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I've looked around the forum before posting but ain't had much luck getting any good search results and from what I did find it seemed like unsatisfactory results.

Let's start off with mentioning that I have a dial up connection as it's the only thing available to me, yes it's 2012 and cable or dsl internet is not down my road yet. The CPU I have is an old Pentium D 820 stock clocked at 2.80GHz and my GPU is also ancient, ATI Radeon x300.

Here let me do one better and post CPU-Z and GPU-Z screens.



I'm pretty sure the GPU is unsupported.

EDIT: Also just thought up another question. When uploading the work would it take my dial up hours to complete this?

So what's the verdict?

You would use so much power in a Pentium D, for so little result, I would save up and buy a modern CPU.

The GPU is almost certainly unsupported.

The CPU... you'd get maybe a few hundred points a day. Pentium D's were basically the very budget Dual-Core CPUs... back when Dual-Cores were starting to proliferate in 2008 or so.

I would say it's definitely possible, but don't expect much more than that.

Use v6 client, in CPU mode, uplaods in minutes not hours.

As 7im notes, I'd first try 1 or 2 uniprocessor CPU clients/slots, rather than trying the SMP cores. Since it will have to wait for you to manually connect to the net for each upload/download, you run less risk of timing out on the deadline with the Uni Work Units. Also, WU packages and results are generally much smaller.

I don't think you have to avoid the v7 client. Just realize from the start that you have to override the default to get a uniprocessor Work Unit instead of the SMP WU. It's only a matter of checking a different box. Then, if you decide to try running a second CPU core, it's easier to add a second slot in the v7 client than to add an entire new v6 config.

Wait to manually connect? Not in v6, yes in V7.

7im wrote:Wait to manually connect? Not in v6, yes in V7.

IIRC, v6 can do it. There's a "prompt for connection" option.

Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz is good for about 800 ppd with a pass key.
I have a couple of those here and that's what they get on Win 7 using V7.

Jesse_V wrote:

7im wrote:Wait to manually connect? Not in v6, yes in V7.

IIRC, v6 can do it. There's a "prompt for connection" option.

Please note the context of the response, both post and author. It was suggested that the donor would have to wait for a connection. And as I said, not in v6. You don't have to wait. The client will dial out. You don't have to wait if the client does it for you.