EXTREMEHW 3RD ANNUAL 96-HOUR FOLDING CHALLENGE April 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, STARTING April 26th 00:00 UTC

[Sid098]

I am in

[pio]

8 minutes ago, Sid098 said:

I am in

Sweet!  I'll keep an eye on the stats to make sure your name pops up since you're new.

[Sir Beregond]

What kind of PPD you getting on that 9070 XT out of curiosity and how does that compare to your old 7900 XTX?

[pio]

12 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

What kind of PPD you getting on that 9070 XT out of curiosity and how does that compare to your old 7900 XTX?

Seems to be slightly less.  I had to reboot and haven't fired it back up, but its reporting around 6m PPD so far.  I can probably give better numbers in a day or so.

[bonami2]

4-5m but my cpu at 100% on 32 thread. 9070xt nitro +

I forgot to change folding name doing that now!

[pio]

4 hours ago, bonami2 said:

4-5m but my cpu at 100% on 32 thread. 9070xt nitro +

I forgot to change folding name doing that now!

Yup, mine seems to be settling in about the same there too.

[bogmali]

I am in, as usual, and switched my clients over

[Sir Beregond]

6 hours ago, bonami2 said:

4-5m but my cpu at 100% on 32 thread. 9070xt nitro +

I forgot to change folding name doing that now!

Still don't see you on the board, check team?

[damric]

3 hours ago, bogmali said:

I am in, as usual, and switched my clients over

Glad to see you here

[pio]

On 25/04/2025 at 22:46, Sir Beregond said:

What kind of PPD you getting on that 9070 XT out of curiosity and how does that compare to your old 7900 XTX?

9070 XT seems to be settling in around 6-6.7m PPD or so (mine and Labrat's both).
7900 XTX is settling in around 7.7m PPD.

[bonami2]

16 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Still don't see you on the board, check team?

Am in now seem like my F@H crashed my gpu at 1% load. Rebooting. 

 

IT WORKING NOW!

Edited April 27 by bonami2

[bonami2]

Update folding fine. Seem like Task Manager can't read properly gpu load on amd. It fine on hwinfo64

Edited April 28 by bonami2

[pio]

Just a couple more days, and since we're still wanting to do the prizes, let's shoot for 25 people involved in the foldathon instead of 50.  We need 8 more people to fold, just get your names on the board!

[pio]

Alright guys, event ends in 2 hours.  It's the home stretch!!!!!

Question.

We didn't come anywhere NEAR the numbers I was hoping to see, of 50 participants.  I even lowered that down to half and said 25 people join up and we'll still give out these prizes.  Unfortunately, we ended up with 17 participants.  So we want to hear from YOU.  All of you.

Mine and Labrat's position is maybe we shouldn't send out these prizes as we didn't hit even half of the participants we wanted.  Or perhaps maybe just offer up the RAM kit as a random draw since the RAM kit wasn't too expensive.  What do you guys think?  I was sincerely hoping we'd hit those metrics.  Let's get your guys' opinions on the prizes and what we should do with them as the event winds down today.

[Sid098]

i think doing a random draw for all the prizes is a good idea. i doubt i will win anything from a random draw but i still think doing a random draw for all the prizes is a good idea

[bonami2]

I vote out for myself. I was gaming half the the time and had a stuck work unit

I will do better next time.

[pio]

7 minutes ago, bonami2 said:

I vote out for myself. I was gaming half the the time and had a stuck work unit

I will do better next time.

No worries bro.  We're just happy to be able to bring these events back again, and hopefully bigger and better each time.

I know YOU might not want prizes, but what do you think we should do about them?  We're trying to listen to everyone's opinion on this one, as I think this was the biggest prize pot the site's had to date, but also the lowest participation rate.

[bonami2]

46 minutes ago, pio said:

No worries bro.  We're just happy to be able to bring these events back again, and hopefully bigger and better each time.

I know YOU might not want prizes, but what do you think we should do about them?  We're trying to listen to everyone's opinion on this one, as I think this was the biggest prize pot the site's had to date, but also the lowest participation rate.

We had a Sponsored one a while back i think with lots of stuff.

Am not sure lot of member wanted to win. But the starting goal was 40 no?

I think we should push thing to the next one but at the same time i don't think getting more people would be easy.

 

Maybe with split in half. Half the item for this event on a draw and the rest for the next big event.

Edited April 29 by bonami2

[mx500torid]

Prizes are nice but i really do not think the ones that folded was doing it just for the prizes. Save the prizes for a later contest when we have more participation. It was a very nice gesture to put up the prizes though Pio. Much respect Sir!!

[pio]

I've added signature badges for everyone that participated this year.  Still trying to figure out what we're going to do about prizes (event ends in 10 minutes).

I was unable to find the following members on site to apply the badges though (perhaps user names are different on site):

• Q_Cruncher
• MicheleEHW
• CptAsian
• hertz9753

Please DM me (I just need user names on site), and I'll get those badges sorted out for you 4.

[pio]

Huge thank you and congratulations to everyone who participated.  Hopefully we did some good for the cause this year!

[Fluxmaven]

Thanks to everyone that participated!

 

I was hoping to get some more competition to make me dying of heatstroke with all my stuff folding more worth it.  

 

I understand that it may take a while to build back up to where we were previously. A lot of users jumped ship when the site was about to go down and don't want to jump back and forth from team to team. I am in that position myself. I went to [H]ardforum to fold when I thought EHW was going under. I feel a bit of commitment to both and as such have been splitting my resources between the two teams. 

 

As for the prizes, we didn't hit either of the set milestones so I'd save them for the next big event.

 

 

[Sid098]

Okay.

[pio]

We've decided to go ahead and draw ONE random winner for ONE GPU prize draw since we have so many graphics cards.

We'll be doing a video drawing here in about an hour for ONE random person to win an RX 580 8GB as a thank you effort, since we didn't meet metrics anyway.  

(Image not our image - but this is the same MSI RX 580's we have on hand):

[damric]

1 hour ago, pio said:

I've added signature badges for everyone that participated this year.  Still trying to figure out what we're going to do about prizes (event ends in 10 minutes).

I was unable to find the following members on site to apply the badges though (perhaps user names are different on site):

• Q_Cruncher
• MicheleEHW
• CptAsian
• hertz9753

Please DM me (I just need user names on site), and I'll get those badges sorted out for you 4.

Let's see. Q_Cruncher is long time veteran @tictoc right?

 

MicheleEHW is @mmcdonald12

 

CtpAsian is @Supercrumpet

 

And hertz9753, well he's somehow fighting from the grave *respect*