In my ongoing efforts to fold proteins to find a cure for a myriad of diseases, I've also been moving up steadily in the [H]orde's rankings. Currently, I sit just two or three days away from the top 600 and from there, what looks like about a month to break the top 500 (of course, this is factoring in my results from the past seven days which have been less than stellar).
My Duron 850 went offline a couple of weeks ago and to upgrade it, I bought an older Athlon XP off of eBay. The chip cost a bit more than I was wanting to pay, but I figured I could use it in my current motherboard and get better results than the Duron 850. Unfortunately, the motherboard was underclocking it and my secondary motherboard which I thought worked, didn't. So, when I tried to get it running at the right clock speed, the motherboard refused to boot and a new one was bought from Newegg.
The new mobo came yesterday (along with some nice new RAM (2x512 - good for 2 computers)) and the new TIPHYS is up and running (PROMETHEUS is no more). TIPHYS is an Athlon XP 2200 running at 1800 MHz with 512 MB of RAM. It replaces PROMETHEUS and now bumps me up to a total of 12.425 GHz folding with 4.8125 GB of RAM.
I had thought about upgrading my main computer's chip to an X2, but I have some other things planned already for my paycheck that arrives next week (a new monitor and hard drive), but the paycheck after that should bring me an X2 4400 hopefully - clocked at 2.2 GHz, it will be the same clock speed as my current XP 3700, but with the dual cores, it'll run the equivalent of 4.4 GHz for the [H]orde and immediately send me shooting up the charts.
I also have a couple of sweet boxes coming to put two of my nekkid folding boxen in early next week and if they look and work like I expect them to, I'll probably get two more and make some tweaks to MENOETIUS and EPIMETHEUS who both are running on ATX ECS K7S5A's - I'll just get them some nice mATX mobos and stick them in the cases (though we'll have to see what kind of RAM they're running on as the newer boards don't like SDRAM that much).
And now, I leave for work, to put in another 10-12 hours to pay for it all.
URL: [H]ardfolding.com - [H]ome of the [H]orde
My Duron 850 went offline a couple of weeks ago and to upgrade it, I bought an older Athlon XP off of eBay. The chip cost a bit more than I was wanting to pay, but I figured I could use it in my current motherboard and get better results than the Duron 850. Unfortunately, the motherboard was underclocking it and my secondary motherboard which I thought worked, didn't. So, when I tried to get it running at the right clock speed, the motherboard refused to boot and a new one was bought from Newegg.
The new mobo came yesterday (along with some nice new RAM (2x512 - good for 2 computers)) and the new TIPHYS is up and running (PROMETHEUS is no more). TIPHYS is an Athlon XP 2200 running at 1800 MHz with 512 MB of RAM. It replaces PROMETHEUS and now bumps me up to a total of 12.425 GHz folding with 4.8125 GB of RAM.
I had thought about upgrading my main computer's chip to an X2, but I have some other things planned already for my paycheck that arrives next week (a new monitor and hard drive), but the paycheck after that should bring me an X2 4400 hopefully - clocked at 2.2 GHz, it will be the same clock speed as my current XP 3700, but with the dual cores, it'll run the equivalent of 4.4 GHz for the [H]orde and immediately send me shooting up the charts.
I also have a couple of sweet boxes coming to put two of my nekkid folding boxen in early next week and if they look and work like I expect them to, I'll probably get two more and make some tweaks to MENOETIUS and EPIMETHEUS who both are running on ATX ECS K7S5A's - I'll just get them some nice mATX mobos and stick them in the cases (though we'll have to see what kind of RAM they're running on as the newer boards don't like SDRAM that much).
And now, I leave for work, to put in another 10-12 hours to pay for it all.
URL: [H]ardfolding.com - [H]ome of the [H]orde
posted by Blake | 06:37
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I have no idea what any of what you just said really means, but this is now my new favorite pick up line:
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