Laptop PPD

[Lord Pantaloons]

I've decided to start folding with my old laptop, I started it yesterday afternoon on full and it's getting 14,749-14,800 PPD. Is that alright for a laptop? it's currently running Windows 7 64-bit, would I get more PPD running ubuntu?

 

*Edit 

My PPD has not gone up to 16,070

 

 

i7-2630QM 2.0-2.9Ghz

8GB RAM

GT 555M 3GB (oc from 590 to 770 core)

[warmon6]

I've decided to start folding with my old laptop, I started it yesterday afternoon on full and it's getting 14,749-14,800 PPD. Is that alright for a laptop? it's currently running Windows 7 64-bit, would I get more PPD running ubuntu?

 

*Edit 

My PPD has not gone up to 16,070

 

 

i7-2630QM 2.0-2.9Ghz

8GB RAM

GT 555M 3GB (oc from 590 to 770 core)

 

 

As long as the laptop isn't overheating (like what most are prone to under full load), it'll be fine.

 

 

PPD figures, Looks really good to me. PPD fall in line if your running on both gpu and cpu.

 

 

As for getting more in ubuntu, On the cpu side, you can although it wont be big.  When I was folding on my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop (Intel Pentium t2390 cpu) a few years ago, I was able to get 1k PPD in windows and 1.2K in ubuntu.

 

 

So for your cpu being much faster than my old laptop, you could see 1k PPD increase. Maybe a little more but that would be pushing it.

 

 

As for gpu, because gpu folding in ubuntu is still fairly new, I haven't really had the time to look into seeing if there was any advantage running ubuntu vs windows. 

 

 

hope this helps.

[Whaler_99]

As @warmon6 says - those are really good numbers - would leave it be. Trying to get the GPU working under a *uix variant could be an issue.

[Jozi]

Those are good numbers. My old laptop gets 300-500 ppd so I'm not even bothering with it.

[Lord Pantaloons]

As long as the laptop isn't overheating (like what most are prone to under full load), it'll be fine.

 

 

PPD figures, Looks really good to me. PPD fall in line if your running on both gpu and cpu.

 

 

As for getting more in ubuntu, On the cpu side, you can although it wont be big.  When I was folding on my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop (Intel Pentium t2390 cpu) a few years ago, I was able to get 1k PPD in windows and 1.2K in ubuntu.

 

 

So for your cpu being much faster than my old laptop, you could see 1k PPD increase. Maybe a little more but that would be pushing it.

 

 

As for gpu, because gpu folding in ubuntu is still fairly new, I haven't really had the time to look into seeing if there was any advantage running ubuntu vs windows. 

 

 

hope this helps.

It isn't overheating, the GPU is holding steady at 74c and has been like that for days, the CPU is holding around 80c. If heat becomes an issue though I can take the bottom plate off and that will lower the temps by about 10c ( the back is just a giant heat trap). Thanks for the reply, I guess I'll just leave it with windows as the potential loss of GPU PPD isn't worth 1k in CPU PPD but I'll keep that in mind if I come across another laptop with no GPU.

[ha1o2surfer]

I fold on my Laptop a lot.. Temps stay below 85c for the most part. I have an 11inch W110ER

 

3840QM (Overclocked to 3.7Ghz)

16GB Ram

650m

 

My laptop does have a better cooling system than most do and does fine under full load for days at a time. Been doing this for about a year (+ Boinc) so far so good!