Folding@home on PS3
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MaximumJed said:
Roop said:
OK. I've now got my home PC on this - P4HT 3GHz and a Radeon 4650 GPU. This should up my score a bit. Maybe I should get the PS3 on as well...? 
The PS3 is likely to be faster, mine does a work unit in about half the time my P4 does
Up to 9th in the leaderboard...! Radeon GPU + PS3 = pace 
snuffy said:
Roop said:
Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
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t loads I reckon. Silent1 said:
snuffy said:
Roop said:
Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
st loads I reckon. Leithen said:
Silent1 said:
snuffy said:
Roop said:
Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
st loads I reckon. Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
You can use this :http://www.ukpower.co.uk/tools/running_costs_elect...
So if you ran it full time for a month, which is 744 hours ( and mine was doing a Work Unit in about 6 hours, i.e. 124 work units per month ):
The one I have ( 60GB ), @ 200W, for a month ( 31 * 24 ) = 744 hours, say 3p a Unit comes out at £4.46
£4.46 a month.
As an observation, we in the UK are constantly being told by HMG to conserve energy and turn everything off that we don't need, don't leave things on standby and so on. But F@H is the complete opposite.
snuffy said:
Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
You can use this :http://www.ukpower.co.uk/tools/running_costs_elect...
So if you ran it full time for a month, which is 744 hours ( and mine was doing a Work Unit in about 6 hours, i.e. 124 work units per month ):
The one I have ( 60GB ), @ 200W, for a month ( 31 * 24 ) = 744 hours, say 3p a Unit comes out at £4.46
£4.46 a month.
As an observation, we in the UK are constantly being told by HMG to conserve energy and turn everything off that we don't need, don't leave things on standby and so on. But F@H is the complete opposite.
Leithen said:
snuffy said:
Leithen said:
What's the electricity consumption of a Folding PS3, left on 24/7?
You can use this :http://www.ukpower.co.uk/tools/running_costs_elect...
So if you ran it full time for a month, which is 744 hours ( and mine was doing a Work Unit in about 6 hours, i.e. 124 work units per month ):
The one I have ( 60GB ), @ 200W, for a month ( 31 * 24 ) = 744 hours, say 3p a Unit comes out at £4.46
£4.46 a month.
As an observation, we in the UK are constantly being told by HMG to conserve energy and turn everything off that we don't need, don't leave things on standby and so on. But F@H is the complete opposite.
So, checking again, assuming second tier prices, from the Scottish Power web-site, prices range for about 7p to 12p, say an average of 10p, which means about £14.85/month.
So if I ran my PS3 full time, for a year, doing the F@H stuff it would cost me about £180.
wow.. thats alot of money, i'd better check my htpc, its been on permanently since the start of this thread now and im sure its 450w power box in there > wonder if i can get a widget to tell me how much power its actually using.
if its costing hundreds (over a year) i'll stick with only crunching when watching movies etc on it. (ive watched a couple movies and its fine to crunch and no stuttering etc wathing HD movies at the same time as it folds.
if its costing hundreds (over a year) i'll stick with only crunching when watching movies etc on it. (ive watched a couple movies and its fine to crunch and no stuttering etc wathing HD movies at the same time as it folds.
StormLoaded said:
wonder if i can get a widget to tell me how much power its actually using.
Maplin flog a plug which you stick in your power socket and then plug your whatever in to and it tells you the power consumption.I found that I could not use my PS3 for anything else if F@H was running, for example, I wanted to use my PlayTV to record a programme and it told me I had to quit F@H. The same thing happens if I want to play a game.
Also, the 60GB models have a huge fan that makes a hell of noise once it starts doing anything ( I dont know if the slim ones are the same ), and I dont wont that in my living room all the time, so coupled with a) the power/cost thing and b) the fact that I have to keep stopping it I actually uninstalled F@H over the weekend. I came to the conclusion it was a great idea to start with but the more I looked at the bigger picture, the more I concluded it was not.
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