Mrinfinit3 Much appreciated for the offer of help.
I have just looked through the most confusing website in the world.
The uk laws are more buisness based and have no relevance as such to individuals unless you are a registered charity.
But then in the long run i switch the computer on when i get in from work and it stays on till i go to bed.
So writing it off would not be worthwhile. We are on a plan called economy 7 so from when i get home we have slighty cheaper electric than in the day.
Wouldnt want to leave it on all day due to temperature issues. But in the night its cooler so they are about 10c cooler. i will game on my laptop for a bit.
Have set the PS3 running also now did some research on the folding at home website.
Have set it to 142900 so thats cool too.
EG is right the newer PS3 models are not as effective and consume about 115watts while folding.
I have the original pal one and it is according to the folding at home website it runs slower than a GPU but faster than a PC cpu so its middle of the road. And can work on more complex tasks. and my model consumes about 200w while folding and thats what the equivalent of 3 lights on so no biggie either and sony have designed it with this in mind so it can run all day quite happy.
So thats that i only bought it to play gran turismo and it aint been used since so its better to do that surely....