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Thanks bud, you did great too! You know I was just kidding, just trying to push you all to do more than you were planning to. No matter if it was 1 billion, or 5 million, as long as we improved our output to move up the rankings as a team, we achieved our goal. Thanks everyone who participated

I've got a few clients online too

Good evening everyone (or morning / day / whenever you see this)! Unfortunately our community has been hit with a giant spam attack today. We are not the only Invision community to have been hit by this type of attack in recent months apparently and it is still an ongoing attack on Invision communities. We are working on rolling the site back to this morning, so the spam can be removed. We're implementing the appropriate fixes right now on the back end. Hopefully, with any luck, this should be resolved moving forward. Please accept our apologies. The moderation team now has DIRECT contact information to both myself and the site owner in case this happens again in the future. Changes made so far: "Announcements" page on discord has been removed from general users temporarily to avoid spamming everyone's phones Spam protection on site has been changed to different levels than previous Currently registered spammers have been removed and banned Site has been rolled back to working status Normally for the end users of course, this information would typically be hidden. Well you guys know me, and I am just an end user. So in the effort of full transparency, there's where we're at. Thank you, ~Management

I noticed today that hertz9753 is about to pass my wife, Patsy. In case you do not know, Mike Hertz was a man that some of us had the priveledge of his kindness making an impact on our lives. It made me think about how the folding community will always be about folding@home and that a lot of us, and our families, were brought into this movement with us. I've been absent due to my hobbies taking a back seat to my direct family is the way to summarize it best. Many of us have moved on. But, to those who read this, no matter who you are, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you have ever done for this community no matter what forum your ties are with. Shameless plug for Philistine fudge to see if anyone still talks to him because my wife misses her Peppermint Patsy Fudge. Clearly what @Bastiaan_NLdid for this event was beyond crazy, and you know what, we love this man for it! Don't be bashful, sir, that was NOT cheap! Incredible!!!

I just added two more 7900 XTX's, a 1080Ti....idk, i forgot what all I've added now lol. I think I've got 10 cards folding now, mostly AMD. Putting out around 60m PPD roughly right now though!

due to an arctic outbreak, I'm adding my 6900xt into the fold. Not the best PPD, but a nice little space heater for my bedroom.

GTX 960 is folding again for Mike.

Then you should be fine. Can always undervolt it a bit if you're really concerned. Now if you flashed a way spicier BIOS, I could see you running into some issues.

^ It's a shame Asus seems to keep churning out overpriced products that don't live up to expectations. Wish we still had EVGA in the enthusiast motherboard space. As for my most recent purchases.... Just snagged a Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 Mobo with an i7-4930K CPU + 32GB RAM for an upcoming HWBot comp Grabbed an open box RTX 5060 Ti 16GB from Microcenter for Folding@home. The PCB is hilariously tiny. I'm going to watercool it for fun and will post some pics when I do. Also picked up an Optane 905P to replace the tired boot drive in my sim rig. I have some EXTREMELY special updates for that rig in the works.

Look at the user count in the top10. YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!

My output is not consistent, so I can't promise anything. I'm trying though, but it's a bit expensive Yeah, I'm amazed those GTX580's do so well!! And for 3 hours, with the help of Jan and @firedfly, I managed to hit this:

I answered phones for Comcast (Xfinity) for a couple years, so here's an industry secret that they probably don't want everyone to know. (I never signed an NDA.) If you are calling to reduce your bill, do not talk to billing. Their job is to explain the price of the bill you have. If you want to reduce the price, they will drop you to a lower tier and tell you everything that you'll lose as a result, in an effort to resell the higher tier. They might also offer a 'deal' if you are adding additional service, which will equate to more services for the same amount of money you are calling to complain about. The department you want to talk to is cancellation. If you are about to cancel your service, why certainly, they are happy to give you that same deal that was rolling off in an effort to keep you as a customer. Sometimes when I talk to cancellation, I get a customer service agent who is bad at their job. Their job is to keep me as a customer, but if they don't like the tone of my voice, are relatively new, or don't feel like hassling they will just cancel the service. For example I've had them try to sell me cellphone service, when I said no they were ready to cancel service rather than save me as a customer. If they do that, I set the cancellation date out a few days, then call in and cancel the appointment. The appointment cancellation is all done through the automated system now, it doesn't require talking to anyone. Back when I used to talk to people, I'd just tell them I couldn't get the new provider out until next week. After the appointment is cancelled, I'll call in to cancel service again, claiming I just needed to reschedule it. That agent will usually try harder to save me as a customer. I've also had comcast call me while I had the disconnect appointment open, so it can be advantageous to set the date out 4-5 days and wait a day or two before calling to cancel the appointment. Just make sure to mark the cancellation date in your phone as a reminder to call in again. Because for a techie, losing internet is worse than death!

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.

Never posted the final specs/pics of my updated ThreadRipper workstation. 2600W in 44L is fun. Pulls about 2200-2300W with CPU and GPUs running all out. Case: Lian Li 011 AIR MINI CPU: AMD Threadripper 7960X Memory: 192GB Micron DDR5-5600 RDIMM @ 6200 MHz GPUs: Asrock AQUA 7900xtx, 2x Radeon VII Drives: 2x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (OS), Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB (misc data and VMs/containers), 2x Micron 5200 PRO 3840GB (backup), SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB (zram backing device) PSUs: Super Flower Leadex Titanium 1600W, EVGA SuperNova G3 1000W Cooling: MO-RA IV 600

So I guess I never did a build log for this... Around 2020 I gave my sister a build I did for fun just so she had a desktop computer... It was an i7 6700 with an OG GTX Titan when I built it, but I swapped the watercooled Titan for a 980 Ti since I knew she wouldn't maintain a custom loop. No pics of what I sent her off with, but here's what it looked like with the Titan. It was in a windowless black Fractal Define Nano S. A solid little system at the time, but it was never cute enough for her even after covering it with stickers. A while ago Cooler Master wanted us to review an SFX PSU. I said I'd do it if they sent along a Pink NR200 to review along with it... They had just discontinued the pink and so I was sent a white version instead. For anybody interested Here's the review of the PSU/Case. After the review, I built her a bit of an upgrade. i5 12500 GTX 1070 32GB Trident Z Royal Crucial P3 Plus 2TB Thermalright SI-100 CM NR200P wrapped with sparkle blue vinyl That has served her well the last couple years. She still doesn't game much but was interested in trying Hogwarts Legacy. Figured that might be a little too much for the ole 1070. As well as Nvidia starting to phase out support for Pascal. Figured it was time for a bit of an upgrade. I just happened to be in Tampa for work last week, so I stopped by her new place and swapped in an RTX 3060 Ti.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/discord-is-rolling-out-facial-scanning-and-id-checks-in-march-for-everyone-who-doesnt-want-to-be-locked-into-a-teen-appropriate-experience/ I don't even really know what to say here. Rumors all over the internet put this as not a good announcement. Personally, I have pulled ALL of my payments to Discord, including my Nitro and all server boosts I had put out for 2 different communities. This is a me decision because I feel like this is the start to something really bad from Discord. There's talks of alternatives popping up all over social media, but I guess we'll see where this heads from here. Rumor has it, all apps and sites are going to be required to do this in the future. I don't know about you guys, but I personally support the user's right to their personal data. I don't think facial scans, or ID requirements are the correct answer to the current ongoing issues.

Sounds a lot like what I'm dealing with, lol. Michele and I got sick last month with the flu or something nasty, and it lasted about a week. On top of that Michele had major neck surgery. Then last week I got sick again with something nasty but different because this one had a sore throat and hacking cough that wouldn't let me sleep. That lasted about 5 or so days then went away just in time for my back to seize up (I blame these weather spikes). Finally getting over that, and now I have contractors working on some projects in the yard. The problem is these contractors turned out to be incompetent imbeciles. And now Michele is sick with the hacking cough thing I had last week. I just want to get some sleep.

@pio Since the other ones are in hours, I'd just keep it consistent and go with 168 hour. Good job everybody! I had a great time as always. Special thanks to @Bastiaan_NL for going above and beyond. I was on the fence about trying to go for a billion during the week or being content with what I was doing. You reminding me that I wasn't being EXXXtreme!!!11!! enough was a big help.

Happy to see everyone joining

Title updated.

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...

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.

So I was in Microcenter the other day returning a mouse I didn't like... Somehow ended up buying a monitor I didn't know I needed lol. I definitely wouldn't have dropped a grand on a monitor this size, but they had one open box for $500 which is still a tad cheaper than a basic 240Hz OLED. Zero hours on it so whoever bought it must have just had buyers remorse and took it right back. The main monitor on my bedroom rig had been an older Viewsonic Elite with an actual G-Sync module. So I had been thinking I should do something different with that rig. Going back to an Nvidia card that is better than the 6950XT (without regressing on VRAM) would have been considerably more than I spent on the monitor. It was also tax free weekend in Ohio for under $500 which was the cherry on top.

Spam attack resolved and mitigated. Situation Nominal.

This is exactly correct. The best memory overclocking motherboards have only two RAM slots. The rarity of them is sad and has an undesirable effect on the pricing of the almost non-existent options. Most of the options available are crappy 4-DIMM boards at all price points.

Awesome! I finally put together a dedicated folding rig again and have been testing it out. Old GPU's are surprisingly more effective than I thought they would be. Hope to put up some consistent points for a while.

For the record, I went ahead and purchased the X870E Apex. I was disappointed for the reason I was worried I would be and the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze. It gives me less than the AORUS Master at twice the cost. Returned it to NewEgg for a refund. It's not what I would consider to be an $800 motherboard in terms of functionality or performance.

I can't update the OP, so updated components are below. Thinking about swapping the board and CPU. I really don't have any justification for that, since I know all the idiosyncrasies of the 2970WX and overall it's still overkill for what it does. Components Case - Thermaltake Core X5 Motherboard - ASRock Rack X399D8A-2T PSU - EVGA Supernova G2 1000W Silverstone Strider Platimum 1200W CPU - AMD Threadripper 2970WX RAM - 4x 8x Micron 16GB SK Hynix 32GB DDR4-3200 ECC-UDIMM (eventually 8x 16GB) GPUs - Radeon 5700XT 2x Vega 64 2x Radeon VII Radeon 6900XT SSDs - 2x Intel Optane 905P 960GB U.2 NVMe, Intel Optane 905P 480GB U.2 NVMe, ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB NVMe, SK Hynix P31 1TB NVMe, 4x Inland Premium 1TB NVMe, 2x crucial MX500 2TB SATA HDDs - 2x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB, 1x Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB, 5x 1x Seagate EXOS 8TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB, 4x 8x 4x Seagate EXOS X18 16TB, 1x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB, 1x Seagate EXOS X20 20TB 1x 4TB Toshiba N300 (Hot swap bay for backups) CD/DVD/BluRay - LG WH14NS40 flashed for 4k UHD Cooling CPU - Watercool HEATKILLER IV Pro Copper GPU - EK-Quantum Vector Radeon VII Copper/Acetal Alphacool Eisblock Radeon 6900XT Radiator - 2x XSPC EX360 2x Watercool HEATKILLER 360-L Pump - 2x Watercool D5 w/ EK-XRES 100 Reservoir Watercool Industrial Dual D5 Top w/ 100mm Watercool HEATKILLER Tube Reservoir Fans - Silverstone AP183 (front intake), 6x Arctic P14 PWM (rear exhaust, HDD fans, midplane), 6x Artic P12 PWM (radiator fans)

Threw a 4090 at it.

@pio stop being a wimp The Radeon AI PRO R9700 is only a 300w card. They also have the power connector at the rear of the card so no issues with a tight bend against the side panel. Really the only cards I'd be concerned about at all are 4090 and 5090's and only if you're pushing them pretty hard. The card I've had the longest with a 12VHPWR is my 4070 TI I got a week after launch and it's been plugged in at least a dozen times in half a dozen systems. Using the included adapter or dedicated 12VHPWR cables with no issues at all. I've run everything full bore for extended periods of time, but lately I undervolt everything just to minimize heat dumped into the room. I'd be curious to see what sort of PPD the AI Pro does stock and with a decent undervolt. My 6950XT sucked in general for folding, but at least didn't lose much even with a pretty significant UV. Being Mr. AyyyMD, you'll probably be sad to hear that I have retired that card and am now fully team green for the fleet of things that actually get used every day.

I'm working on firing something up

The EOC stats don't update very often so it's hard to tell where we really lie currently. Behind the scenes I've convinced another heavy hitter to fire up some hardware. So we might end up in a neck and neck brawl with TPU for a while.

Techpowerup is where a lot of our members went when the site was closing. I made an account over there but ultimately decided to fold for HardOCP instead. I came back to EHW when it was purchased and looked like things would go back to business as usual, but it's been a slow crawl getting people back into folding here. I've been slowly replacing a lot of my GPUs with more power efficient RTX 40 and 50 series cards to be able to fold more. However, most of the builds are still in progress since I'm an idiot and watercool everything. THAT SAID... We ain't going down without a fight! I'm spinning up some hardware now. This is about all I'm going to be able to manage without finishing a couple builds.

4 Day Plus a few extra min, till this thing starts - OK , will have to see what happens --->>> However TechPowerup! is only 21.2 Hours away from Passing us ANY of OUR Team Folders ----> want 2 drop the hammer Now? You might have noticed, that I have already dropped the Hammer ExtremeHW Team Summary - Folding@Home Stats - EXTREME Overclocking FOLDING.EXTREMEOVERCLOCKING.COM F@H stats team summary for ExtremeHW. Help Folding at Home fight Coronavirus, further medical research, and prevent diseases with...

I had massive SSD failure, and I'm still recovering. -_-

A lot of that going around too sadly yup. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) doctors here in the states aren't federal workers, so non applicable here for what's going on. Definitely agree though that Doctors should be held to a higher standard than just following the directions in their laptops for care. A lot these days don't even listen to their patients anymore because the laptop simply says give X medication. They give the real practiced doctors a bad name. Kind of similar though to this, you've got really great people in these programs, and you've got really horrible slackers that refuse to do their job (most just there to collect a paycheck in the latter situation). It is possible to have both going on at the same time in such big programs (or even Doctors offices if they're a multi clinic situation). I just wish people (in these types of positions) would just simply go to work, and do the best dang job that they can do, period. Doctors, SSI workers, bankers, X federal agency (whichever). They're there to HELP people, so do it. If you're not doing that, then go find another job. My opinion lol.

I already have a nice test bench that I barely use, but I'm and idiot and still want this. Thankfully it's expensive enough to not be an impulse purchase. Now if they wanted to send one for review...

Yeow, over $800.00 / month! Mine is not that expensive thankfully (@ ~ $0.14/ kWh), though I've seen it over $600/M before. Still cheaper than owning a boat. Yes, the Electric bill for both running the Rigs & the extra central A/C load, to keep the house cool does get to be a bit of a money pit. My folding will slow down for the rest of the summer months; you might see more PPD once the cold winds start to blow in the late fall / early winter. ( see photo, 128.5 M Points in 24 Hours / not bad for summertime fun) Can't wait to see the next electric bill. Thank You damric, for all that you do for Extreme HW Folding community I enjoyed the 48 Hr sprint, thanks for letting me play!

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Time to play. It is a shame the weather will be in the 90s F or I could really put the PPD into overdrive Recently, I have switched over to Team 239902 FYI: I'm now officially retired from Mod duties with EVGA Forum

So I've had a Bitspower 2 DIMM block for a while. It uses the original Dominator hole spacing. The new Dominator Titanium kits, while they do have removable tops it's totally different spacing. So for that kit I just got the optional fins to replace the RGB top. I then bought "normal" IceMan blocks that have Dominator spacing to use that Bitspower block. From there I proceeded to buy 2 DDR5 kits that I just tossed in systems. Couple weeks ago I got a good deal on a F5-8000J4048G24GX2-TZ5N kit but it came with IceMan direct touch blocks. That is going into my main rig with the EPYC 4564P. Thanks to brother @Mr. Fox I got a great deal on a kit of F5-8000J3848H16GX2-TZ5NR that had the heatspreaders removed before (making it much less of a PITA for me). So finally the Bitspower block has a home after who knows how many years I've had it. I'm up to 7 DDR5 kits and 3 of them have blocks. I still don't know a damn thing about DDR5 tuning but everything will look cool at least.

This. Thank you to everyone who did participate! I would have, but heat and a bunch of AMD garbage that's not worth folding on........

Good job everyone that participated. Glad to have a few people folding even if it is too damn hot

Well it looks like my event start button didn't save right. I'll have to redo that when I get a minute, but you all know it starts midnight UTC.

Good timing i just realised i can push my 9070XT at 230-250w + 13900k at 200w + 5600G at 40w and my A/C keep up now Running BOINC and F@H currently 24/7

Should have a foldathon posted tomorrow.

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At this point I can't imagine playing any game without an SSD... the experience is just better and SSD's have come down enough where I can't see HDD's being viable unless you just need flat out storage for non games.