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Old 12-13-2007, 12:39 AM   #11 (permalink)
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get a 7300gs. It is like $50 or something. Not $90
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Old 12-13-2007, 12:46 AM   #12 (permalink)
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get a 7300gs. It is like $50 or something. Not $90
Lol, you cant fold on nvidia cards. Im selling my 7300gt on ebay, and getting that x1950pro, which is a way faster card. Thats the purpose of the 1950, to fold using the gpu client.
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Old 12-13-2007, 02:27 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Lol i like my sig though and yeah those folding pcs generate alot of heat.
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Ive got an old pc chips board with an athlon xp 2800+ and 768mb ram, just need a budget power supply, case, and gpu for folding. Ill be using an old ide harddrive as well, once i get my new sata's.

This the case i was looking at:
Ultra Silver MicroFly Aluminum Micro ATX Tower Case with Clear Sides, Front USB, FireWire and Audio Ports MFCLRSL at TigerDirect.com

And I found a guy selling one of these locally for $85, used for less than 30 days
Newegg.com - GECUBE HV195PG3-D3(RoHS) Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail

Whats a decent power supply for cheap i can get to run this machine?
do Athlon XP's use PCI-e? because I'm pretty sure all Socket A are AGP...
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do Athlon XP's use PCI-e? because I'm pretty sure all Socket A are AGP...
Yeah that was just an example, the card ill be getting is the agp version.
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Default Re: Building dedicated folding machine, need suggestions.
o, didn't know you were using the gpu client.
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get a nice used x1600 or x1800. Im using an x1600 on my fold rig....works flawlessly and pretty fast too.
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Folding?
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yes....protein folding client...everybody donates their computers power together to work on workunits to cure cancer and STDs....well maybe not STDs....
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folding@home. you can look up "f@h" in google and it will be at the stanford.... something rather website.
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