Minotaurtoo

Love that area of NC... I used to go to Graveyard Fields near there to hike and escape the heat in the valley on hot days. Spent a many days at Looking Glass Falls too, well until it got to crowded by tourists anyway. Alas, I had to move out in the late 90's though... still wouldn't mind coming back though, but I'm a bit too settled in here now.

got a recent free upgrade... forgot to post it... but they made some recent package upgrades around here and upped ours to the 500Mbps

I suppose this isn't too bad considering it's quick dirty run and on my summer settings... lowered voltage and more limited power on both cpu and gpu... might try out my winter tune later on.

My recent purchase was some thin wall telescoping aluminum tubing... sounds boring right? Background: Recently, as some of you may know, storms destroyed my old OTA antennas and bent my tower... I bought a temporary antenna, that ended up being permanent thanks partially to improvements in broadcast quality in my area, but mostly due to it works and I don't have a grand to invest at the moment. There was one snag... a big snag... One channel broadcasts on VHF now, VHF LO at that... very few decent sized antennas can receive VHF LO, but to make it worse, this channel is on channel 2 (54-60mhz)... Lovely... Yesterday, I solved my problem by making my own VHF LO dipole antenna and attaching it to the vhf hi dipole that came with the GE Pro. Since there are no vhf hi stations in my area I wasn't worried about interfering with vhf hi reception. Purchased tubing to perform mod: linky signal quality before the mod was 0% after the mod it is 91% GE antenna used: Linky For the record, The GE pro antenna in the pic is a lot better than I thought it would be for the price, on UHF anyway. I live 60 miles out from my UHF stations and I have great signal with this, not much less than I had on the tower even.... I was planning on going with the best of the best which would be either the channel master 4228HD or 91XG, but this thing really impressed me at the price and it is super easy to perform mods on.

well shoot... I missed this one big time... last few hours here, but I'm going to jump in for a bit... temps down a bit outside so AC should be able to keep up.

Sooo... apparantly I started collecting matches. It started out innocent enough, just trying to get a few old school matches that actually strike anywhere. Mostly nostalgia, but a bit of actual functional use built in too. I posted that I was looking for some old matches... and well... this happened. This isn't the whole collection, just the best looking. Some of these I bought, some were given to me... not complaining, I've learned a lot about the history of matches thanks this little experience... like how matches used to be highly poisonous and sometime back red phosphorus was used instead of white to make them safer. One of my favorite brands as a kid for starting camp fires was Fire Chief, mostly because of how easy it was to make them waterproof and not effect the ease of striking them. Still to this day, one particular make of the Fire Chief matches is the only one I can strike with my thumbnail (ignore my damaged nail, accident years ago). VID_20221227_195828424.mp4

I'm a bit lax with mine... the important stuff, like family movies, are saved to the cloud and on a flash drive on my key chain as well as being on 3 different PC's in the house. The DVD rips, music and other replaceable stuff, I have on a 12TB drive in my main PC with a backup on my wifes HTPC. Most of my stuff is just recorded off air though, so no big loss.

ok.. this is a bit sappy, but I want to thank all the folders on here, even those who only do it when it's convenient, you never know what work unit might be the one to make a breakthrough. My wife's had cancer (she's recovered fully) and she has had many other issues. My dad, uncle and some of my cousins have Alzheimer's. The research being done here is important to me. I have missed a lot of folding time this year due to a few calamities in my life (storm damage, medical insurance/doctor changes, medical issues, shift changes and more). I'm glad to be back and until it's too hot, I'll be folding off and on. It's heartwarming to see that while I was gone, there were so many continuing the efforts. Thanks to all.

In as Minotaurtoo

I'm riding the 5700x train here. Then I'd ride that system out till I had to upgrade because the next upgrade would require a whole new system since it's not likely a higher core 5000 series would benefit you much.

I'm a rebel, I install mine..... horizontally ....

appreciate it.

thanks, lots been going on in my life lately. Health care changes, shift changes at work, and still waiting on the results of a biopsy on my wife.. Hopefully things will get back to some resemblance of normal soon.

finally smart bulbing my house....

to EHW

or roads LOL couldn't even hit a tree there

that looks familiar, by any chance was that on the blue ridge parkway?

definitely weather helped me out... will probably leave it folding again tonight just for the extra "free" heat... that and my uncle has Alzheimer's... as well as my Dad... and there is some research for that going on here.

thanks to my early start, I finished my first unit about 14 mins after the competition began, allowing for delay in accounting, it should have showed up about 40 mins into the comp.

yes 28 threads, I limit it to 28 so there is enough cpu left to allow me to use my pc normally and to keep the gpu fed. I remember a time when loading a cpu up like this would cause a pc to grind to a halt, but with better OS's and fancy hardware it runs as normal, with no lag, almost like it's not even working hard.

well, I doubt I'll catch you. I only have one 6900xt and one 5950x folding... kinda surprised me how many ppd that 5950x can put out with only 14 cores going... I do have PBO on, and turned lose... last I looked the cpu was pulling 170w and sitting at 65C on the hottest sensor... kinda wonder how a 7000 series cpu does now.

thanks for the well wishes! Same to you, so far so good on mine, I started early for the heat. temps well within normal, no melting connectors detected and room temp, comfy, which is great since it's freezing cold outside.

testing the latest drivers for AMD... no added performance from what I can see, but still pushing an estimated 4 million points per day so at least no regression. It's cold here and I'm already folding for heat LOL.

in as minotaurtoo Hope the weather turns cool, the last one it was still too warm.

way better than bedpan humor