ended Fight Covid-19 & Win Prizes ! (Folding@Home) **Starts Midnight 08/04/20**

[ENTERPRISE]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello all,

 

So we are all very much aware of the Covid-19 threat. It has been amazing to see the Folding@Home community come together to fight this virus which has unfortunately ended lives around the world. We want to keep the folding effort going as the research is just so important, but we also want to give back to all those making the effort to contribute to this invaluable cause.

 

We would like to present the ''Fight Covid-19" Giveaway. This event has been graciously sponsored by InWin & Corsair. A huge thanks to them for putting up prizing for this event, we all love it when companies can see the importance in these projects. If you would like to show appreciate towards these two generous companies, feel free to maybe share/follow their social media. InWin FB, InWin Twitter, Corsair FB, Corsair Twitter.

 

Lets take a look below at what is up for grabs !

 

 

Prizes

 

InWin has graciously donated the InWin 904 Pro Case. This is one sleek looking case for any build.

 

 

 

 

 

Corsair has very kindly donated a VOID RGB ELITE Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround. Bound to help you with your KD Ratio.

 

 

 

 

 

ExtremeHW will also be throwing in some additional prizing as below.

• 4 Of: $25 Cash Sums (via Paypal only)
• 5 Of: 1 Year Premium Accounts

Member donated prizes

• Steam Gift Card $25, Donated by axipher

 

Looks like a nice haul right ? See below how to enter.

 

 

How to enter

 

1. You have to be a registered member of ExtremeHW. Sign up.

2. Your registered username on ExtemeHW should match your Folding Name where possible. (This is so we can match up your folding stats to your user account here for the prize draw), but this will not be a hard requirement as we want to make this giveaway accessible to all.

3. All you have to do is Fold for Team 239902 for the duration of this giveaway for automatic entry. You have to complete a minimum of 5 work units under Team 239902. For every 5 work units contributed, you get an additional entry into the giveaway. Example, If you submit 5 work units, you get one entry into the prize draw. If you fold 10 work units you get two entries and so on. The more you fold, the more likely you are to win.

 

 

Bonus entry *Not Mandatory*

 

If you share this giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter, you will get a bonus entry into the giveaway. Please post a screenshot in this thread of you sharing this giveaway on social media and we will count it as an additional entry for you when it comes to the prize drawing. Please use the red camera icon to the top right of the editor to upload your screenshot.

 

 

The duration of this giveaway is for 2 Weeks from midnight of the 08/04/2020 to midnight 22/04/2020 (Only work units submitted between these times will be accepted) **Midnight assumes BST** For help with timezone conversion see this tool

 

Please note that due to shipping restrictions, prizes from InWin can only be shipped to those within the USA/Canada If you are a winner of one of this item but do not reside within the aforementioned we can arrange to ship to a nominated receiver who can then ship the prize out to you, otherwise we will have re-draw. Prizes from ExtremeHW & Corsair are open internationally.

 

 

Prize drawing

 

Upon the end of the Giveaway we aim to complete the drawing 48-72 hours later and will announce as appropriate. You can see our winners chart below

 

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Winners will be contacted via PM on the site to collect shipping information. Please note that shipping may be delayed depending on restrictions with respect to Covid-19. Please note that all prizes must be claimed within 30 Days.

 

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How to setup your Folding@Home client

 

So if you are new to folding but want to contribute and enter this giveaway, check out our team thread with guides Here.

 

 

Check your Folding stats

 

Want to see how you are stacking up & how many work units you have submitted ? Look at the below table (Refresh this page for updates)

 

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[ENTERPRISE]

Trouble getting or sending a Work Unit ?

 

For anyone having trouble getting issues a Work Unit or having trouble sending a finished one back to Stanford, this can sometime be due to server issues at Stanfords end whereby the Assign/Accept servers are saturated or otherwise having issues.

 

Luckily you can check on the Stanford servers status here : https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats

 

Sometimes exiting your folding client and re-starting it can help, but sometimes you just have to be patient for the Assign/Accept servers to be ready to serve you.

 

 

WINNERS !

 

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Congratulations Winners ! Please see above table

 

For those who won a 1 Year Premium Account, these will be added to your account shortly.

 

For those who won the $25 Cash prize, please send me a PM headed "Covid-19 Giveaway" containing your Paypal email.

 

For those who won either the Corsair Headset or the InWin Case, I will contact you shortly to collect shipping details.

 

For the $25 Steam Gift Card winner, please send user Axipher a PM to claim.

 

Thanks to all of those who participated and thanks again to Corsair and InWin for being great sports !

 

Please note that all prizes must be claimed within 30 Days.

 

All the best,

E

Edited April 24, 2020 by ENTERPRISE

[Alex]

Nice!

[axipher]

In for this, fingers crossed my stats don't break

[Andrew]

Alex is cheating by folding on his GT1030 instead of 1080Ti ?

[mllrkllr88]

I have never folded a day in my life, but I have a rig I can setup and try this out I might need some help from the folding pro's...

[ENTERPRISE]

I have never folded a day in my life, but I have a rig I can setup and try this out I might need some help from the folding pro's...

 

As a bencher you should show us how it is done with all that hardware ! Bust out that Threadripper and a GPU. Imagine if you benched for 2 weeks straight with an LN2 Overclock....blimey. If only haha.

[Simmons]

You already know I am in this :wheee:

[Supercrumpet]

Just a heads up @ENTERPRISE , your team ID has a typo in the OP.

 

Thanks for setting this up!

[The Pook]

why do all the folding competitions start when it's ungodly hot out and I have no interest in folding?

 

come see me when it's cool again outside and I can offset my heat with folding power

[ENTERPRISE]

Just a heads up @ENTERPRISE , your team ID has a typo in the OP.

 

Thanks for setting this up!

 

Good catch bud, stupid brain getting things backwards !

[ENTERPRISE]

Midnight here, Let the giveaway begin !

[axipher]

The first 3 Work Units of the competition are in!!!

[ENTERPRISE]

Looks like people are throwing in those WU's.

 

Just as a head-up, due to my brain breaking momentarily, our team number in the OP was incorrect, please be sure your clients are setup to fold for Team 239902 (I got the numbers a little muddled before)

 

Also there is now a chance for a bonus entry

 

Bonus entry *Not Mandatory*

 

If you share this giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter, you will get a bonus entry into the giveaway. Please post a screenshot in this thread of you sharing this giveaway on social media and we will count it as an additional entry for you when it comes to the prize drawing. Please use the red camera icon to the top right of the editor to upload your screenshot.

 

Thanks guys !

Edited April 9, 2020 by ENTERPRISE

[StevoTheLeo]

 

[mllrkllr88]

Just a heads up @ENTERPRISE , your team ID has a typo in the OP.

 

Thanks for setting this up!

 

Good catch, I let it munch last night then saw this a few minutes ago. I swapped teams and now it's working again

[Supercrumpet]

Alright, I'm in as CptAsian!

[franz]

I will be switching over one of my GPUs for this contest. Thanks E

[ENTERPRISE]

I will be switching over one of my GPUs for this contest. Thanks E

 

Nice !

 

Trying to see if I can get my CPU Folding stable (3950X) But is just does not like it. All other benchmarks pass including FAHBench lol, but whatever WU they are giving me on the CPU just blows up my OC.

[axipher]

 

Nice !

 

Trying to see if I can get my CPU Folding stable (3950X) But is just does not like it. All other benchmarks pass including FAHBench lol, but whatever WU they are giving me on the CPU just blows up my OC.

 

Have you tested your memory recently? Memtest+ included on Ubuntu ISO's have been helping me a lot lately finding bad Ryzen RAM timings and settings. To get to Memtest+, you have to make sure to boot the USB stick you have the ISO in just regular non-UEFI mode.

[ENTERPRISE]

 

Have you tested your memory recently? Memtest+ included on Ubuntu ISO's have been helping me a lot lately finding bad Ryzen RAM timings and settings. To get to Memtest+, you have to make sure to boot the USB stick you have the ISO in just regular non-UEFI mode.

 

I have not recently but it is a fair point, I will give that ago to see if I can spot a bad set of timings.

[axipher]

 

I have not recently but it is a fair point, I will give that ago to see if I can spot a bad set of timings.

 

On the X370/1700x build I just put together for my buddy kept locking up in Windows on installers or unzipping files, ran MemTest+ and found errors about 30 minutes in to the test.

 

Checked BIOS and just changed the Memory speed to stock speed, turned off XMP profile, set all timings to Auto, shutdown and rebooted. Then I just set the speed back to the XMP speed and turned back on the XMP profile and shutdown and rebooted again. Ran MemTest+ again and this time no errors after about 5 hours to get through 3 full runs of MemTest+ and all good now. Was definitely a weird issue and threw mew through a weird loop of testing things.

 

TL;DR: Turn off XMP, Reboot, Turn on XMP, Profit...

[mllrkllr88]

Ok guys, anyone out there able to help me setup and optimize Threadripper 3970X? It looks like some people are getting it up to 1 million PPD...which seems like alot for a CPU??

 

I did a bit of googling and it seems there are some tweaks that need to happen to get the max out of this thing. I read some stuff about 'slot' settings for core/thread count but I am totally clueless.

 

Also, can anyone give me a really quick summary of how this scales with overclocking? For instance, how much system memory does it use and what the score increase? Overclocking CPU? Mem? I've been in the professional XOC world for some years now but never touched folding until yesterday...I know nothing.

[ychen]

 

 

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[ENTERPRISE]

Ok guys, anyone out there able to help me setup and optimize Threadripper 3970X? It looks like some people are getting it up to 1 million PPD...which seems like alot for a CPU??

 

I did a bit of googling and it seems there are some tweaks that need to happen to get the max out of this thing. I read some stuff about 'slot' settings for core/thread count but I am totally clueless.

 

Also, can anyone give me a really quick summary of how this scales with overclocking? For instance, how much system memory does it use and what the score increase? Overclocking CPU? Mem? I've been in the professional XOC world for some years now but never touched folding until yesterday...I know nothing.

 

@axipher thanks for your help, will check memory tomorrow. Any ideas for mllrkllr88 ?

 

So far as I know RAM so far as amount of it plays very little in folding, not so sure about the speed. Last time I checked which was a while ago, performance wise folding was fairly RAM agnostic. Aslong as you have adequate standard system memory you should be good, like 8GB would be fine.

 

So far as special configuration for the folding client, I am not sure. Unsure if Windows has to be tweaked with respect to the scheduler in order for the folding client to maximize on all the cores/threads of that CPU. I will take a look and see what I find.

 

Not sure on OC scaling, for me I just compared what PPD I was getting at VS what I got after the OC and that have me the answer.

 

Overclocking for folding is also a little harder as Folding really will find any tiny instability causing either hard crash or for the work unit to corrupt, you just need to take more time with it.