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    A wild idea.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ganzonomy, Dec 18, 2011.

  1. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    Mods, if this isn't kosher, just fix the wording of this, and if it's really bad, just remove it. (If you like it, feel free to adjust brand name part for other companies... DELL, AW, GATEWAY, etc., we can use em all!)

    The guys on the NBF Folding Team are working towards a cure, and being as I know a lot of Sager / Clevo / Malibal / fillintheblank users are here, and Sagers tend to be very, VERY powerful machines, why not use the GPUs when we're not gaming towards a cure? As it stands now, I have my NP8662 folding under v7, and it works fine. (I will say this, be careful if you have a 560m, it's not whitelisted for v7 and it's wacky with v6 GPU). We can use the 6990ms, the 580ms, etc., and I think it'd also be cool to have the vendors in this also. Not so much for the "my rigs are better than yours", but at the end of the day, the diseases that are out there affect many - and maybe all of us - in some way, diseases that are more destructive to humans than any of the little inter-business competitions that exist.

    We have GPUs that are more than capable of keeping up with most desktops, and some are in tandem. Surely we don't game 24/7 either, so why not give some GPU and CPU cycles to a good cause?

    How to Enjoy Folding with NBR! Team 213698

    Just trying to put out something that does good for everyone, not just the NBR community.
     
    ganzonomy, Dec 18, 2011
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    Religion Notebook Consultant

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    my issue with folding on a laptop is the heat levels most mobile gpus get to when at full load. Heat and voltage kill components and I want mine to last a very long time.
     
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  3. ganzonomy

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    Mine peaks at 70C.
     
    ganzonomy, Dec 18, 2011
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    Designopolis Notebook Geek

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    Ehhh that's kind of debatable. Voltage most definitely (as in bad OCing voltage), but any heat sensitive components nowadays have tons of failsafes working to protect them. CPUs outlive their projected obsolescence by a matter of multitudes, so whatever months you're stripping from heating it through processes like this don't really matter. Same for the GPU as far as I know. It's going to be a good few generations out of date before any meaningful damage to performance from folding can be observed.
     
    Designopolis, Dec 18, 2011
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    electricity bill would go through the roof leaving laptop on 24/7.
     
    lazard, Dec 19, 2011
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  6. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    f... the bill i am in...giving it a run...
     
    Prema, Dec 19, 2011
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