Recent content by Pickster

I wanted to try and rally some troops against the impending drop in rank the team (Folding - Redline @ OC3D) is about to take. Tom's Hardware is about to knock us down to 46th place :) Their team is gaining on us by about 2 million points per day so I don't think we can hold out for ever. But...

Hi all, it's been a while since I have been here but I'm hoping to be back on board fairly soon. You may or may not remember (quite) a few months ago I posted saying that one of my 560 Ti's had died. I have finally been able to get on with sorting it out. After trying to go through ASUS with...

So I have just got back to my rigs and my folding rig is fired up and crunching through the work units. I notice that I'm getting better PPD than before on the GPU work units, I assume this is down to the new way of benching them. Before I went away it was advised that the *core*.exe file...

Just wondering what sort of numbers one could expect from a 640. I'm not expecting mega numbers, but since the card is small and doesn't require much power I was wondering if its worth slipping into on of my rigs.

Hi guys, me again. I'm curious as to what sandy bridge folders have as their max vcore, while folding that is. I'm currently trying to figure out where the instability is on my main rig, I thought I had ruled out vcore, but ..... well I decided to ramp it up (to 1.440v) well beyond deafult...

Just a little query. I'm wondering how long people have run a rig folding at 100% without have to reboot, fiddle.... do anything to it. As some of you know, out of necessity I have had to leave my folding rig folding away at my parents house while I was off on my 'adventure' (which is still...

My would be father in law (my Ex's dad and grandfather to my kids) passed away today suffering from both lung and liver cancer (and also possibly a brain tumor). He only found out a matter of weeks ago and his deterioration was very rapid. This gives me further incentive to burn through the...

... and how we were powerless to stop them stampeding past us. Well for for those who have not noticed, they are now in our sights! Just under 7 months away. Lets take them down with style!!

OK, long story short. Computer that I built for my ex's brother. It (last summer) apparently got turned off by the switch at the back rather than shut down. After which it would not turn back on again. Rather than comming to me first he (and his mum) tried to 'fix' the computer. I don't...

The battle was long fought with highs and lows, but in the end I just couldn't catch him. It was a fun ride and we helped the team pump out a few extra points through our battle. Congratulations on both beating me and hitting the 5 Million milestone.

It looks like I have all the kit avaliable to me to make myself a retro rig and I was hopeing someone here has tried this themselves and knows the pit falls. I'm thinking of running Windows 98 SE. How compatible is that with older DOS games? I might dual boot with Windows XP but that seems...

Hi I'm wondering if anyone has any experience using one of these in a desktop computer. The AV series are more designed for DVRs/CCTV that sort of thing. A western digital rep replied to someone else on their forums that because of the way its designed it won't be very fast in windows like...

Just had a quick nosey at overclockers.co.uk and in their clearance line they have some GTX 460 768mb cards for £80 in UK VAT. While they take a hit in gaming over the 1gb version, in folding there is more or less no difference as they have the same number of shader cores running at the same...

This is something I have been threatning to do for while but for various reasons never got round to it. Seeing as I clearly I need a kick up the backside to get this moving I am putting it out there to give me some motivtion. I have done some 'simple' programming but nothing that really...

I have hardly had my dual 3ghz cpus running for a week and I put in a best offer on a pair of 5345s (Quad core 2.33ghz). Thankfully that was turned down (I can't really afford it) but my trip back to ebay has baged me a mini pci-e 16GB SSD. What the hell do I need that for!?! (It's to go in my...