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This time of year I tend to fold occasionally just for the heat. If by chance that should happen during this event, there is no need to include me in any part of prizes. On another note, I do miss the advanced control interface. This browser based control annoys me and seems somewhat limited compared to the old advanced console.

I've always thought gaming chairs were a scam. If you want to spend decent money, at least get a good chair like a Stealcase or Herman Miller. Something that's actually rated to be sat in for hours at a time without wrecking your back. As for my most recent purchase... Picked up a delidded Core Ultra 265K. Now to track down a decent CUDIMM kit without selling any organs

I'll go pick up 20 5090's

I've been replacing a lot of my older cards because I get tired of the office being an oven. It still is, but not as bad lol. Newer Nvidia cards are really the only way to go. AMD just isn't very competitive for F@H. I replaced my 6950XT with a 5070Ti and it's been great. Little over quadruple the PPD while sipping less power. Really anything RTX 40 or 50 series is great for folding. All the 8GB cards are pretty equally hated by gamers so they can be found relatively cheap when people upgrade their prebuilt rigs. So, 4060 or 5060 and the TI versions of those cards. They also undervolt pretty well to further drop the power consumption without losing hardly any PPD. 4070 and 5070 are in a weird spot. They typically go for more than I'd like to spend on a secondary card that's mostly for folding. Being a 12GB card, they are not something I'd put in any of my main rigs. IF you find one for a great deal, they are solid cards. 4070 Ti is in the same boat as the above. The 4070 Ti Super and 5070 Ti are 16GB cards and good candidates for a main GPU and also really strong for F@H. 4080 and 5080 are again in a bit of a weird spot where the jump in cost outpaces the jump in performance from the previous tier. 4090 and 5090 are god tier for PPD, but are way overpriced. Thanks AI...

Prize for MOST WORK UNITS completed during challenge. Sorry USA only unless you want to pay for shipping. Board is just a couple months old. Was in my main rig and I just upgraded. Has a chonker VRM and tons of USB and great audio. Ideal for a streamer or studio work.

Oh wow, yeah totally missed that. I'll keep an eye out in the coming months then.

I have to ask, since you're probably the only other person here with a beast FX rig still running......... Does yours also happen to have a wireless forcefield surrounding the damn thing or something? Every time I turn my FX rig on, EVERY wireless device, even my cell phone, stops working if they're within like 10 feet of my FX rig. Walk 10 feet away, the wireless devices all of a sudden work fine again! I love that stupid rig.......

Funny timing, I've just happened to return to the fold as well. Been folding on and off for the past year, but I started making a more concentrated effort yesterday. Running multiple rigs, but I'll have to see how the heat goes and will probably have to back things off for 24/7 operations, even in the winter. What's the general feel on folding on CPUs these days? Is there a temp target to shoot for? I have a 9800X3D that might be decent, but it hovers around 90-92C on a 280mm AIO. Great to be back nonetheless, happy to still see activity here.

18.5 mil PPD in a Windows gaming rig. When I get caught up on some other projects I'd like to see what it will do on Linux.

I am searching for a better folding card that does not use a bunch of power. The 2080 and the 6800xts are just not efficient. Being on a fixed income and tight budget makes things harder. I will be back here and there but 24-7 is definitely a no go.

I'm folding to stay warm

GTX 960 is folding again for Mike.

I don't own anything with an electronic parking brake and don't want to. I have three cars with manual transmissions and standard hand brakes. I do my own maintenance. I have a Cobb Accessport in the Mustang that can read/reset codes. If I need to change anything more advanced, I have a USB to OBD2 adapter and use a program called FORScan that can interface with just about every module in the car. Eventually when it gets too hard to find vehicles without all that crap, I guess I'll move somewhere that stays a bit warmer all year and go back to riding a motorcycle every day. Granted, even bikes are starting to get loaded up with extra fluff these days.

I finally have my FX 8 core system up and running again. Can confirm, the FX system FEELS "snappier", and Windows boot time is basically nothing compared to my x3d setups.

I saw that video! Was actually not surprised seeing how well optimized BF6 appears to be. The FX series are still "capable" CPU's in modern terms, they're just really slow.

Week long team challenge. If you can turn on extra machines for team 239902, do so during the last week of January. No need to join [H]ardForum, but you are welcomed to do so for trash talk purposes. When: The event will be Jan 24 10AM PST - 31st 10AM PST https://hardforum.com/threads/2026-7th-annual-folding-challenge-jan-25-31-2026.2045313/ I'm going to see what prizes I can put up for EHW, so stay tuned for that.

I hate that web interface too! Thank you for joining

Am in il post on social media in a fews days!

12-Year Old AMD FX-9590 CPU Is Able To Run Battlefield 6, YouTuber Gets 30-40 FPS While Being Severaly CPU-Limited WCCFTECH.COM AMD's 12-Year-Old AMD FX-9590 CPU has managed to run Battlefield 6 without any major issues despite not being listed in the minimum specs.

I wish my 9950X3D / 128 GB would boot up in 15 seconds, especially after making certain changes in the bios...

If you start wearing aluminium foil am going to start worrying Mine not doing that but the usb port on a few of my am3 gigabyte did act crazy so maybe interference. Unplug evwry usb thing to test.

I don't remember it activating a force field but I'll fire it up and find out soon. Might take it outside to bench it. Get all the snow on the back deck melted off

Asus Astral 5090 OC LC AIO ($US 3090); already had it past 3400 MHz core and GDDRX oc'ed to max slider > 2060 GB/s

Count me in. Gotta break in or down my new Christmas present

I posted in eXtremeGaming as well. See if I can't convince some new kids to join up again like last year. It's all in good fun afterall! I'll see if I can't get a few cards up and live before January 25th myself! I'm still not comfortable on my AI Pro R9700, but I'd be happy to torture my 7900XTX and 1080Ti. Maybe toss the 6950 XT at it too. Idk, maybe the RTX 3050 I have laying around might do decent numbers too? I'm trying to figure out how to NOT melt my apartment's wiring but get as many going as I can.

There were some serious server issues at folding@home this year. I stopped posting the monthly foldathons because of it. I assume they are back on track so if we have a descent turnout for the [H] competition I'll resume those.

Good timing for me to get back into it I suppose. I'll try to have a few rigs active for this for sure.

Made me fire up Pink Floyd as if I needed a reason

How much ppd does that 5070ti put out on average?

YAY! I am going to have the pair of 1060's and hopefully a 4060 as well.

I've been steadily working on rigs getting the PPD up for this event. The dilemma now being which team to fold under. Since EHW was dying last year, I folded for [H]. CoolGTX just slipped by me the other day, so I'll probably fold for EHW until I retake the #5 spot on our team then switch to [H] for a little bit. If by some miracle y'all decide to really kick it in gear and we have a chance to place anything other than dead last, I'll throw everything I can at it.

100% with you on this. Also if brake fail you can pull it slowly. Meanwhile engaging the e brake in a curve would probably end up badly

Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Just remember, we're all Microsoft's QA testers now. This is hardly news with the way microsoft is, but the title was so good I couldn't help myself.

Samsung’s Rumored Memory Price Hike Could Be a ‘Catastrophe’ for PC Gamers, Potentially Driving RAM Prices to Unimaginable Levels WCCFTECH.COM Samsung is rumored to announce a significant increase in its memory prices, which means that consumer memory may become even more expensive. Kinda happy i bough 2x64gb stick for my server

Hello, is there anybody out there?

The Supreme Court Will Decide If Sony Can Turn Off Your Internet if You Pirate Their Content In Billion Dollar Lawsuit | Cord Cutters News CORDCUTTERSNEWS.COM Today on December 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a closely watched copyright dispute that... The article is fairly short. I think it's worth reading. I could have copied a few more paragraphs, but decided I shouldn't copy the entire article. In todays information age, the internet is pretty much required. Gone are the phone books of old. Sony's attempt to take that away over copyright violations means I won't be purchasing anything Sony makes in the foreseeable future. Sony tried to sue individual users, but that wasn't profitable. Now they are suing companies with deeper pockets.

Been there, done that with SuddenLink before Altice bought them. Woke to the notice that my internet was blocked and to contact them to contest it. Like you,it was for torrenting some cartoon. Like I told them at the time, I'm almost 50.If I'm gonna torrent anything, it'll be porn. They told me to change my password to a more secure one and turned it back on with a warning.

If this turns out to be true, I might have a lawsuit against Disney! Long story short - apparently SOMEBODY on my home network was torrenting some stupid Disney TV show. Spectrum shut off our internet service due to it. Still don't know who it was, or if it was even true since nobody in my house even watches that stupid show (I think it was Mandalorian). But yeah, Spectrum had cut me off from internet services for 6 months for that. And they were the ONLY broadband company here (still is). I can get CenturyLink DSL with 1.5 Mbps down / 256k up.

On the new Mustang the physical handbrake is an optional add on The physical handbrake should be considered a safety feature. If you are under steering on ice or snow pulling the handbrake could potentially save you from crashing into a tree or the curb. My dad dented a rim on snow once. I bumped into a stop sign once because I didn't pull the handbrake hard enough and I under steered.

You shouldn't have to employ workarounds to deliberately hostile anti-consumer acts by auto manufacturers who have engineered solutions to previously nonexistent problems. Parking brakes have worked for generations before this garbage. Anyone could have seen this coming after BMW tried to charge subscription fees for heated seats. The contemporary automotive industry is built on greed and attempted entrapment of consumers into the manufacturer's product and service ecosystem, as well as financial debt if you're crazy enough to take out a loan (I could just stop the sentence there, but in this case, a loan offered by the dealer). I realize I'm not contributing much with respect to the poll because I won't buy a car that phones home or has unnecessary bullshit systems to complicate functions that had been working fine previously for decades.

It's almost cold enough out to fire up my FX9590 HD7990 rig. I installed W11 on it just for the lolz and it was surprising how good the system feels just derping around. I built it to play games from it's day which it does fine aside from the massive heat output. No interest in trying to run modern stuff but it's cool that it still can.