yeah, never done either, but the heatsinks for the intel quadcores are close to 1 kilogram (2 pounrds!), and there has to be a better way.

haven't done the peliter / tec yet, waiting for a good product.

but i have one of these lying around, and want to see if i can get it to work with the core i7.

been reading articles that thie i7 can go over 5GHz!

Yea I saw that 5ghz too. Good lord that thing is HUGE and looks like it takes a special case just to use it! Says it would cool things down though!! It seems like it would not be easy to use, that arm that goes to the cpu looks kind of rigid. I am not that cutting edge, I do like to read and dream though!!

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I recently met a neighbor who plans to get a computer soon; she's currently without one. I offered to help her set it up and give her a connection to the internet through a wireless interface I plan to buy soon in exchange for installing a BOINC medical research project on it. Since other methods of getting any internet connection at all are scarce in this area, I suspect she'll agree if she is able to get a computer at all. Buying a second computer myself looks easier, though.

It's not clear if the memory-hungry projects with high error rates like Rosetta@home would be good choices for her computer; I'll have to see how much memory and how many CPU cores it has before I decide.

A possibility of a crowd it should be somewhat easy to recruit if you can make sure Rosetta@home will run on their machines:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22060/?a=f

The machines are cheap enough you might even think of connecting with a charity to help them buy them if they'll run Rosetta@home.

A possibility of a crowd it should be somewhat easy to recruit if you can make sure Rosetta@home will run on their machines:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22060/?a=f

The machines are cheap enough you might even think of connecting with a charity to help them buy them if they'll run Rosetta@home.

The article doubts the ability of a $20.00 laptop and at the very end suggests that the Government of India may be offsetting some of the costs. IF that is true then you will need to find othe sources outside India to offset those same costs. Personally I doubt that a $20.00 laptop would be powerful enough to run a Boinc project, but time will hopefully tell. I think the power requirements of Boinc will require the laptop to be plugged in most or all of the time increasing the costs substantially. You can get a nice used desktop for under $200.00 with monitor. And if you look around you can get free CRT type monitors in your neighborhood. People are "freecycling" them everywhere! Do a Yahoo search for "freecycle" and you should find groups in your area, you can get anything and everything in them. They are local so no shipping involved, keeping the costs low.

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A possibility of a crowd it should be somewhat easy to recruit if you can make sure Rosetta@home will run on their machines:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22060/?a=f

The machines are cheap enough you might even think of connecting with a charity to help them buy them if they'll run Rosetta@home.

The article doubts the ability of a $20.00 laptop and at the very end suggests that the Government of India may be offsetting some of the costs. IF that is true then you will need to find othe sources outside India to offset those same costs. Personally I doubt that a $20.00 laptop would be powerful enough to run a Boinc project, but time will hopefully tell. I think the power requirements of Boinc will require the laptop to be plugged in most or all of the time increasing the costs substantially. You can get a nice used desktop for under $200.00 with monitor. And if you look around you can get free CRT type monitors in your neighborhood. People are "freecycling" them everywhere! Do a Yahoo search for "freecycle" and you should find groups in your area, you can get anything and everything in them. They are local so no shipping involved, keeping the costs low.

A few added to the Rosetta@home group of test machines should be enough - let people of India actually do most of the crunching using them, assuming that Rosetta@home will run on them.

The charity can help the people of India buy them, not necessarily people elsewhere, who may find your suggestion more suitable.