[Betty_Swallocks]

Doesn't anyone else feel that it's a little unfair that there should be such a differential for the points value of workunits?

Those of us without monster rigs not only can't compete on the number of workunits carried out but we have the double whammy of our workunits being somehow less valuable too.

Surely a workunit shoud be the same points value no matter what machine was used to calculate it.

On the team I was a member of there is one guy who has a much more powerful rig than mine and he has done 165 workunits for a total of over 205k points. That works out at over 1200 points per unit.

I have an Athlon64 3500 which gives me 250 ppu.

My son has an even slower machine and is only credited with an average of 22 ppu!

The unit is the same. I assume that the guy with 1200ppu isn't doing some mega super units that are going to save the galaxy from annihilation and mine are the equivalent of finding out why cornflakes go soggy when you leave them in milk. So why are his over 50 times more valuable than Josh's and nearly 5 times more than mine?

It's really not very encouraging. We're told that every contribution counts but clearly F@H think my contribution and Josh's aren't worth recognising.

Can you guess which one of the 3 is still folding?

Mine isn't. It was on 24/7 folding until I rebuilt my machine when I decided that if my units are so worthless then I really wasn't prepared to leave my processor running at 100% 24 hours a day to churn them out with all the power usage that entails.

We all save the planet in our own way. For the value that F@H attach to my contribution I'll save the ozone layer instead and will turn my PC off when I'm not using it.