EXTREMEHW First Annual 96 Hour Folding Challenge, March 17th-20th 00:00 UTC

[firedfly]

37 minutes ago, Alex said:

Nice! Didn't realise how much more powerful hardware has gotten for folding, was surprised how my 'ancient' 1080 TI felt buried haha.

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

[Avacado]

8 hours ago, xxAMFxx said:

IN xxAMFxx

Sorry brother, the competition has ended. Please join us next month!

[Avacado]

20 minutes ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

Very accurate. My 3090 KPE was averaging 8.5 million PPD. 

[HaRdLy007]

Great work everyone! Thank you for the invite, it was a lot of fun!

 

I can't believe that I actually won something!

[Cerberus]

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

Damn, that's a lot of point at the end of this. @firedflyalone got over 3/4 of a billion points in just 4 days. It really shows how far things have come in the last 10 years. Back in 2013, you'd basically need a super computer to get that many in such a short amount of time. Now you can do that with a few off the shelf GPUs.

 

Also congrats to all of the prize winnter!

I thought about that myself, I was 'helping' on the F@H discord and it triggered some flashbacks of running 4-8 instances of SMP folding on windows xp. Just command prompt windows open and my parents wondering why my room was 90f

Edited March 21, 2023 by Cerberus

[Avacado]

Reminder to all prize winners, you have 72 hours (03/23/23 2000  EST) to PM me your name and address if you have won a CoolerMaster, be quiet or Corsair prize. If you won an EVGA prize, you have 72 hours to contact Damric with the same information. If we do not have your information by that time, your prizes will be re-drawn to the remaining pool of folders who met the criteria for a prize. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Avacado

[ENTERPRISE]

A huge well done to all that participated. It was also nice to see some fresh faces join us for the competition!, we certainly hope you stick around with us   We generated a phenomenal amount of points, much more than I would have expected. 

 

To commemorate everyone's participation, you will soon have the below user award appended to your account

 

 

I hope all the winners enjoy their well deserved prizes.  A huge thanks to our sponsors EVGA, Cooler Master, Corsair & be quite!

 

All the best,

E

[Cerberus]

30 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

A huge well done to all that participated. It was also nice to see some fresh faces join us for the competition!, we certainly hope you stick around with us   We generated a phenomenal amount of points, much more than I would have expected. 

 

To commemorate everyone's participation, you will soon have the below user award appended to your account

 

 

I hope all the winners enjoy their well deserved prizes.  A huge thanks to our sponsors EVGA, Cooler Master, Corsair & be quite!

 

All the best,

E

i love me some forum badges!

[tanner2]

Thanks for the contest, brought back good memories. 

[Dagamus_NM]

3 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

I am in shock how powerful the 4090 is in folding. A pair of 3090Tis and 4 Titan XPs couldn't outperform a single 4090. Lol.

[Supercrumpet]

Congrats to all of the winners, and thanks to the sponsors and everyone that helped organize such a huge event for a relatively new community! Amazing stuff.

[neurotix]

 

Thanks to the sponsors, I won the Cooler Master keyboard which was the prize I wanted most!

 

Also thanks to damric and Avacado for organizing the event!

[damric]

Are any more of the winners having difficulty sending messages to me or @Avacado?

 

If so, let us know.

[Sir Beregond]

Nice job EHW! You really knocked this out of the park.

 

5 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

See this is why I am content to see what the next series brings. Maybe by then I can join you guys folding. Just don't have a spot to run a rig continually right now. Not with these space heaters anyway. 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Sir Beregond

[ENTERPRISE]

New users who are trying to PM shipping information, im aware you are having trouble and looking into it. 

[Alex]

6 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

 I remember when 1mil ppd per GPU was insane  

 

 

[Torell]

2 hours ago, damric said:

Are any more of the winners having difficulty sending messages to me or @Avacado?

 

If so, let us know.

I sent @Avacado a message I am not sure if they received it.  

[damric]

11 minutes ago, Torell said:

I sent @Avacado a message I am not sure if they received it.  

He's busy at work. He will get to it this evening. We both have access to the same spreadsheet so I can see when he puts in your info.

 

Edit: He already entered it

Edited March 21, 2023 by damric

[tenchimuyo93]

7 hours ago, Cerberus said:

I thought about that myself, I was 'helping' on the F@H discord and it triggered some flashbacks of running 4-8 instances of SMP folding on windows xp. Just command prompt windows open and my parents wondering why my room was 90f

 

@Cerberuslike this?????

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by tenchimuyo93

[ENTERPRISE]

Awards issued to all participants If you feel I have missed you, please send me a PM. 

 

Regarding anyone struggling to send a PM, looks like this can be a result of old cache of browser level issues such as blocking plugins. Please consider clearing cache and trying a vanilla browser to send your PM

 

Many thanks,

E

[neurotix]

8 hours ago, firedfly said:

 

Just the difference between the 3000 series nvidia and 4000 series is significant.  The 3090 will get 8-9mil ppd, I believe.  My 4090 averages around 27mil ppd!  That is a HUGE jump in a single generation.

My 4090 OC'ed in Linux does very close to 30mil PPD and that's actual points, not just an estimate. In 4 days, I did 119m points, so..

 

Overclock has only got it at 2955MHz, yet I can clock the card to 3090MHz or higher in Windows. Unfortunately in Linux, X11 freezes up if I run it higher than 3000MHz.

[SamsTechStuff]

This was fun, glad I remembered to start up even if a bit late 

 

[axipher]

Thanks everyone for competing and joining the fun!

[damric]

Some numbers:

 

7500+ views on this thread.

 

7600+ Work Units completed in 4 days by 58 forum members, about half of them newcomers.

 

It took multiple brains to pull this event off.

 

I'd like to give a shout out to @Avacado for the idea, @axipher for without your score cards these things would not be possible, @ENTERPRISE for giving us plenty enough rope, @bonami2 for helping me advertise this thing, and @neurotix for without your banners we wouldn't have looked legitimate.

 

Thanks to W1zzard at TPU for graciously allowing me to advertise this, repeatedly bump the thread, and recruit your folders. You guys were great.

 

Thanks to @CoolGTX for giving me leeway at EVGA forum when I'm sure I looked like a nobody. I'm glad you and a couple of other members made it here.

 

Thanks to LTT, Guru3D, HWBOT, and F@H forums and discords for allowing my spam. Again I'm happy some of you made it here to join in the fun.

 

Thanks to EXTREMEHW forum for putting up with me as folding team lead when I'm still so green (only 2 years folding). Thanks to @BWG for mentoring me and eventually passing me the torch. @zodac you also taught me so much in a short amount of time. @firedfly I continuously rely in your knowledge.

 

Thanks to our sponsors for being so generous. I worked specifically with EVGA Jacob for this and he is just a cool dude.

 

Thanks @mmcdonald12 for not minding me running up our power bill to do this. You're always supportive of my hobbies

 

-Luke

 

 

 

 

[damric]

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We need your shipping addresses so we can get your prizes mailed. Message me or @Avacado