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Computer's dont use that much electric

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[]Omegatron said:
Computer's dont use that much electric [/]

I'm going to have to beg to differ. Ever since I've been running UD my electric bill has increased dramaticaly Of course, I'm running 4 machines too. But I'm paying at least 20 dollars more a month when the machines run and are crunching numbers 24/7 compared to when they weren't and they were in power saving mode most of the day.

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I plug mine into next doors supply


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Is that a prearranged thing? You provide the machine, they provide the power, or is it one of those selfless things where they don't even know they're helping to fight cancer?

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haha

Yeah I don't mind.. it just kinda bothers me I'm helping to fight cancer, but the electric company is getting some of that money

But either way, I'm approaching 250,000 points, and at that time I'm going to retire my main workhorse machine to scheduled UD times to try and reduce my monthly electric bill, especially considering that it is going to be a long cold winter, and our gas prices are going through the roof

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Here's an interesting experiment for those of you running 2+ machines... shut them all down (if you can) go out to your power meter and watch how fast the dial spins...

Then, go inside, power them all up, monitors too and THEN look at that dial... There is a marked difference. hehe

I think mine is spinning so fast, if I could somehow harness that disk I could go back in time!

There is a marked difference in power usage though as I run more machines in my home. hehe

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Well, I'm just a a thousand or two points away from 250,000 and the next color bean!

So hook me up

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I'm still not a coffee bean

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Oh I missed the request before. - sorry.

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woohoo, thanks

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Looks like I finally have enough for bronze. Wooo.

It'll take months to get to the next level with the PC I'm using. LOL

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Sounds like its time for an upgrade. When you're done with the upgrade you can say: "Looks like the fight against cancer just got a bigger gun" in your best Stallone voice.

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As much as I'd like to upgrade, I'm not running the software on my home PCs, I don't like leaving them on 24/7.

The one it's running on is on my work machine... which happens to be a very sloooow Compaq. But every little bit counts right?

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Congrats.

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wow josh, you broke it

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What? What'd I break?

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That's wierd - Jeremy what was it before?

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It was just my head, it has been off and on showing up and not lately.

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Oh no Jeremy lost his head!

Josh has Offed Jeremy's head..

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sup guys, I had this running on my comp for about a month and I was doing pretty good untill I went from a 20 gig to an 80. Well my question is, how much memory does it suck up. I really didnt notice my comp getting any slower at all but now that I got dsl network and my comp is always connected I was wondering if it would affect anything? If not Im going to re-load it up

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Well, on my desktop, which is a 3GHz machine with 1GB of ram and windows, IE, and all of my normal processes running, I'm using about 650 MB of my available ram.

When I check the individual processes, the UD agent is taking about 12-15 MB of ram. So for me, it really isn't taking any ram, it is just eating up the idle CPU cycles is all.

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Same w/ Jeremy. I think it's having the faster CPU that will get your proteins processed quicker. Even though it used really very little RAM, the more you have, the higher your machine score, which means more points for every result returned.
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I have a box to do this with.. I do Seti also.. but where can I download? that Link is a dead end says it was changed in february 2003... yadda yadda yadda

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If you go here:
https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/haxxors.php
You just need to go through the steps.

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Slayer thats the link I was talking about.. its broken...

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When I click the link:
Download the UD Agent from United Devices website.

It takes me to the grid.org website:
http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm

Where it gives me the option to download the agent.

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Ok now that link you just posted takes me to where I wanna go but the link that says Download the UD Agent from United Devices website. in the Instructions takes me to a page that says You have requested a page that does not exist or no longer exists on our site. Please verify the URL address you have entered is correct and try your request again. so they must have fixed the link...

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[]scroungr said:
Slayer thats the link I was talking about.. its broken... [/]

There may still be some remaining broken links from when the site was moved to this server. If you run into any post them in a new thread, would you please, so that I can fix anything we find over the weekend. thanks


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I need silver

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Silver is yours Keep up the good work,


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Just started today.. got 246 pts for 7hrs work? is that good?

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Sounds just fine - it all depends on the power of your PC - thanks for joining & keep up the good work.

Your points will get updated on the UD server at around Midnight GMT


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Ian, how come the bean doesn't show up beneath my user name, but it does in my profile?

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Hmm looks to be there to me... do you see the five stars? or ??

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[]donJulio said:
Ian, how come the bean doesn't show up beneath my user name, but it does in my profile? [/]

Looking okay from here


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BTW a computer that is left on draws LESS power in a week then a computer that is turned off and on everyday.. scientific fact...

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[]scroungr said:
BTW a computer that is left on draws LESS power in a week then a computer that is turned off and on everyday.. scientific fact... [/]

If that computer is not used. Correct, a PC that is left on overnight and not doing anything and just sitting idle draws very little power thanks to power saving methods. But when that CPU is being worked to the max all night long it is drawing a TON of power.

I can almost heat my whole apartment with my computers all running UD

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Having lost my Dad to Cancer a week before last Christmas, and today found out that my Mum's Cancer has returned after a very short period, and the outlook is not great - I say sod the cost.


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