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save ur goddamn money foldingboy

Jenspm wrote:

HDD  + Sound Card.

FatherTed wrote:

save your money.

im sure with al the random PC shit you have hanging around you could make a few rigs able to do some folding.

I could probably make five gaming PCs too, but they'd be so slow that it isn't worth it.

FatherTed wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

save your money.

im sure with al the random PC shit you have hanging around you could make a few rigs able to do some folding.

I could probably make five gaming PCs too, but they'd be so slow that it isn't worth it.

at the moment they're sitting as parts of componants collecting dust.

So anything you do with them would be more worthwhile than they are atm.

I have all the parts I can use with a reasonable noise level in service.

Or ya know, just give it to charity.

teek22 wrote:

Why waste your money on something that will not benefit you directly? You may feel good but you don't work, and you don't have tonnes of cash lying around. Spend it on something that will benefit you. And if you still want to help with the folding thing leave your PC on overnight doing those calculations.

Mutantsteak wrote:

jord wrote:

Or ya know, just give it to charity.

Something that will actually benefit people, like jord said

What you people don't get, is that I enjoy building systems like this. I enjoy just tinkering with computers and electronics, making them perform as good as humanly possible. One system can keep me occupied for a month, squeezing every last MHz and dB out of it. Sure, I could spend it on adding things to my gaming rig, but apart from the HD and sound card in question, I really don't need to add any more to it. I won't get a better video card for 130€, I don't need more RAM, and a new CPU wouldn't be any faster.

I don't just fold because it's a good thing to do, that occupies about 50% of it. The other 50% is the joy of assembling, optimizing and organizing the hardware, coming up with cunning solutions to problems, and simply making it all run smoothly. It's like other guys tinker with their cars, home theaters, guns and what not.

On the charity note, it's just a plain no. Sure, the Red Cross and others feed "starving african children", but in the long run, they're just making those countries more helplessly dependent on outside support. And to "Something that will actually benefit people", I just reply with a simple and plain: Fuck you Read up.

EDIT: It didn't look that TL;DR in the editor

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-09-07 11:58:42)

DeathUnlimited wrote:

I won't get a better video card for 130€

HD4850 is 139e

Not gonna fold any better, so it wouldn't warrant an upgrade, as my 3870 does everything I want it to, graphically.

Plus, the budget is 130€ shipped.

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

HD4850 is 139e

Not gonna fold any better, so it wouldn't warrant an upgrade, as my 3870 does everything I want it to, graphically.

Plus, the budget is 130€ shipped.

8800GT

256MB.

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

8800GT

256MB.

My 512MB with Zalman cooler cost 90e shipped.

Go figure.

Second-hand. It's not like those are available all over, especially not here.

DeathUnlimited wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

DeathUnlimited wrote:

My 512MB with Zalman cooler cost 90e shipped.

Go figure.

Second-hand. It's not like those are available all over, especially not here.

8e added and it is available to you, via me. Second hand means like nothing, this one is a month old.

And I see these under 100e everywhere.

Sounds like a plan.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

I enjoy myself tinkering with my hardware WAY more than I do playing games.

Sounds like you answered your own question here.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

CapnNismo wrote:

Dude, save your money.

If you enjoy tinkering with the machines, then take all of those components lying around and build a folding machine from them. Then make that machine run beautifully and call it a day. Best part? You're €130 richer and you can use it on something else.

Honestly, though, I think you need to unplug for a while. Go on a vacation somewhere where there IS no computer. Head into the Finnish wilderness for like a week and enjoy yourself.

Thing is, the machines I have lying around will perform 1/10th of what a 130€ machine will.

so?

like you said you care more about tinkering with them, you can "tinker" just as well with some POS, and it's still folding anyway

Make a folding machine out of the best parts you have lying around, overclock it as best as you can. And use any money left over from your GT to buy something for it.

If I knew how much it would be to ship my PC over I would so you could play around with my PC.