"Quite simply, the impact of running Folding@Home in the background is negligible. Even the most discerning users won't notice it."

"With the results we've seen here, one more exuse for not donating excess CPU time to the Folding@Home project is gone. Whether you're playing games, encoding media files, surfing the web, slaving away in a cubicle at work, or mumbling to your computer, running the Folding@Home client won't slow you down"