Comments on: PSP Folding@home misses the point http://www.aeropause.com/2007/08/psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point Aeropause is a video game blog that explores game culture, trends, technologies and innovations Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Paul http://www.aeropause.com/2007/08/psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-20891 Paul Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:07:12 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/2007/08/psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point/#comment-20891 Some kind of idle time donation using the PSP would be nice, but I fear that doing Folding on a single-core CPU that's roughtly the same as the roughly 300Mhz PS2 CPU would be so unbelievably slow as to be worthless. Folding runs about 8x faster on the PS3 than it does on my single-core AMD 4000 CPU desktop at home. Some kind of idle time donation using the PSP would be nice, but I fear that doing Folding on a single-core CPU that’s roughtly the same as the roughly 300Mhz PS2 CPU would be so unbelievably slow as to be worthless.

Folding runs about 8x faster on the PS3 than it does on my single-core AMD 4000 CPU desktop at home.

]]> By: James http://www.aeropause.com/2007/08/psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-20890 James Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:14:54 +0000 http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/2007/08/psp-foldinghome-misses-the-point/#comment-20890 Honestly, I'd much rather have my PSP download packets of Folding and let it fold, pluggged in, at my desk all day. I'd want that much more than the Remote Play. Honestly, I’d much rather have my PSP download packets of Folding and let it fold, pluggged in, at my desk all day.

I’d want that much more than the Remote Play.

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