Hello! I just thought I'd post after folding for all this time. I've been folding since toward the end of 2006, shortly after my 14th birthday, on a Dell Dimension 8100 Pentium 4 1.7GHz single core chip! Obviously it was pretty difficult to use my machine, so it was only when I was out of the house. Shortly after the Core 2 Duo's launched, I put enough together to be able to afford an E6600, which I use to this day. The power supply is a bit naff though, so it limits my choice of Graphic Cards upgrade. I have also since bought a Dell laptop, a PS3 and borrow a MacBook Pro (with an i7), all of which I fold on (as I am currently at university and don't need to worry about electricity bills, and my university pays a premium for electricity from renewable sources ). I am approaching 1 million points (a big milestone for me) and I decided it was time to create an account. Hello once again! http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=197963 [folding]u=197963&t=35947[/folding]
Welcome to the forums I remember doing the same last year in halls, got crazy hot with all my stuff going full pelt
Yep, my room attracts all my flatmates at the moment, it's much warmer than theirs I'm hoping to be able to move into uni accommodation again for my final year, as hopefully I'll have more kit to fold on, and again I won't have to worry about bills.
same here... until i got my house and had to start paying for the leccy bills which is crazy high already!! would love to start it again as have an i7 970 and two gtx 560ti's. used to average ~60-70k ppd when i could do -bigadv's
Welcome to the Fold I've got free electricity too - the land-lady doesn't seem to mind the 7' 42U server case that is slowly getting filled with more and more power hungry GPU's hehe between all the PC's I've got, if I can persuade them to all work at the same time I've probably got 30K PPD of rigs and they will probably chew through 2 kW PPD/Watt is undesirable but it suits my cash-flow of lots of small minor upgrades rather than a big purchase.
I didn't feel as guilty as you SHOULD because my uni (loughborough) has various renewable sources on site (hydrogen fuel cells etc) rather than paying over-the-odds to be green and PC!
Haha, unfortunately my university (Surrey) can't build wind turbines here, so they funded a few being built near Norfolk (IIRC)!
