[SoftballMominVA]

Just so I have an idea how my procesor is doing--I'm folding at about 13s to 15s per frame (unless a child is running a high graphics game, then it slows to about 30s a frame).

Is that good? bad? normal?

[dfwddr]

-I'm folding at about 13s to 15s per frame (unless a child is running a high graphics game, then it slows to about 30s a frame).

It really depends on which WU your doing at the time. The easiest way to compare yourself to other FReepers, is to download and install Egon's monitoring program, build up a little history, and then check your times for a project, compared to others. This is done by clicking on a project name listed under your computer. Egon has put a lot of time and effort into this tool, and it is well worth using.

[texas booster]

I will ditto what dfwddr said. FReepmail Egon for his monitoring program and it will make more sense.

Frame speeds are so subjective that it is very hard to make comparisons. The graphics cards actually means fairly little to the over all speed of a work unit. The GROMACS core is design to be as independent as possible of hardware, with just a few tweaks to implement assembly code into looping functions.

The work units also make a big difference in speed, depending on what is being studied. Some Tinker cores can run very slow and some GROMACS can run very slow. If you have a work unit with 20,000,000 frames then each frame normally goes by quicker than a WU with 4,000,000 frames.