Quote Originally Posted by bs_texas View Post
And, I haven't received my first electric bill yet either.
That will be what ultimately throttles you, I believe. Since we started averaging over 90 degrees daily, I've shut off all folding on my heavy lifters. I'm down to two boxes now - one is an atom cpu on my netbook, it does the small 600 pt units, but it can do a 2-3 a day. The other chunks out a ~8kish every day or two - but its on a 250W power supply that is no where near maxed.

Not only does it become a matter of direct cost (kilowatt hours), but heat dissipation causing your A/C to work harder too. It is 15 degrees hotter in the back room if I leave the i7 folding in the summer (add GPUs and it shuts down from overheating) - which sucks when I want to actually use the PC. Once fall hits I'll turn them back on. Can we skip this summer and go straight to winter, please?