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**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:58:54 Post Subject:

I have a Power Angel, which is like the Kill-A-Watt... I plan to connect that to my folding rig when I do shut down because I am wondering what it is costing me.

Can you take the amount you spent on electricity for Folding and call it a charitable deduction? Laughing

- Might be like writing the Cancer Society a big check on a farm like yours!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:18:59 Post Subject:

Well... I got motivated and downloaded the new (CD) version. Back up and running with the system even quieter, and hooked up to the Power Angel.

Apparently full steam ahead only draws 176W! Not bad. I could probably improve that greatly without hurting performance by pulling the video card and 4 of the 6 (2.6V) DDR sticks. It has 4GB installed, 2x 1GB and 4x 512MB... the four little sticks might take a hike.

Even now... 176W is about 64 cents per day.

Just checked my latest electric bill and it is formatted different than I remember. There is a generation service fee of $0.099351/KWH and a delivery fee of $0.052556/KWH! Wow... 15 cents per KWH?!?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

I've often wondered what it costs to leave my system running 24 hours...might have to look into one of the Kill-A-Watt items...would be interesting to know.

acruxksa · Posted: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:40:18 Post Subject:

We just took down ClubOC, Texas A&M is on the radar now. Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:45:50 Post Subject:

Oooh, so we'll go after universities now, ehh? I see Texas A&M, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Purdue could all be passed soon... Could use some more Folding firepower people! Grin

mrweasel · Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:58:05 Post Subject:

got a Q6600 and new mobo yesterday. not sure if it'll stay as a separate rig or replace my C2D...either way, we have at least 2 more cores Grin

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:15:42 Post Subject:

You're going to love that quad, mrweasel!

I believe we passed TX A&M (flew by them like they were standing still Grin

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mrweasel · Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:09:45 Post Subject:

this thing is INSANE! finally got the CD up and running (for testing) and it got through 5% of a 2.5mil pointer in under 3 hours...the other one I have has been running since Friday afternoon and isn't done yet.

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:33:52 Post Subject:

mrweasel · Posted: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:36:39 Post Subject:

I'll have to check to make sure that's right...I may have miss calculated when I actually got network connectivity.