Sir Beregond

I was wondering what was going on with the [H] website. 

Thanks for posting here.

Just now, damric said:

What makes a WU expire? Could be a few things, like maybe you shut it down before it finished then forgot. It could be that something was unstable like a bad overclock and it decided to abandon the WU. There's also simply some bad work units (my opinion).

 

In the advanced viewer, click the logs and check the box that says warnings and errors. That might tell you something.

 

But yeah remember this is 7 days, really a very harsh endurance run. Definitely not a sprint. So adjust your clocks to make sure they are 100% stable. If you are concerned about power or heat, try tuning for efficiency. The big GPUs can run like 80-85% clock speed and still churn out the work units while consuming half the power.

Ah probably bad work units then as the card is currently running stock and I was not home most of the day, so didn't cancel anything. I'll tick that setting, thanks.

6 minutes ago, damric said:

@Sir Beregond the 10 is minumum total on a new user/key combination to start getting the qrb. No worries if you haven't got 10 yet, you'll get there in probably less than 24 hours then your points will be huge after that. Just keep folding as much as you can.

Ah ok, cool. I've passed that then and confirmed getting bonus now with that link you provided.

It mentioned 2 expired WU's. What makes a WU expire?

I'm finishing up another WU now and then will have to shut it down for the night and will resume tomorrow. Gotta say, this is fun. Hope to get a place where I can eventually get a basement or something I can setup to just run all the time.

21 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

I might be able to beat a single 3080Ti with all these rigs!  

Har har

Seriously though, I hope you do!

14 minutes ago, damric said:

You need a minimum of 10 WU completed and over 80% not failed.

Is that total, or each time you start up?

2 hours ago, neurotix said:

Also @Sir Beregondwe need all the points we can get. Any way you could set that bedroom rig with a 3080ti to just fold during the day when no one's in the room, then pause it overnight?

 

Protip: leave the door to the room open and it won't turn into a bakery. Believe it or not, a humble 3060 I have turns the room it's in into an oven with the door shut, but with the door open it's not hot at all.

I will do when I can. Yeah I have door open and window popped open. Still hotboxes like crap. My condo isn't your house. 

I started up the 3080 Ti 2 hours ago since I left the house and won't be back in another 3-4 hours, so will see how that goes. 

This is also my daily use rig so won't be folding when I am using it in the evening before bed. I will do what I can though when I can. Better than nothing.

43 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

two CPU's one board. =( 

I see what you did there.

15 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

Looks like the 4080 Super is the real deal then, if pricing is low enough. 

Heh! 

Well its basically a $999 4080. With 5% more cores, I wouldn't expect it to be much different.

46 minutes ago, damric said:

Reminder, we're about 16 hours until start. Get those folding rigs started so you can iron out any last minute issues!

Do I need to setup anything other than making sure I am representing Team 239902?

19 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

I can't help it... 

 

 

Also, wasn't this the 4080 12gb or is that the original 4070 Ti? I'm getting confused with all of their naming shenanigans. 

 

At least the 4070 Super seems like a good product and ultimately, the 4080 is finally getting a price cut. But it's too little, too late IMO. Hope they correct their product line with the Blackwell series after trying to take advantage of gamers.  

4070 Ti was the full AD104 die and was originally slated to be the "4080 12GB".

4070 Super was definitely a good uplift, but I still don't like the $600 price.

What a joke. Guess only thing going for it is 16GB and if you care about RT, that aspect will outperform a 7900 XT. Otherwise 7900 XT looks like the better card to get for raster and 20GB.

Honestly would have expected it to close the gap on the 4080 better than it did, but guess not. So far the Super series refresh is wholly underwhelming. Hope sales continue to slump.

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

Unless you've already fixed it, its in line correctly for me.  Maybe it has something to do with the table width?

 

 

By the way, the change looks pretty good so far.  I do appreciate the "OP" and "Last poster" names being right up front like that.  Very nice addition there.

Still looks the other way to me. Could maybe be table width when viewing on my laptop?

2 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Update has now been released!

Looks good. One thing I noticed is threads with "solved" icon look like this. Not sure if you wanted it above the thread title, or in-line?

15 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

So are you actually going to fold this time? 

I can try here and there, but I can't run all the time like you guys so don't expect much in the point department sadly.

so....

in - SirB

Personally never even heard of that forum before. 

Oh, more interforum competition, I like it!

28 minutes ago, SoloCamo said:

 

Similar format is still listed on the store unless you just meant it was one time run until they sell out -

 

The store has its own, yes, which are the ones you screenshot. Fluxmaven did his own run of stickers for one of the folding contests a while back before the merch store was a thing. Used them for prizes and such.

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I don't do crypto at all.

 

I only do tech stocks

Yeah I am in this same boat after selling mine off. Crypto is too volatile and I don't really believe in it's premise anymore like I maybe once did a long time ago. Money is always centralized somewhere.

Oh trust me, tech stocks are part of my investment portfolios. Things have been doing very well lately. My 401k is the same way. I choose all the funds that I want as part of its portfolio and on the stock side of things, I'm definitely in all those as well.

If I were to just buy individual company stocks again, I definitely agree that Microsoft, AMD, and Nvidia make a ton of sense similar to how Amazon and Apple have been in the past.

52 minutes ago, GanjaSMK said:

 

No doubt the short wave began a year ago, the medium wave is incoming. 

But, will it be like the dot-com boom though? Huge 4 year span of insane bubbling or will it inevitably change the world in greater ways, let alone the market pricing possible and bubbles aside? 

 

It's anyone's prediction for quote-on-quote AGI; it's clear it will come eventually. I suppose someone in an inner circle somewhere has a more definite estimation. 

 

I reference many opinions citing the fad tendency in new technologies, but it seems awful naive to bury your head in the sand at this point. 

While there certainly can and probably will be a bubble of sort as eventually everyone and their mother getting into AI has to find a breaking point somewhere at which point the serious guys that can do anything with it, will continue to do so, meanwhile the rest will probably somewhat be like the dot com bubble and crypto/blockchain, but like those...hasn't gone away. Obviously we all still use the internet, and crypto hasn't gone anywhere. For better or worse, AI is here to stay.

13 hours ago, Snakecharmed said:

 

Sad but true. I only got into stocks in 2017. Crypto never really entered my consciousness until later, and even then, I never took it that seriously.

 

 

My peak balance was $110, and my initial deposit was something like $20 into BTC just to use as a wallet. I can't be upset though. I got in really late and all my tech stocks fared about the same or better over the same time period through the present day without as much volatility.

Yeah I got into crypto in 2017 with about $1200 total and sold it off in 2021 for about $5500. But that was my only foray into it. Forgot what the taxes were on that, but wasn't bad.

Stocks at this point I have a few but not much. Most of my investments are in other avenues as opposed to individual stocks.

13 minutes ago, Snakecharmed said:

I remember when AMD was $6 a share. By the time I found some investing guts, people were saying AMD had peaked back when it reached the 30s, so I decided to go with NVDA instead. I did hold AMD briefly for a short term, but I didn't know what I was doing with it back then. On the other hand, I've had NVDA on two separate occasions but I most recently bought back into it for the long haul in 2020.

 

My cost basis on NVDA is $73.05. It closed at $594.91 today for an unrealized gain of 714.4%.

 

My problem, if you can call it that, is that it's 22.7% of my brokerage portfolio now. I'd be stupid to take money out of there, so it's more challenging to backfill other stocks to balance out the portfolio better. I'm already too deeply invested in semiconductor stocks and ETFs (33.8%) to increase my holdings in this sector.

 

Nonetheless, I still refuse to buy an RTX 40 series card.

Yeah I didn't really know how to buy or mine Bitcoin in 2009, 2010, and I didn't really know how to buy stocks in 2012. 

Things I regret to this day.

42 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

But that's also why I feel like these AI generated frames really aren't that great anyway.  I'm always pro raster camp, get the fastest GPU you can afford and power through it.  I didn't buy a 7900XTX for the framegen, I bought it because it was the fastest card I could afford, that would push my resolution.

Makes sense. As far as raster goes, you basically on average have the 2nd fastest gaming card in the world. Its faster than the more expensive 4080 for raster.

Makes sense and telling they didn't drop to $699. It's telling on Nvidia's end that there probably won't be a lot of MSRP models 4070 Supers so that $599 will probably be more like $650, and same for the 4070 Ti Super at $799, bet it will be more like $849. So AMD clearly thinks $749 is sufficient and all the naysayers online in places like Reddit saying they needed deep cuts, probably not true. AMD doesn't seem overly worried and this is just more or less confirming street pricing of the 7900 XT as the new MSRP.

Soon...

That's interesting, but it brings up another thought I had. Maybe we should just be moving away from ATX standard. Take a look at how a regular ATX orients DIMMS against natural airflow where some one off motherboards like EVGA Dark and Classified series rotated the socket and DIMMS to a better orientation for airflow. And of course you have other standards like BTX that just never took off.

I think it would be interesting to see ATX evolve finally as we have moved towards things like m.2 drives, single GPUs, and now looking at how memory can evolve on desktop. Maybe there's a better way to do things than ATX form factor and motherboard layout.

4 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

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I'm a big fan of mint tea. How is that one?

4 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

Jokes on you! 

 

Pentium 5 was released the same year they invented time travel. Realized it was too powerful for this timeline. 

 

Went back in time and put the chips on the voyager ships. Interstellar space now. And to think, some dumb alien is gonna get the Pentium 5 in their hands. 

 

All that power. What a waste. Stupid aliens. 

God, no wonder Voyager comes back as V'Ger in the 23rd century.