Fluxmaven

Interesting combo. I briefly considered a 500 Abarth because they make all the right noises and were pretty cheap a couple years ago. Ended up with a Mazda6 wagon for the practicality. Now I have a Mustang for the daily. Miata is the weekend fun car, and a Grom for when I don't want to struggle to find parking.

Outside of storage servers, I don't use spinning rust for anything anymore. SSDs are faster and plenty reliable. I've had way more failures with HDDs over the years. I was an early adopter of SSDs too. First was a 32GB IDE lol. For many years I'd run a smaller SSD for a boot drive and a HDD for storage. Now I typically just load up the m.2 slots with fast NVMe drives. It obviously depends on what your actual needs are. If you need over 4TB of capacity, HDDs start making more sense.

I've been traveling a lot for work and haven't really been paying attention to the rigs. Looking through the logs, I see several of those 149** units that failed. In my case it didn't reboot the rig and it eventually pulled another but it's downtime on the 5070 Ti rig which is the highest PPD machine I have running right now so I'd obviously like for it to not get hung up.

Yes, you actually need to fold next time. The 6950XT was originally purchased so I had a modern AMD card for reviews... Back when I thought I'd be doing more of those. Sat on the shelf most of the time I've owned it. Still a good card and I'll find something to do with it. The 5070 Ti just fits my needs better for that system.

I'd love to pretend that they're at least binned higher, but I'm sure it's just a plain Jane 9070XT with twice the VRAM for twice the price.

@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.

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.

Lol just popped in to see when it started... It already has. So I'm firing some stuff up. I really meant to build another rackmount rig to toss in the basement that I could just leave folding all the time but I've been out of town for work constantly. If I toss a card on the test bench, I have an excuse to relax this weekend and not bench for team cup

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.

I'll obviously be folding... How crazy depends on if we get a cool weekend.

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.

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...

Thanks for turning things up a bit. There was a brief time when I thought I might be able to stay ahead but checked again and you were blowing my doors off. Hitting finish on most of the rigs since we're about at the end of the foldathon. I'd love to fold hard 24/7 but can't justify fighting the AC. Electric bill was just over $800 last month and will be the same or worse this month. I'm going to keep my 3090 FTW3 a bit longer since it's still under extended warranty. The 3090 Kinpin is the only 30 series card I will end up keeping long term since it has some sentimental value due to some custom modifications a friend did. All the rest I'd happily replace with more efficient cards... Need to take care of a few other things before dropping money on higher end cards though.

79.5 degrees in the office currently. SO much better than when I run the 30 series cards. My most recent GPU purchases are the 5060 TI 16GB and a 4070. I haven't finalized what build the 4070 will actually live in, yet so it's just on the test bench for the foldathon. Both of these GPUs are pretty even in PPD doing a bit over 8m currently. The 5060 TI is doing it at 90-112w power draw. The 4070 is averaging around 180w. Both undervolted. I just got the 4070 so haven't dug as deep on the undervolt on that card but should be able to whittle it down further. This is huge because the 3090s uncorked only do a couple million more PPD at 3-4x the power draw. They also lose more PPD with a significant undervolt. The 5060 Ti seemingly just cut it's power draw in half from stock with almost no PPD loss at all. I absolutely get the hate for the new Nvidia cards. They are overpriced and raw performance uplift from gen to gen isn't high. The efficiency gains are awesome though. For the average gamer with one GPU living in moms basement, I'd just get a used 3080 or an AMD card. For distributed computing running a bunch of cards, the lower power draw is a godsend.

Yea I was hoping for a cool week to be able to fire up more cards. I live in a big old house so it's a battle to keep it bearable inside this time of year without adding the heat load of a bunch of GPUs. Still going to suffer a bit for the cause

Howdy, Team Cup 2025 is already underway. In the past couple years, EHW made a really strong showing for being such a small team. If anyone has a bunch of random hardware laying around and some spare time, head on over and make some submissions. I'm not planning on buying much if anything this year, but I'll try and get a sub in with everything I have that fits any of the categories.

How old is your PSU? Which Leadex do you have? Super Flower makes really good PSUs. If yours is getting up there in years, might be worth it for peace of mind to upgrade. Leadex VII XP 1200W is a great option that gets you the new connector and a little bit more wattage. They also have the Leadex VII XG 1300W that sometimes goes on sale a bit cheaper. I've had one on my test bench for over a year now with great results. The adapter works fine, just doesn't look as nice as a dedicated cable.

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.

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

Glad to have you. I just like stirring the pot. I can't fold 24/7 on all the systems since they have other uses, but it's fun to do crazy PPD for a couple days. Moreso in the winter though

Hotter than a hoochie coochie over here but I'll still fire up a bit more than what I've been running lately. If anyone is trying to catch these hands, I can always turn the house into an oven and get some big numbers on the board. Not willing to sweat alone though. I need some competition.