damric

1st place: firedfly 2nd place: Bastiaan_NL 3rd Place: PaperClip Prize Winners Please message @damric very soon to claim your prize. There are four $25 cash prizes, 256GB NVMe PCIE 3.0 drives, Samsung Ear buds, and even a stick of DDR4 SODIMM. It's easier to send the cash prizes to those overseas, so if you are in the USA, please pick a non-cash prize, send me your address, and I'll get it to you soon. @firedfly @Cerberus @tictoc @tenchimuyo93 @Supercrumpet @Storm-Chaser @thermotto @Fluxmaven @BWG @Patsy @mx500torid @Minotaurtoo Who folded as paperclip? I didn't see an "IN" for that one, and a few more on the score card. If I missed anyone, let me know. If you excluded yourself and change your mind and want a prize, also let me know ASAP. I'd like to have everyone's prize info by Friday so I can pack some padded envelopes and get things shipped Saturday.

It's fixed

Well she certainly won something. I'll put out the list of eligible prize winners tomorrow. We have enough prizes for everyone that typed IN, and didn't exclude themselves from prizing. Then we'll figure out who gets what and where it's going. Congratulations everyone.

BWG's wife. I think she has taken over all of the garage GPUs. Your points are looking pretty good yourself

Having a little hiccup with the stats system so I notified zodac. So the card isn't officially changed yet since it keeps timing out when I try and access Hacksword, but it's fine, just keep folding.

You're a wildcard on the team so you could switch to something else if you have it available. Let me know and I'll key it into the database.

I know he's super busy but I hope he can pop in for a few minutes and do a clean-up. At first I was like, wow our forum sure are folding our asses off!!! Then when I saw my own inflated score I knew something was not right.

I was just typing in discord about that. What the heck is going on with the score card?

Too late now you're stuck, so fold away good sir! I'm sure that 5950 will pop out a few units before the end.

I don't remember quite how I ended up with that. Birthday present maybe. I feel bad I've burned holes in it soldering lol.

Ok so Michele brought home a couple more goodies for giveaway prizes including these brand new Samsung ear buds. Apparently they are some OEM that originally came with a work tablet or something that did not get used. Anyways they look nice and are new, tamper-sealed, but no warranty and I'm not testing them before I ship them. Also that random stick of DDR4 SoDIMM. I have no way to test this, but supposedly one of the other techs did. Funny it was her last day at her contract IT job, and they were trying to bribe her to stay but she starts a much more lucrative Salary position with the city of Mobile, and it's like 5 minutes from our house so there's no way they could top that. We have an awesome turnout. Problem is I don't have quite enough prizes for everyone this month, but I'm trying to make that happen. As of right now we have FOUR $25 prizes coming from @ENTERPRISE, I got FIFTEEN 256GB PCIE 3.0 NVMe Drives, TWO pairs of Samsung earbuds, and a stick of DDR4. Hopefully it won't be an arm and a leg if something needs international shipping, but these will all be small padded envelopes so maybe it won't be that much We had a small hiccup with the folding stats for the first day, but it looks like it's fixed now, thank you @axipher

@axipher stats?

Which OS are you using? Looking at https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=34959https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=34959

So yeah I learned a new hobby in 2020 with the kids during the first few months of the Covid lockdowns. It happened by accident. We just happen to use reflective paracord to tie off our kayaks, and tube floats when we would go out on the river. Then one day my dog broke his cheap-store bought leash and I quick made him one out of some 550, no fancy weaving or anything since I needed it on the spot. It worked pretty well but I knew I could make a better one, so I researched a bit and found out there's a whole worldwide hobbyist community dedicated to creating random ordinary items and survival items out of paracord. I had to take a step back, because this looked really complicated what these people were doing in these youtube videos and all I wanted was a freaking dog leash that would not break. So I started out trying something simple, using some of my kayak paracord and made a bracelet using some video instructions that I had to watch in slow motion like 50 times until I got it right. Then everyone in the house either wanted one, or wanted to try making one. We quickly used up all of my tie-down cords and I needed some more. Then I discovered that they sell some really cool colors and designs online. They even sell buckles and accessories to create lots of custom designs for things I had never imagined. So, a $30 order there, a few months later a $50 order there, extended family and friends were wanting some of the things we were making. Then we really got busy around the 2020 election because we live near some real radical groups. That's when we discovered how to create the monkey fist, the most iconic paracord crafting item that is really a lethal medieval flail mace thing that fits in your pocket but could really slap someone's brains out. Yeah everyone wanted one of those, either loaded with glass marbles or steel ball bearings, crazy times. Then some girl at the counter of the the service station saw my car keys had a paracord key chain with a hidden knife buckle, ended up creating and selling her a few dozen because her whole family and extended family wanted them. Last month I made some nice "survival" bracelets for my friends before we went on our cabin trip in the mountains. These were really cool because they had a buckle with a clock, compass, knife, glass breaker, fire starter, and whistle all inside the little 1 inch buckle. Then finally last week I finished my dog leash...finally. It only took me 2 years but I finally remembered what I was going to do in the first place. Anyways, I have tons of different paracords and I want to make some basic survival bracelets for extremehw. I even have several red and black patterns to keep with the theme but I have some other really awesome ones. I have gotten so good at making them that it takes me less than 20 minutes and the cord is very cheap for me to buy so I was thinking I'm going to send some out as participation prizes for folding over the next few months. I'll post some photos and videos of my work this week. It's become a very relaxing hobby and self-rewarding when you can give stuff away thay you hand made yourself. TL:DR? I needed something to do while Michele is gaming

Need to summon of the ancients like @BWG @Avacado @tictoc @axipher @Supercrumpet @firedfly If no one can help, I'll see if I can remote into your PC tomorrow. I've never dealt with dual CPU boards so I could do as much harm as good but I really want it to work for you.

Close enough

Yeah man. For this competition I'm running CPUs as well as GPUs. In theory the F@H server will assign smaller WUs so they have a chance to complete them. I do leave a couple logical cores unassigned to help "feed" they other CPU cores and GPUs. You can change that in the advanced, edit, change the (-1) to whatever you want on each slot.

You aren't on one of our 24/7 Extreme Teams right? If not, you're good. If so, then yes, use a different key. If not, we need a couple spots filled if you are interested in folding 1 piece of hardware 24/7.

I have 16 drives on hand today. More than likely you'll get one. I'm hoping there's at least one to go around to everyone that wants one. But there may be extra, depends on turnout. Oops I miscounted. There's 15 drives, and apparently a random DDR4-2400 SoDIMM if someone needs that instead lol.

About 8 hours to go fellas. I have enough SSDs to give away to at least the top 10 or so.

Yeah you can customize your slots in the advanced view. A lot of folks that fold 24/7 don't bother with CPU folding since it's not that efficient, but if you have cores to spare it will earn some extra points and work units during our 48 hour foldathon. I've never had a board with two CPUs like that but it looks awesome. I found that it's good to leave a couple cores open to feed the working cores and GPUs. So like on my 8c/16t CPU I fold 6c/12t, otherwise I don't get good GPU utilization. Also it's good to tune for power efficiency instead of just balls to the wall clocks so you don't run up the light bill.

You can dive right in by downloading the client on whatever machines you plan to fold. Be sure to get a key with your folding username, and be sure to enter our team number 239902. But yeah the guides are good, though for me I had to ask a lot of questions as well, and I still do.

You sure you don't need any SSDs for folding rigs?

You need to cheat more effectively. You guys till in 3rd

I have some 256GB NVMe PCIE Gen 3 drives to give away. These are OEM drives that were too small so they got upgraded. But, I know they are useful for dedicated crunching machines that just need an OS and f@h so at least 3 drives will be awarded here every month until I have none left to give away. No warranty on these, and no M.2 screws, but they are new or barely used and I will test them before I mail them out.