ExtremeHW February 72 hour Folding Challenge February 18-20th 00:00 UTC

[Fluxmaven]

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

That sucks. My office rig also died too. 1st world problems

Yea it will be rough having to use one of the other half dozen custom loop PCs when I take it down to clean it

 

What's wrong with yours? 

[Avacado]

1 hour ago, Fluxmaven said:

Yea it will be rough having to use one of the other half dozen custom loop PCs when I take it down to clean it

 

What's wrong with yours? 

Could be CPU,GPU,PSU,SSD's or a corrupt windows install. So it's getting completely replaced.

 

[damric]

1 minute ago, Avacado said:

Could be CPU,GPU,PSU,SSD's or a corrupt windows install. So it's getting completely replaced.

 

I had the WMI get corrupted on both my #2 and #3 folding benches. I blame a bad windows update. I'm trying to get Michele's ETF rig back up now with Linux Mint, but I'm lost on how to set it up right so I'm about to flush it and try Windows 10 or 11.

[Cerberus]

 

[Fluxmaven]

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

Could be CPU,GPU,PSU,SSD's or a corrupt windows install. So it's getting completely replaced.

 

Lol why troubleshoot when you have an excuse to build a new rig 

 

The EFI partition of the Sim rig boot drive got screwed up but I was able to reformat and rebuild the partition... Of course I found this out after I pulled the drive out of the PC thinking it was dead. Which involved holding the waterblocked GPU out of the way while pulling the heatsink... Which is why I still use soft tube 90% of the time 

 

Back on the topic of the foldathon... I just got home and walked into the office to a sweltering 31c. I had both windows cracked open with a fan drawing air in but it ended up being warm out today. I went ahead and started hitting finish on all the rigs. 

[damric]

12 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

Lol why troubleshoot when you have an excuse to build a new rig 

 

The EFI partition of the Sim rig boot drive got screwed up but I was able to reformat and rebuild the partition... Of course I found this out after I pulled the drive out of the PC thinking it was dead. Which involved holding the waterblocked GPU out of the way while pulling the heatsink... Which is why I still use soft tube 90% of the time 

 

Back on the topic of the foldathon... I just got home and walked into the office to a sweltering 31c. I had both windows cracked open with a fan drawing air in but it ended up being warm out today. I went ahead and started hitting finish on all the rigs. 

Dude we had to put our AC on today. It's ridiculously warm outside. I went mountain biking wearing hardly anything today. It should not be this warm until May, but it is.

[Fluxmaven]

8 minutes ago, damric said:

I went mountain biking wearing hardly anything today

Calm down, it's a bit early for XXXtremeHW

[damric]

Congratulations @firedfly for the win, and congrats TEAM 239902 for the massive amount of points and work units over the last 72 hours. We laid the beat-down on team reddit.

 

My random prize drawings for the folding benches:

 

@Fluxmaven

@Cerberus

@CharliesTheMan

 

P.M. me your shipping addresses.

 

@bonami2 and @neurotix pick your winners and post them here so they can claim prizes.

 

Next month is the ANNUAL 96-hour, then after that we go back to 48-hour monthlies in April.

[neurotix]

Getting prizes ready now.

[neurotix]

Alright, I've got winners.

 

Logitech Headset- keeph8n
$50 paypal- Cerberus
$50 paypal- Q_Cruncher

 

keeph8n I need you to pm me your address to claim the headset

 

Cerberus and Q_Cruncher need to provide me their emails/PayPal to claim the $50 PayPal gift cards.

 

Thanks guys and great foldathon. I did 88m which is more than I thought I would without 18601 units, last month I did 92m.

 

@keeph8n@Cerberus@ dunno who Q_Cruncher is.

[damric]

7 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Alright, I've got winners.

 

Logitech Headset- keeph8n
$50 paypal- Cerberus
$50 paypal- Q_Cruncher

 

keeph8n I need you to pm me your address to claim the headset

 

Cerberus and Q_Cruncher need to provide me their emails/PayPal to claim the $50 PayPal gift cards.

 

Thanks guys and great foldathon. I did 88m which is more than I thought I would without 18601 units, last month I did 92m.

 

@keeph8n@Cerberus@ dunno who Q_Cruncher is.

I think Q-cruncher is @tictoc ?

Edited February 21, 2023 by damric

[firedfly]

1 minute ago, damric said:

I think Q-cruncher is @Supercrumpet

Q-cruncher is @tictoc.

 

@Supercrumpet is cptasian.

[Fluxmaven]

Good job everybody! Glad we were able to slide past Reddit. I wonder if I ask really nicely if Zotac will let me keep the 4070ti for the 96 hour next month 

 

[damric]

1 minute ago, Fluxmaven said:

Good job everybody! Glad we were able to slide past Reddit. I wonder if I ask really nicely if Zotac will let me keep the 4070ti for the 96 hour next month 

 

lol did they seriously want it back?

[Fluxmaven]

Just now, damric said:

lol did they seriously want it back?

Yea it's just a review sample that I have to return. Came with a shipping label to send it back. From the looks of the seals on the box, I wasn't even the first person to play with it. 

[damric]

1 minute ago, Fluxmaven said:

Yea it's just a review sample that I have to return. Came with a shipping label to send it back. From the looks of the seals on the box, I wasn't even the first person to play with it. 

Yeah sometimes they make you give it back. Been lucky I got to keep most of my samples over the years.

[neurotix]

Alright just need tictoc to pm me their email so we can send them $50 and ship the headphones to keeph8n and I'm done

@tictoc

Edited February 21, 2023 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Alright so tictoc generously decided to pass his $50 gift card to Cerberus to support the community folding farm, and keeph8n's headphones are shipped and should arrive Thursday. Seems like I'm done with prizes. Great foldathon everybody, we all put up a ton of points. Enjoy the prizes guys

[Fluxmaven]

@damric

Frame showed up today! Will be helpful when swapping between setups since my test bench is constantly a mess lol. It's conveniently the perfect size to toss on a rack shelf as well 

 

Thanks again! 

[damric]

47 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

@damric

Frame showed up today! Will be helpful when swapping between setups since my test bench is constantly a mess lol. It's conveniently the perfect size to toss on a rack shelf as well 

 

Thanks again! 

And you got it assembled with no instructions! Nice work!

[neurotix]

That GTX 260 looks dope.