If PS3 Folding@Home worked miracles, people would still complain.

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Grimes said:

Icyedge said:

Grimes said:
I'm not whining, but let's say your folding costs $30 year in energy. If you took that $30 and just donated it directly to the research institute, who is to say they wouldn't be able to make better use of those dollars? They could even buy their own PS3s if that was the best solution.

Someone will have to pay the 30$ electricity anyway. So even if you would give them 30$ it is still 30$ less.

You missed the point. The researcher is in a better position to decide what is the best utilization of resources. Energy may not be their biggest cost. Computing power is only one tool, not a solution to a problem.

The major benefit F@H has for the researchers at Stanford is that it cuts both energy costs and computer costs at their end while still having an insanely powerful network of computers compiling data.

So instead of donating $30 to them, your actually donating lot more folding at your own home.

 

Now for the argument about PS3 being "best" way to donate. Squillium pretty much nailed the fact GPU folding speeds destroys the PS3 at folding.

Let me say this. IF you have a crappy, not so great PC, that you probably bought at walmart or went cheap on your PC from Best Buy or where ever, it really doesnt have the computing power. No one will argue that any PC folding doesnt help, because it does, its just not as fast as the PS3 or GPU folding.

IF you own a crappy PC but do own a PS3, fold using the PS3 or both the PS3 and your PC. Either way you will contribute greatly to Stanford's research. Now if you own a gaming PC or have a decent GPU in your PC, fold using Stanford's GPU client, and of course if you own a PS3, use that too.

GPUs fold work units 100% faster then the PS3 can and easily 1000% faster then a basic CPU can.

 

 

 

Anyways anyone here who uses F@H please join the official VGC team. Team #109453

And yes, I'm the third biggest contributor in the group.