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Prize for MOST WORK UNITS completed during challenge. Sorry USA only unless you want to pay for shipping. Board is just a couple months old. Was in my main rig and I just upgraded. Has a chonker VRM and tons of USB and great audio. Ideal for a streamer or studio work.

4 hours ago, Supercrumpet said:

Funny timing, I've just happened to return to the fold as well.

 

Been folding on and off for the past year, but I started making a more concentrated effort yesterday. Running multiple rigs, but I'll have to see how the heat goes and will probably have to back things off for 24/7 operations, even in the winter.

 

What's the general feel on folding on CPUs these days? Is there a temp target to shoot for? I have a 9800X3D that might be decent, but it hovers around 90-92C on a 280mm AIO.

 

Great to be back nonetheless, happy to still see activity here.

There were some serious server issues at folding@home this year. I stopped posting the monthly foldathons because of it. I assume they are back on track so if we have a descent turnout for the [H] competition I'll resume those.

On 10/12/2025 at 14:07, Fluxmaven said:

I've been steadily working on rigs getting the PPD up for this event.

 

The dilemma now being which team to fold under. Since EHW was dying last year, I folded for [H]. 

 

CoolGTX just slipped by me the other day, so I'll probably fold for EHW until I retake the #5 spot on our team then switch to [H] for a little bit. 

 

If by some miracle y'all decide to really kick it in gear and we have a chance to place anything other than dead last, I'll throw everything I can at it.

 

I'll actively promote it on the Azalea City discord and see if we can get a few guests to join.

Week long team challenge. If you can turn on extra machines for team 239902, do so during the last week of January.

No need to join [H]ardForum, but you are welcomed to do so for trash talk purposes.

When: The event will be Jan 24 10AM PST - 31st 10AM PST

https://hardforum.com/threads/2026-7th-annual-folding-challenge-jan-25-31-2026.2045313/

I'm going to see what prizes I can put up for EHW, so stay tuned for that.

There is more evidence of the rumored refresh of the 9000 series SKUs. I read about a 9800X3D with higher clocks, and 9950X3D with 3D cache on both chiplets.

This could mean a price cut for existing SKUs soon. I'm also watching the 9800X3D price but I am very patient.

I was reading all of this on the official folding@home forum. They seem to be aware of the problems, but haven't figured out the cause. 

Is it still hanging up for everyone?

1 hour ago, Fluxmaven said:

More qualified than I am to be team lead right there.

41% of the TPU ppd is former folders from EHW that never made it back after the transition. Another huge chunk is one former EVGA folder. We have always been on good terms with both of those teams.

45 minutes ago, pio said:

I would love to pitch in and help, but I'm terrified of this stupid 12VHPWR cable lol.  I don't have the money to replace my card if it fries.

I can fire up some other cards here soon though, like in a few weeks.

Run with lower power limits. It's what I have to do or the house will burn down. I normally fold at 80% GPU clock.

Actually. I cranked it up a bit higher just now. 95% GPU clock speed and CPU limited to 75C on 20 cores. My water temp sensor * itself so I'm flying blind. I was going to replace that this week but I reckon I can wait a few days.

I'm working on firing something up

EVENT START

How to participate:

During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902

Stats: You can view the stats for the foldathon here: https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com

Mind the EVENT START TIMER as it is UTC time zone.

Folding is stressful on hardware, and will often break an overclock unless it's been tested with folding. I do not recommend overclocking high end GPUs as the power draw can be extreme while folding. If anything, try tuning for energy efficiency. Casualties happen and EXTREMEHW can not be held accountable if you destroy your hardware while folding. 

Link to V8.4 Client

Thank you for your participation!

10 hours ago, bonami2 said:

Did that the other days with my router.

 

Left it dry for a days and it still worked for some reason

Got it all back together and it seems to be working so I fired up F@H 

58 minutes ago, bonami2 said:

No worry we fold when we can! 

Right now I'm playing that game, you know, the one where you see how much coolant you can spill on your most expensive * and see if it still works the next day.

I'm there with you in spirit. My rigs are torn apart and been trying to get one up in time for this but it's a no go

14 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

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

Been lucky the last couple weeks have been lower temps although near constant rain. Like only high 90-95F though still 75-85F lows. Had a break in the rain yesterday so I took the dingos to swim in the creek and the water actually felt cool around 75F so that was really nice...as I'm watching for gators.

EVENT START

How to participate:

During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902

Stats: You can view the stats for the foldathon here: https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com

Mind the EVENT START TIMER as it is UTC time zone.

Folding is stressful on hardware, and will often break an overclock unless it's been tested with folding. I do not recommend overclocking high end GPUs as the power draw can be extreme while folding. If anything, try tuning for energy efficiency. Casualties happen and EXTREMEHW can not be held accountable if you destroy your hardware while folding. 

Link to V8.4 Client

Thank you for your participation!

Been looking at that B850 ASrock mini-itx

I have the HDV/m.2, which is fine for benching, but it really sucks ass when I put it in my main rig. The onboard sound is especially terrible. 

Yeah modern motherboard choices suck

actually descent PPD at 80% clock speed on the RX 6900XT. The Ryzen 9 9900X is in ECO mode 65W

Not a lot of points, but it's not heating up the office:

Bump

EVENT START

How to participate:

During the competition you must be folding for Team 239902

Stats: You can view the stats for the foldathon here: https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com

Mind the EVENT START TIMER as it is UTC time zone.

Folding is stressful on hardware, and will often break an overclock unless it's been tested with folding. I do not recommend overclocking high end GPUs as the power draw can be extreme while folding. If anything, try tuning for energy efficiency. Casualties happen and EXTREMEHW can not be held accountable if you destroy your hardware while folding. 

Link to V8.4 Client

Thank you for your participation!

Bump

8 hours ago, pio said:

I'm not sure if I'll be in or not due to heat production.  

yep it's miserable here and blasting the air conditioning. At best I can probably run a couple cards at like half power.

Fixed the EVENT START BUTTON

Well it looks like my event start button didn't save right. I'll have to redo that when I get a minute, but you all know it starts midnight UTC.