Well said!

One of the two AMD quad cores bit the dust.
Can't get it to power up.
It is a replacement for a Gateway P4 that failed.
That's the third Gateway to fail, my notebook will not communicate with the network and I am tired of the problems.
If it has to be replaced it won't be a Gateway (Acer, or eMachines).

I am happy with my "wife's" new computer that i can crunch on.. has defiantly brought me up on power since Christmas (being an i7)


Yes Rcc is correct about badges being of no real value... but they are just like points and everything else its trying to quantify that you are making a difference

@ grumpygrampy -- in the big scheme of things every computer helps according to boincstats

for ALL PROJECTS you are rank 257,117 out of 2,347,901 and have completed more than 89% of all boinc users and rising rapidly through the ranks.

as for WCG people (accoring to boincstats)
Accumulated more credit than % of all World Community Grid users 87.18%
with a rank of 48,050

yes you may not have the fastest computer but you are making a difference...

think of it this way our of the whole worlds population you are rank 48,050 on WCG out of an estimated 6,996,803,798 population of the world.

you should not worry about the Power crunchers... myself I have 4 computers running (one is an i7 the rest are old) you are doing what you can with what you have and what you can support...
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looks like i was first on team to get there snail but it dose not matter we are trying to find cures for everything before us or someone we knows dies from it.

@nasher - thanks for the encouraging words. I have no problem with accumulating points/badges. Just don't want to have 'super crunchers' waiting on us slower folk for their validations.

@LM - My kids went to DISNEY WORLD several years ago, and brought me back a hat with GRUMPY on it.
(They must have been out of Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Doc, Happy and Bashful at the time). I wear it everywhere.

crunching...crunching...

Don't be down on AMD just because the Gateway computer was poorly built. I have built my own computers for most of my computing career, and have usually leaned toward AMD because they are so much less expensive. For the most part, they have been as reliable as any Intel CPU. I went with the Intel 2nd gen i7 this time because it gives me more crunching power, and I can now afford to pay a bit more. But I just built a computer for my neighbor using an AMD Sempron CPU and the entire computer including case cost $200. You really can't do that with an Intel CPU.

EDIT:
An interesting note: The computer I built for my neighbor replaced an old Gateway that had given up the ghost But this particular Gateway didn't owe her anything... it was probably 10 year old.