Currently our position is 1,300th with a total of 732 WU's. We have 11 members folding so far, and our work output is incredible for such a small group. We'll probably hit 1,200th place by New Years at our current pace. I haven't checked other teams members, but we're really moving, especially considering our small team of folders. For more info about the Zone356 Folding @ Home team, check out our Folding @ Home forum. It's spyware/adware/malware free and is for a good cause: curing disease like cancer and AIDS.
Well if anyone has a spare dual cpu socket A motherboard I have 2 x Athlon 2200's, tones of small hard drives, a few spare cases, psu e.t.c i could put a dual together for us.. on F@H 24/7, although i don't know how powerful it would be - and i need a dual cpu mobo.
You can configure it to use less than 100% of CPU time and it'll be able to run all the time. If he's got a fast enough system he should be able to run it just fine at 100%.
Mines set at 100% constant, and I can still photoshop, rip music, chat, surf the web and do heavy games. Never noticed a bit of slowdown. I have noticed that in taskmanager, the usage of F@H drops significantly when something I've opened up comes along, ie games.
I have it on 100% but i notice a slowdown when I'm burning CDs and listening to music sometimes but thats cause I have a slow PC.
I have it on 100% and never notice it slowing me down either. Mayb hes just lieing and cant b botherd letting it run but it not like he has to do anything to let it run.
Although it does come with a box popping up that says ready to connect to network when your WU is done. But clicking ok is hardly a chore is it?