Folding on a Pentium II?

[Wrawrat]

Hey guys, I plan to buy an used P2 to use it as a personal web server... It'll probably be a P2 350. I wonder if it's fast enough to fold a WU before the deadline. Should I bother to try or it would be useless to raise my production?

[Wrawrat]

Folding on a Pentium II?

[astrobee]

I have a dually PII 300mhz system at work that contributes nicely.
I have it running two clients. It does nothing but fold and fold and fold.
I have never seen it miss a deadline but I have not checked the log on that box for a long
time. I will look the next time I am at that office. A 350 should be fine as long is it does not have alot
of other work to do. On the otherhand. I believe the pentium 233 mmx print server in the same office
still holds the record for the slowest box on the team. (as high as 720 hours a work unit) A little bit to slow.

[ScutMonkey]

Dude, I have a celeron 533 which is slower than your P2 and it makes deadlines.  I'd say go for it.

[Wrawrat]

Oki doki. Like I said, it'll be my personal web server. I don't think Apache, PHP, MySQL and 500 hits/day (where 99% of them will be from my own computer) will stress the computer.

Scut, why do you say your Celeron 533 is slower?

[ScutMonkey]

That was supposed to say Cyrix, sorry.  It's late and I've been dealing with work for around 20 hours at this point.