[Ilander]

That's the story I've heard a lot recently...that many, many of us hobbyist folders have discovered it fairly early, been discouraged by the output relative to the heat, noise, and power...and moved on.

I'm here to tell you, though...that's not the case anymore. My stock Phenom II 940 runs at 51 degrees Celsius (same as my old P4) but generates close to 4000 points per day, which, basically, amounts to 3 complete simulations a day...pretty astounding, compared to the P4, which would generate one every five days or so.

A graphics card uses about the same power, and, depending, can generate up to 8000 points per day, or around 16 complete simulations.

Pretty amazing stuff considering that the proteins they're simulating have literally hundreds of atoms.