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Welcome back! I'm hoping a bunch of dual core people will make the switch now that the A3 units are murdering their points. That's part of why i'm here
With the new A3 core coming into FaH I'm losing 40% of my points on A3 core WUs (~1150 vs. 1900) on my X2
i had my [email protected] and it still suffered a 500-700ppd points drop.
Welcome back to Rosetta, David.
You know, I think that Vijay and the rest of the F@H project have lost site of their original intentions for their project by just using the unused cycles of people's everyday computers because of the strong base they had with teams that would build dedicated machines specifically for their project. So they keep coming up with more and more advanced methods of crunching/folding, which basically leaves everything but very high end equipment in the dust. And I think that sooner or later this will backfire on them as people get tired of upgrading perfectly good equipment just to be able to competitively fold. I've found that the BOINC project isn't as bad on equipment needs as F@H and even older systems can produce good return on their crunching time. That's a big reason I quit Stanford's project some years ago. And unlike all the buggy folding clients, BOINC has matured really well and is much better at "plug and play" for unattended machines. I've been gone from the house for going on 17 days now and checking my computers on the Rosetta site shows all 3 of the machines I left on Rosetta happily crunching away and turning in healthy RAC.