firedfly

5 minutes ago, ArchStanton said:

@firedfly  Out of curiosity, was the "Black Gaming" available?  I ask because numerous TechTubers were supplied with the $249 version of the card running the $330 VBIOS...

I signed up for an EVGA notify list earlier this week (yesterday?).  I only signed up for the more expensive card and received the notification for being able to purchase today.

1 hour ago, ArchStanton said:

The retail price if you don't mind my asking?

MSRP of $329.99 (+ tax and shipping) is what I paid.  I just realized I forgot to put in an associate code for a 3% discount 

Another notify came in...

I'll be returning my previous purchase of water cooling parts to Amazon.  I just place an order from ModMyMods and Performance-PCs for different parts.  Hopefully I did better this time!

I've had a few changes this month...

On 1/10/22, bought an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING, 12G-P5-3969-KR
On 1/12/22, bought an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING, 12G-P5-4877-KL
On 1/12/22, sold an EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING, 12G-P5-3967-KR that I had purchased on 9/15/21

12 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

@firedfly congrats with your 5 billion points milestone!

Thanks!  My ppd will be pretty low for a while.  Helping with the competition this week at [H].  I may stick around folding for them for a brief bit afterwards to hit a few point milestones for my old team before I transition back here...and to make sure @BWG doesn't have more points than me over there!

@pioneerisloud it looks like your ETF card might be down as well.  It's been a few days since you've completed work.

2 hours ago, Avacado said:

Did you buy the gimped 1/2 flow corsair D5 ? Where is @ciarlatanoto help here. (He loves ranting about Corsair rebranding)

 

It is possible.  I made a lot of my part decisions based on what I could get at Amazon or microcenter.  Amazon had a lot of Corsair parts available to ship quickly

14 hours ago, Cerberus said:

I ran into a small hiccup flashing bios, i might get it back on tomorrow.

Sounds good.  I somehow missed that other thread.  Thanks for the update.

@Cerberus is your ETF rig still running?  It doesn't look like you've posted points for a few days.

A bunch of water cooling parts.  Still need to get tubing, but I should be able to get that locally.

46 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Hard to beat Fired's response. What card did he get added?

BWG got a 3080ti a few days after they came out.  GPUs.txt needed to be updated before it would fold.

33 minutes ago, NBrock said:

Apparently my A2000 is too new. Won't fold. In Windows it just gets an error and says I can fold Beta GPUs for no points and sits with the slot disabled. Any of you guys run into this with a new card?

That can happen if GPUs.txt is missing or out dated.  However, if this is a new card, it may not be listed in GPUs.txt.  I would either post in the folding@home forums (https://foldingforum.org/) or ask on their discord (https://discord.gg/foldingathome).  I believe @BWG ran into this issue a few months ago with a newly released card and they had it fixed pretty quickly.

EDIT: If you decide to post on their forums, it looks like this is the correct sub-forum to post in: 

6 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Amazing. So day 1 these things are more than 3080 Tie MSRP. Man this market...

I think the equivalent 3080ti is $1420ish?  Either way, not too different in price.

3 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

 

So how much do one of these run these days? Assuming got it from the notify queue?

It was from the notify queue.  I wasn't expecting to get the notification this quickly!  1300 +tax and shipping.

I'm starting to feel like @BWG:

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-4877-KL

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

If we need it, I can swap a 580 back into that rig for the ETF.  I just figure the 2 cards are pretty equal, so I figured the 290x could do some decent work

I'm happy with the card you are using now.  I was just curious since I remembered you were using the 580 previously.

@pioneerisloud What card are you using in the ETF now?  It doesn't look like you are using the RX580 any more.

Welcome @Cerberus!  That gtx980 is doing pretty well in the etf!

Just got an EVGA notify for this.  Now I just need to buy the rest of the parts to setup a water cooling system...and figure out how to do that

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=12G-P5-3969-KR

A bottomless portafilter for our espresso machine.

https://cremacoffeeproducts.com/products/54mm-bottomless-portafilter?variant=32302615363719

On 30/11/2021 at 10:33, damric said:

Yeah you can fold 24 hours for me in the next foldathon. Seriously I didn't even know about this event but I won a prize

 

On a positive note, summer is finally over here so I haven't had to run my air conditioning more than a few days this month. It's been nice with the windows open so I will probably compete in the next foldathon for sure.

If you still want to use your free 3080ti folding time during the next foldathon, PM me your folding username and passkey (make sure it is a different passkey from the ETF) and make sure to sign up here: 

4 billion points and 13k work units!

IN firedfly