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billybob128 · Oct 12, 2004, 06:17 PM

so a few weeks ago i nicly settled into 21st place and was set to keep moving up.

however it seems that a few people i have past in the past have turned up the heat and are comming back on me.

so here is a hello and have fun to: thoule jpcool jasoncook dotcomand pozdro. and scifrog hopefully i can get some extra power to get past you again soon

SciFrog · Oct 17, 2004, 09:41 PM

Bring it on, there is a nice race going on around the 20th spot. I for sure can't shake Pozdro but at least no threat on the radar anymore... for now!

billybob128 · Oct 18, 2004, 01:12 PM

yeah well lets just say i have some tricks up my sleve!!!

you are right all of a sudden we have come into a nice tight spot where we are all fighting with around the same power.

shoud be a fun time!!

[APi]TheMan · Oct 18, 2004, 08:10 PM

Haha let the competition begin! I was fighting with SciFrog one time... Who knows how I got all the way up here to 8th position, now I'm not going to pass anyone for 112 days. It's boring up here, guys.

I must be getting a lot of Tinker cores, I'm crunching at an abnormally slow rate.

billybob128 · Oct 19, 2004, 02:13 AM

yeah tonkers are a bitch - i cant deccide whether they are worth it for the points in the end!!!

none of us will get to your level API enless we form an alliance

[APi]TheMan · Oct 19, 2004, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by billybob128:
yeah tonkers are a bitch - i cant deccide whether they are worth it for the points in the end!!!

none of us will get to your level API enless we form an alliance

Well you've got a dual 2 GHz G5 on your team, that doesn't hurt.

I had one ofd those working for me for a few months, it kicked butt.

SciFrog · Oct 19, 2004, 11:47 AM

If the dual CPU for Cubes show up, be ready for a tough fight, cause I will with two Cubes going to dual 1.2/1.4Ghz...

billybob128 · Oct 19, 2004, 12:35 PM

even the mighty dual G5 gets bogged down with tinkers its really annoying these two are taking forever its mad!!!

[APi]TheMan · Oct 22, 2004, 10:31 AM

Originally posted by billybob128:
even the mighty dual G5 gets bogged down with tinkers its really annoying these two are taking forever its mad!!!

Tell me about it, even for the amount of computers that run folding@home for me my rate is pretty slow lately... I haven't checked all my servers but I'm guessing I've got a few tinkers. More points I suppose.

billybob128 · Oct 22, 2004, 06:26 PM

and to be fair i must say here at the moment gromacs are taking quite a while. i think it is time to upgrade to version 5 (is it now?) from version 4. see if there is any improvement at all

[APi]TheMan · Oct 22, 2004, 11:58 PM

Originally posted by billybob128:
and to be fair i must say here at the moment gromacs are taking quite a while. i think it is time to upgrade to version 5 (is it now?) from version 4. see if there is any improvement at all

I upgraded all my clients to version 5 a few weeks ago and I don't think I've noticed anything... if anything my rate has gone down, I just figured that everyone else's rate had gone down as well.

billybob128 · Oct 24, 2004, 05:34 AM

i upgraded half way through some cores - gromacs - and on the same core found a 20 minuite increase per completed steps.