To all the crunchers with "little" computer power. Just a reminder that the whole point of WCG is to get all of us little people together to do big things!
I started with a single core in 05 (and with UD earlier) and for some years where I was almost homeless, (not for money but work was erratic and moving around) I crunched nothing. Since 08 when I got married and rooted in place, bought a new computer and took off running. It's all about doing what you can when you can.

Now about points, surprisingly I'm down to 961 (hit 999 mar 31 but lost a comp so thought I was gonna go back up but still doin ok.

P.S. Partially due to all the electricity I use for crunching (about 250 watts each for 2 I7s plus a bit for a laptop)
That is at least 360 kw a month almost half my electricity for the month... I'm having a solar installer come do an estimate for my house. I live in Canada but in the sunniest province (alberta). We just point our solar panels closer to the horizon :) Alberta gets most of it's electrical generation from Coal. We all know (should know) that coal is bad coming out of the ground, bad burning it and bad disposing of it (coal ash has been linked to cancer). There is quite a bit of wind energy going up in southern Alberta but solar is still slow to pick up. I'm thinking if I can afford it, a 5 KW system. Ok I can't afford it, but I can pay on it.
Also I want to build a new system but am waiting for a system even better than sandy bridge (and it's supposedly 17 percent faster than a similarly clocked I7 and less power). We will see how that goes.

EDIT: One interesting thing I did to save money was get a Magic Jack (available in US and Canada) It hooks to your computer then you plug your phone base station into it. It is costing me 2 bucks a month for all the local and long distance in Canada and US. The $30 or $40 I was spending for a land line is paying my electricity usage for all computers (but not the administrative and distribution fees sadly). Be aware if you use phone while downloading a lot it has issues but simple surfing seems ok) It's a nice alternative to just getting rid of the land line and using cell phones. I'm not trying to sell it, just making my computers earn there keep since they are on anyway

Sweet Gil!
You gotta love Canada

FREE COOLING!

Current Ranking: 2,319

Was on hiatus, went to primegrid to get some badges.
Rank now 121

20,000 places in a month, 214,961 daily return, 87th yesterday.
Reminds me of someone.

Brink, you have been tempted by the dark side, but there is still hope.

Oh yeah, up another couple of spots, 593