Bastiaan_NL

On 04/02/2026 at 20:34, BWG said:

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!!!

Thanks bud, and thank you too for all you've done in the past!
Family is always more important, and I'm glad you made the right choice. Take care

15 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

@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. 

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  
 

1 hour ago, bonami2 said:

I could probably add the vega frontier but driver may die and or my outlet with a 9070xt + 1070 

Is it really Extreme HardWare if nothing dies?
Whatever you blow up, make sure to record it

17 hours ago, SoloCamo said:

With the work unit completion rate and assuming no one powers down anything we should hold the lead.  

My output is not consistent, so I can't promise anything.
I'm trying though, but it's a bit expensive

22 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Glad you were able to fire up a few old cards. Every little bit helps. 

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:

11 hours ago, damric said:

Good to see you Bas 

You too bud

6 hours ago, BWG said:

My office was cold. I don't really have much more than a 5070, 2070 Super, and a 960 aside from the k5000 and a 670.

You could always rent some stuff
Good to see you btw

I've got a few clients online too  

2,433,903,849 points and 2493 units in 48 hours, insane...
Thanks for the good times everyone, take care

44 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Unfortunately, I have to sit this last one out because of travel, and having joined the Techpowerup folding team. I can change my team number back to EHW, I just won't be here for a week to change it back.

Oh man, you can make it work! We need to push it one last time

1 hour ago, Sir Beregond said:

I can, my wife can't 

 

Now if I had an office instead of this sitting in the bedroom, that would be different.

Just put it in the living room, I do that too

In Bastiaan_NL

On 17/09/2024 at 20:48, damric said:

hah I hope I didn't drive you away with all of my erroneous subs. hope to see you again!

 

Haha nah, it only strengthened my bond with the moderation team at HWBot because of all the chats we had about it
 

Thanks for the kind words guys.
It wasn't an easy decision but I need a new challenge to keep growing in this hobby. 

I found some great friends here some of which I've seen several times in person and I know we'll meet again soon. Thanks for the good times and

Ha, I actually had to search for some of the hardware.
Some of the competition stages are interesting, I look forward to see what we can do together

Hey everyone,

soon the 2024 HWBot Team Cup will start again.
If you feel like helping the EHW team with a few benchmarks and you haven't signed up already, make sure to DM me!
We can talk about what hardware we are still looking for and I can add you to the spreadsheet. 

Feel free to discuss the competition, rules and other related subjects here but know that the other teams are always lurking in the shadows

Always trying to get one of the stickers in the picture
 

Nice

Pretty happy with a PB for a foldathon!

All systems are finishing now, time to cool down..

2006 was before my time.
I started somewhere in 09 for OCN and had a bit less units for 2bil compared to 8bil for EHW.


Living at my parents place at the time, running bigadv units on i7's which was almost better than running gpu's (I still had 6 of them online).
I don't remember the actual PPD, I think a bigadv unit was somewhere over 100k points and took a little over a day.
@zodac was the one who dragged me into folding, good times. 
 

Also, 5 GPU's online atm:

(I even had to use a full system as a cooling tower for the bench as I stole the bench rad for the one on the pool table )

14 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

When I started folding for EHW about 3 years ago, @Bastiaan_NL was in first place and untouchable.  No one could come close to his PPD.  Once the electric prices significantly increased where he is, he slowed down and eventually stopped folding.  It took a while for me to catch him.

Why's he folding in this foldathon?  I pestered him and somehow convinced him that 2 days of folding wouldn't break the bank  

Good times!
I remember having 6 GPU's folding on the X299 Sage board and a few spread over different systems.
A lot of heat and a big powerbill, even with the lower electricity price at the time. 
But remember, always look at how many units someone folded and not only at the points. I can't compare with some of the OG's who had hardware online for 15 years. 
The current generation of hardware is just silly, 30mil points on a single GPU was what took us weeks back in '10..

Anyways, I gotta get some hardware together for another system as I need to beat @Avacado 

13 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Running a 4090 OC'ed in Linux, and a MSI 3060 Ventus on Win10 in my fiancees machine.

 

If you're running a 4090, 3090 and 3070ti you will do very well and beat me for sure.

 

By the way, what inspired you joining the foldathon? I've been doing them since January 2023 and never seen you in one. It's great that you're joining the cause and with a lot of punch.

Linux is king, but I'm just running on W10 (existing installs) for a quick FAT.

I'm not even sure how the conversation went, but @firedflymentioned the FAT so why not.

I slowed down my folding output two years ago and the last card folding was taken offline around 1.5 years ago. The power is too expensive

1 hour ago, neurotix said:

 

I know the pain of melting psu cables well too XD

 

Between you, Nbrock, Flux, and Avacado it will be a tough competition for me. But if you're running those cards you showed as well as a 4090 you'll be out of my league.

For now I have a 4090, 3090 and a 3070Ti online. The bottom card shown in the picture (2080Ti) is running like sh..., so sadly will be taken down.
 

2 hours ago, firedfly said:

Competition begins in a little over 9 hours.  With @Bastiaan_NLback for this competition, who will win?

Ha, at least not me. I'm putting together hardware as we speak

1 hour ago, LabRat said:

Countdown pulled up on secondary screen

Haven't been feeling well but, will be contributing AT LEAST my 7900GRE (power detuned).

Will have an MI25 or 2 going by end of day too (hopefully).

Get well soon

In Bastiaan_NL 

I'll try to drop a few work units, if I don't fry any cables between my PSU and the 4090 

If only I could get all my 20-40 gen cards to run in time....

Disclaimer: This was posted from my phone while being drunk and not in my native language

11 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Looks like you had a good time, bro. Cool stuff (pun intended).

Thanks Fox, it was a real good time!
And yeah, it's real cool stuff! I can't wait to start playing with LN2... For now -102°C is the most extreme I've done

A 'little' update:
Friday I received some dry ice again to run hardware subzero for fun, and for the Country Cup. 
As the first victim, we had the RX5700XT again for Unigine Superposition 1080P Extreme which was limited to RDNA 1.0. Why am I saying we? Because @server075 and @kaliz were on stream almost all the time, supporting me with all the info I needed, taking screenshots from the stream and keeping me motivated (all the way through the night). Thanks again boys, good times!
Lucky for me, the card was already in 'cold trim' and had some additional mods to help her do a little better. Sadly I didn't get my flexible heaters in time, which are needed instead of a normal heater because I moved a few capacitors to the back of the PCB to make clearance for the GPU pot. Anyways, here are some pictures and the result (one of them  )
 

I added more insulation to the back of the card to reduce the risk of it causing shorts. Up and running, testing Superposition:




And one of the screenshots from @server075:

 

Onto the next subject, an AMD 4300G. This one was the most fun we had, as it ran full pot (constant -76°C) for almost 5 hours until I decided to quit. The hardware itself was totally happy, besides the ASRock x570 Taichi being a bit weird with a lot of missing settings. The main reason for choosing this hardware is that this was a fitting CPU for another part of the Country Cup. 
The setup, figuring out some settings on the fly as it was a sort of last minute decision to switch and prep this board. 
 

Due to the mass of the pot, and the minimal dissipated heat from a cute 4 core CPU it would run just fine without any dry ice in the pot. It would only heat up about one degree with the benchmark running at any subzero temperature we tested, and because it was totally new to me we did steps of about 10 degrees. Starting at -20°C all the way to hours of full pot fun.


And this is what it looks like after many hours of benching:


For the final kilo's of dry ice I decided to ask @L0wPull if I could sacrifice the ASUS B650E-I Gaming Wifi motherboard that I bought from him for a prior competition with the 'guarantee' of him buying it back soon after.
He told me to go for it, but I would have to keep it... Why not?
The CPU for this one was an AMD 7700X and a kit of G.Skill A-Die, with some pretty good results!
 

Preparation of the hardware:
 

Cooled down:


After a few hours of fun:


I just love it how this MASSIVE Kingpin Trex Rev 3 makes the board almost dissapear. With the pretty GT1030 from Galax which @L0wPull found for me it's one of the funniest looking bench setups I had so far.
If you made it to this point, I thank you for your interest
Also thanks to all the guys who took the time to join the stream for a little entertainment, you know who you are. Love you all!