Well done, Gargoyle- this article just about covers what’s out there. The 23rd date I had also read- it is the European release date- but no one would explicitly tie the two together.

Set aside the gaming aspect of the PS3 for a moment.

The PS3 costs about $650US retail (give or take) and is said to consume 380Watts during peak operation.

However, (based on suggested performance of “10 times that of a standard" PC) it may possibly fold as much as 2 Kentsfield quad-cores- the cheapest of which go for about $850US and consume about 130W each.

Of course, if you wish to run your Kentsfields, you are also going to need motherboards, memory, PSUs, disk drives … and then you may also wish to play games on at least one system- so figure in the video card X factor too.

Okay, one system may run you maybe $13-1500 and consume 2-300 Watts?

So there are some of us who are seriously considering the PS3 as a potential “folding mostly” or “folding only” system. If the numbers pan out, this could be the best fold-for-the-dollar deal out there.

(visit http://forum.folding-community.org/f...s3-client.html if you become more interested)