Building dedicated folding machine, need suggestions.

[lancec2c30]

get a 7300gs. It is like $50 or something. Not $90

 

[ricanflow]

get a 7300gs. It is like $50 or something. Not $90

Lol, you cant fold on nvidia cards. Im selling my 7300gt on ebay, and getting that x1950pro, which is a way faster card. Thats the purpose of the 1950, to fold using the gpu client.

 

[csaefong]

Lol i like my sig though and yeah those folding pcs generate alot of heat.

 

[veg1992]

Ive got an old pc chips board with an athlon xp 2800+ and 768mb ram, just need a budget power supply, case, and gpu for folding. Ill be using an old ide harddrive as well, once i get my new sata's.

This the case i was looking at:
Ultra Silver MicroFly Aluminum Micro ATX Tower Case with Clear Sides, Front USB, FireWire and Audio Ports MFCLRSL at TigerDirect.com

And I found a guy selling one of these locally for $85, used for less than 30 days
Newegg.com - GECUBE HV195PG3-D3(RoHS) Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Retail

Whats a decent power supply for cheap i can get to run this machine?

do Athlon XP's use PCI-e? because I'm pretty sure all Socket A are AGP...

 

[ricanflow]

do Athlon XP's use PCI-e? because I'm pretty sure all Socket A are AGP...

Yeah that was just an example, the card ill be getting is the agp version.

 

[lancec2c30]

o, didn't know you were using the gpu client.

 

[hmammen]

get a nice used x1600 or x1800. Im using an x1600 on my fold rig....works flawlessly and pretty fast too.

 

[DrPaws]

Folding?

 

[hmammen]

yes....protein folding client...everybody donates their computers power together to work on workunits to cure cancer and STDs....well maybe not STDs....

 

[lancec2c30]

folding@home. you can look up "f@h" in google and it will be at the stanford.... something rather website.