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Personally, I look at OpenCL Explicit Single Precision whenever I try to draw any parallels between FahBench performance and folding performance. FYI user123, my Avast antivirus Web Shield reports the image URLs in your posts as malicious. I'm 99.999% sure the following links are in fact OK, but bet...

The object shouldn't be bringing BA down to the level of others but raising the level of others up to BA. Conveniently ignoring GPUs and Core_17, aren't you? Sticking to "equal pay for equal work"... if SMP points are raised, then GPU points need to be raised, too. GPUs would blow BA out ...

If more SMP's need to be run then make it worth everybody’s time to run them. 2p/4p, i7's, c2d's etc...etc... Increase their points...that way everyone who runs them wins. And everybody becomes really, really fat in the process, with no end in sight, except maybe limitations of 64bit integers. That...

It has been said many times "equal pay for equal work" - but it has also been shown many times that the same 4P machine crunching SMP's or bigadv produces massively differing points - where's the equality? It's not there because the bigadv points were heavily inflated . Yes, I agree with ...

Welcome to the forum, xtremeguy. Looks like you won't be doing GPU folding on your laptop (Intel HD 4000 is unsupported), so setting up client v7 should be fairly self-explanatory. You'll be doing SMP folding on the CPU, and you can use the power slider to choose how much CPU power you want to dona...

Do they actually have a P4 lurking around in the first place, and are those formulae for base points and deadlines still valid? Or have they replaced it with a single core from the official i5 750 quadcore @2.67MHz benchmarking machine? Questions, questions...

I started a separate discussion ( viewtopic.php?f=16&t=25464 ) about updating the main FAQ.

It was brought to my attention ( viewtopic.php?p=254417#p254417 ) that at least http://folding.stanford.edu/home/faq/#ntoc37 could use some updating. Before putting out any new work unit, we benchmark it on a dedicated 2.8GHz Pentium 4 machine with SSE2 disabled definitely sounds obsolete, consideri...

Just found and installed Core temp. Even after 83+ hours@ 100%, I only get 71-74 C with apparent max rating of 100 (can't confirm that info tho). I'd think the Core Temp reading is reliable enough, and http://ark.intel.com/products/34439/Int ... 33-MHz-FSB suggests max. 100C as well. So I don't thi...

How are the temperatures and clocks? Even without overclocking, there are laptops which don't have adequate cooling for 24/7 folding, consequently throttling clocks in order to prevent overheating.

Yes, you can control finishing, pause and start via API. Then there's the good old manual control... you'd probably want, say, three high-end multiGPU folding setups (400W-800W) acting as space heaters per traditional electrical heater. Summer: 0-1 on; Autumn/Spring: 1-2 on; Winter: 3 on. The tradi...

Works, and looks even better now that I've switched from Subsilver2 to ProBlue.

About additional user-specified colours, do you think the following specific values would be OK?
[color=#00FF00]Green[/color]
[color=#0000FF]Blue[/color]
[color=#FFFF00]Yellow[/color]

YGPM.

Welcome to the forum, eddyc. The idea isn't unheard of, and some forum members with big folding farms have mentioned that folding offsets some - even most - of their heating costs during winter. Hopefully those who have had that experience are available for comment. As for automating things... first...

Napoleon, yes, any user-specified text color will be shown as bright red / pink with the forum style. It was intentional since that usually marks important parts of posts, but many user-chosen colors are not easily readable against dark backgrounds. As there are over 16 million selectable colors, i...