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Folding on an older rig?

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Hey guys. So I have a rather older computer sitting around turned off 24/7 just doing nothing, and I was wondering if it would be worth setting it up to fold. The CPU is an Intel Pentium 4 at 3 GHZ. It has a liquid cooler on it. The graphics card... well... and the RAM is like 4 GB or something like that. Its not really much but what kind of numbers could I get out of it? I don't think the GPU is supported to fold on. 

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well i was getting 4-6k ppd from an amd phenom black edition 940 and sometimes a gts 250...

id say you may get less than that :/ 

but hey every little bit helps! :D

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well, ill probably set it up sometime when im bored then :D

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I wouldn't bother folding on such an old system since the heat output and electricity cost would out weight the PPD in return,

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For equipment like this I don't think that it would really be worth it. Thanks for trying to help out though.

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Ya, I did some testing recently on some older P4's I had access to - they were so slow, I couldn't even get a calculated estimated PPD after 4 hours. Gave up on that. :)

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