Xbox 360 'Folding@home' could be possible in future

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with a processor that's of equal power to the PS3,then you have my commitment that we'll look at that,

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Something about that makes me feel as tho if the xbox does not perform equally to the ps3 they will not consider folding@home.

I also have a feeling that xbox will use folding@home not with its processors but with its graphics card since it can even outperform the ps3's cell processor.

With the number of X-boxes connected to the internet I don't think it's such a bad idea.

anyone who says a 360 is not at least as 80% as powerful as the PS3 is fooling them selfs I see 80% as reasonable 10% on look there is enough of a difference to give the PS3 a nod there and they might can do more with physics thats another 10% however its going to be awhile befor we see it implemented.

folding@home is cute...but silly to use it as a benchmark it reminds me of Quake 3 and the driver wars ATI and ninvia ran years back they tweaked the driver to run Q3 better to pad their image.

I think they should add F@h to the 360! Although it might not be as powerful as the PS3 if F@h can help cure disease then EVERYONE benefits!

Just for kicks lets say 30% of all PS3s and 360s sold are hooked up to a high-speed connection and running (gaming or not) at any given time.

Using these figures (via VGChartz.com), 2,892,000 360s and 984,000 PS3s are connected to a high-speed internet connection and running at any given time.

If just 10% of that amount or 387,600 consoles were Folding at any given time that would drastically help F@h's efforts in finding cures for diseases both new and old.

I think it would be a smart move to introduce F@h to the 360, even if they did it for a limited time to see what the turn out would be (and if it was good then keep it!).

Peace

Question: Is Sony making money off of F@H?

Good for the MS wanting to help as well. However, I just get a strange vibe like they are going in it for the money.

I believe I read another acticle posted here stating that F@H was greatly helped researchers. I hope that MS will does it as well. We need to get rid of some of these really nasty diseases we have.

These opinions are not meant to start a stupid fanboy fight.

@ikari, I don't think Sony is making money off F@h. I really don't see how they could other then the money off the consoles they sell.

F@h, if I remember right, was created to give researchers supercomputer (or better now that the PS3, and hopefully the 360 as well, have joined the cause.) processing power for a fraction, probably just the development costs of F@h and the cost of keeping the servers the data is stored on, of the price.

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Question: Is Sony making money off of F@H?

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I highly doubt anyone makes a profit from F@H except maybe a few workers who need to pay their bills, if anything Sony are losing money off their deal to have F@H. Why? because a certain amount of people are buying the console purely just as a F@H machine, Sony lose money on the initial console and the fact that no games will sell to compensate that.

F@H for 360 would be a very good thing, even though its CPU is less powerful than the PS3 (a debatable fact, but still...) its GPU is far more powerful making it able to do a different type of W/U. So even then it probably couldn't be compared to the PS3 in terms of overall power.

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[quote]Question: Is Sony making money off of F@H?

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I highly doubt anyone makes a profit from F@H except maybe a few workers who need to pay their bills, if anything Sony are losing money off their deal to have F@H. Why? because a certain amount of people are buying the console purely just as a F@H machine, Sony lose money on the initial console and the fact that no games will sell to compensate that.

F@H for 360 would be a very good thing, even though its CPU is less powerful than the PS3 (a debatable fact, but still...) its GPU is far more powerful making it able to do a different type of W/U. So even then it probably couldn't be compared to the PS3 in terms of overall power.[/quote]
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from what I have seen the PS3 has the potential of begin 20-30% more powerful than the 360 but when you break that down to real world terms the difference is barely noticeable.

I just can't wait until they release Folding@Home
for my washing machine.It's RISC processor would
eat a PS3,360 combo for breakfast!

Please.

They have enough problems with heat just running games. Now you want to max the CPU and leave it on for 24 hours straight? Very Bad Idea.

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Please.

They have enough problems with heat just running games. Now you want to max the CPU and leave it on for 24 hours straight? Very Bad Idea.

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That rings true for both of them altho the PS3 is not made like a heater :X

@ZzeusS

That may have been true for the oldest batch of 360s (the PS3 also had similar but not quite as pronounced problems at the start!) the newer ones have no problem running 24/7.

I left mine on as a test running videos via TVersity in an (OOPS!) XBox 1 case which caused it to not get proper ventilation (the bottom intakes were blocked by the case!) but it still ran fine for about 20 hours before manually took it out of the case noticing the blocked intakes and let it cool down and shut off.

Yes, the first batch of 360s had over heating problems but they have fixed that now and they would be fine running F@h 24/7 as long as they have proper ventilation.

Peace

360's running folding@home will probably blow up over heat or get ring of death

i have had my ps3 since it came out in November and have ran f@h 2 2 3 days straight then played games and had no over heating problems at all.

I've played a 360 non-stop,left it on since I bought it at launch
and it still won't die.Pure fluke I'm sure!(Slight Sarcasm!)

What I'm saying is most people who have problems SHOUT about it
and that gives an impression of DOOM while others who are happy
are quiet but suspicious that it might happen to them.

This behaviour has been happening for centuries.
FEAR is the MIND KILLER!

HAHAHAHAAAHAAHAAHAAAAHAHAAAA

<Calms down and makes cup-a-tea!>

well then if thats true i havn't heard any ps3 owners shouting about their consoles over heating or having problems i guess there is no DOOM