Folding Forum

Thank You, I will check the BIOS and give Puppy a try! My estimated time of completion is already days before timeout, I guess that's a good prognostic. I also run a desktop with more reasonable hardware, but power consumption is too high to leave it folding all day. PPD/power ratio is surprisingly ...

Hi, I salvaged an old Acer Aspire 3003wlmi (single-cored 1.8GHz CPU, no GPU) and intent to use it for folding only (24/7). I installed Ubuntu 11.10 (which is pretty taugh on the hardware, though) and now it runs v7 client. The overall performance is poor (TPF 50min at best). I wonder if changing to ...