ENTERPRISE

Awesome work. Its great to see people cutting down on the electricity they use and its great to see you have offset the best part of your Folding power usage

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woodpigeon4

Great post, very interesting. Like someone else has said, I disagree about the whole 'eco' thing, but I believe we should never waste anything, be it power, money food, or anything else. Good luck with the 4550

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ENTERPRISE

Cheers. I get the 4550 Tommorow so hopefully I will have more details later tommorow for you guys.

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{core2duo}werd

interesting idea.

one thing i saw was that people were saying that all their electricity comes from renewable sources, and i would just like to add that all of our electricity (here in the U.S.) comes from a national grid, where the majority of it is made with coal, and your electric company adds their electricity to that grid also. so to say that all your electricity is 100% renewable (unless you run soley off your own solar panels or something) kinda doesn't make sense.

that being said i don't really think that our nation is in much of a position to be switching our infrastructure over to new tech ATM. we have a ton of people (coal miners for example) who rely on the system the way it works now, and if we all switched to renewable energy they would be out of a job.

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MESeidel

Of cause the energy that comes out of your wall is produced in a power station next to your home.
You can't change that and in most cases you don't know what resource is used completely.

The point is that the company you buy your energy from buys it from power plats that are water, wind or solar driven.
So for amount you take from a lokal power plant is put into the system somewhere else but this time from green source.
If more people demand this green energy more money is invested to increase the "green" output.
If no one would care, the big electricity companies only construct coal and atom driven plants as they are cheaper, atm.

I'm not an idiot and I know that there is not enough renewable energy produced these days to fuel all needs.
But I know that I can help to increase that amount by spending my money on a company that does guarantee to use renewables only...


Well I don't know if you have such an open market for electricity in the USA.
In Europe it is possible to buy the energy from any companies (even power plant if they resell it direct) in the Schengen Agreement area.
Sadly the market is dominated by huge companies that supply over 90% of the households just because people don't know better or don't care.

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Your are very welcome to tell me if my sentences have poor grammar, or are incorrectly worded.
I enjoy learning English. ;o)

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Happy Days.

I have my ATI 4550 Installed and Folding now. However FAHMON is being a pain the arse and is telling me its 2% Done even though I have completed a WU already and is also not displaying my average PPD yet.

Any ideas ?

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lordikon

I haven't scanned this whole thread, but I believe the card with the best PPD/watt is the 8800gs, which is no longer made, neither is the original 9600gso.

I wish I had a link to the chart, it is very helpful in determining the best PPD/watt card and the best PPD/$ card. Of course, the best bang for the buck in the long run will always go to the best PPD/watt card because of the electric bill savings.

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Current Modern Warfare 2 petition count: http://sebastien.me/mw2/petition.png
Currently folding with:
2 8800GTS g92s -- 1 GTX 275 -- 1 8600GTS -- 1 e8400 -- 1 i7 950 (50%) -- 1 e6600

ENTERPRISE

Yeah for sure. I could not have gone for an overly power hungry card anyway due to my PSU lol.

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lordikon

What setting do you have for monitoring PPD?

In FahMon 2.3.4, click FahMon (which is in the menu bar) -> Preferences -> Monitoring -> Use experimental reload system. Use the 'time left' and 'Last 3 frames' setting. Also, while you're in there, make sure the 'Ignore Asychronous Clocks' checkbox is checked.

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Current Modern Warfare 2 petition count: http://sebastien.me/mw2/petition.png
Currently folding with:
2 8800GTS g92s -- 1 GTX 275 -- 1 8600GTS -- 1 e8400 -- 1 i7 950 (50%) -- 1 e6600

ENTERPRISE

Hmmmm. I will try that then.

Cheers.

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