~misfit~ wrote:

Martin 53N 1W wrote:

~misfit~ wrote:
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Evolve or die.

Hopefully there's been a lot of positive BOINC evolution recently!

Hopefully. I can't upload, can't download and have lost about the last 10
days worth if credit. (Which just happened to be 10 days when I thought
"Damn the electricity bill!" and had BOINC running on everything I have,
24/7). I'm beginning to seriously wonder about farming. Might have to shut
down a few PCs and go back to just using 'spare cycles' on my main machine,
when it's switched on.

    At 24/7 you are not temperature cycling your computer which should extend its life.

    As to cost, you cannot be drawing more than the wattage of your computers power supply, probably closer to half unless you have four hard drives and peripherals drawing power.

    200 Watts X 24 hours = 4.8 KW-HR X cost per kw-hr

    For me $US 0.43 per day, about $US13 a month for a no other use computer. Subtract normal usage time.

    A small price to help ET find a friend in this lonely universe.