) with a daily avg of 2016 (from 14 CPUs with more...

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This last round of 300+ point WUs has given me a tremendous boost. My current goal is to get into the top 20 producers (daily average) for TR. Well, right now I'm at 21 with 1904 avg. after the 6pm update on EOC. The number 20 producer is currently at 1940. I'm so close I can taste it. This is my be...

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Final Update. I ordered a replacement power supply directly from Shuttle USA. They said that is the only way to get one - directly from them. My model was $45 plus shipping. For those of you who need parts that are not available otherwise, go to us.shuttle.com and click on the "Buy XPC Accessories o...

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Yes I've had an Antec PSU failure!

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I'm gettin' non-stop Tinkers! How?

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