how much does folding reduce pc lifespan

[FuzzyYellow]

yeah, like the title says, i want to fold, but i don't want to kill my pc either.

 

specs in sig

[Semper]

That's entirely relative to your cooling potential (I.E. real-world temperatures), and build quality of parts.

In other words, no one can say "it will decrease the lifespan of "x" component by exactly 17.49 years"

[Shroomster]

None really. If you don't fold with crazy OC, and the temps stay reasonable.

[FuzzyYellow]

That's entirely relative to your cooling potential (I.E. real-world temperatures), and build quality of parts.

i never let my temps get above 80 for sure, but right now, i reduced my OC so with full folding im at about 60C on my CPU.

[WillFromGA]

As far as I'm told 80C+ is bad and 65C and below is good. I have about 63-66C with stock fans but just bought a hyper 212 evo just to be safe. 

 

EDIT: 65C and below is GREAT!

[Garuger]

What is folding?

[ObscureMammal]

 

yeah, like the title says, i want to fold, but i don't want to kill my pc either.

 

specs in sig 

 

 

As long as you keep your temps under control you should be fine. With folding set to full my CPU runs at 33c and GPU at 44c

 

 

Edit: Go here http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/207857-for-folding-users-tips-tricks-and-faq-updated-aug-2014/

Scroll down and read the part that says "Is Folding safe for my components?" 

[WillFromGA]

 

 

 

 

As long as you keep your temps under control you should be fine. With folding set to full my CPU runs at 33c and GPU at 44c

 

What type of cooling do you have? Also, what CPU and GPU do you have?

[ObscureMammal]

What type of cooling do you have? Also, what CPU and GPU do you have?

FX-6300 with a 212 EVO and GPU is an EVGA 750 Ti SC

I also have five 140mm case fans, three intake and two exhaust

[FuzzyYellow]

OK, thanks for all the help guys.

[ObscureMammal]

OK, thanks for all the help guys.

No problem, happy to help 

[MrArcadiaMine]

What is folding?

Folding. in case you aren't trolling,  is the short hand term for protein folding  which is almost synonymies with the distributed computing client Folding@Home. Essentially its using a lot of computers to do rapid prototyping and analysis on  how to  most effectively treat a huge set of diseases like cancers, Alzheimer, various viruses and so many more.

 

 

Distributed computing is essentially breaking up large workloads into manageable sizes and sending them to other computers.

Its less efficient overhead and enerywise than  everyone having their own super computer to run through calculation locally but for those who don't want to drive up the price of research it is an absolute necessity unless they have a bunch or unused super computers just idling.

On the positive side it takes what are essentially selfish and underutilized devices and helps humanity by churning through more data than most super computers could ever hope to handle. Most of the distributed computer projects also help educate people about what they are doing.

for instance ths is what my

GPU is doing http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fahproject.overusingIPswillbebanned?p=13001

CPU is doing http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=PGC036919&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES

 

Its totally cool and if you're worried about your environmental impact then theres even a project for that. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/cep1/overview.do

also providing you have an android device you can use Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) on that too.

[Garuger]

Folding. in case you aren't trolling,  is the short hand term for protein folding  which is almost synonymies with the distributed computing client Folding@Home. Essentially its using a lot of computers to do rapid prototyping and analysis on  how to  most effectively treat a huge set of diseases like cancers, Alzheimer, various viruses and so many more.

 

 

Distributed computing is essentially breaking up large workloads into manageable sizes and sending them to other computers.

Its less efficient overhead and enerywise than  everyone having their own super computer to run through calculation locally but for those who don't want to drive up the price of research it is an absolute necessity unless they have a bunch or unused super computers just idling.

On the positive side it takes what are essentially selfish and underutilized devices and helps humanity by churning through more data than most super computers could ever hope to handle. Most of the distributed computer projects also help educate people about what they are doing.

for instance ths is what my

GPU is doing http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/fahproject.overusingIPswillbebanned?p=13001

CPU is doing http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=PGC036919&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES

 

Its totally cool and if you're worried about your environmental impact then theres even a project for that. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/cep1/overview.do

also providing you have an android device you can use Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) on that too.

So it is a global network were users plug their old pc in order to make a mega computer by combining the total performance of evry pc in the network? to solve diffivult problems?

[tobben]

So it is a global network were users plug their old pc in order to make a mega computer by combining the total performance of evry pc in the network? to solve diffivult problems?

Bingo. Numerous people buy dedicated hardware though.

[Briggsy]

depends on the project too. My old 660 would run nice and cool @ 1150Mhz while folding@home, but as soon as I switched over to Boinc GPUGrid, I had to leave it at stock speeds and turn off turbo boost to stay below 80C. 

[thatguyjerry]

So it is a global network were users plug their old pc in order to make a mega computer by combining the total performance of evry pc in the network? to solve diffivult problems?

 

not necessarily just old PCs, there are settings you can adjust to only fold when your computer is idle as well.

[Nup]

depends on the project too. My old 660 would run nice and cool @ 1150Mhz while folding@home, but as soon as I switched over to Boinc GPUGrid, I had to leave it at stock speeds and turn off turbo boost to stay below 80C. 

What's Bionic GPUGrid? 

[ObscureMammal]

What's Bionic GPUGrid? 

 

http://www.gpugrid.net/

[Nup]

http://www.gpugrid.net/

 Thank you