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Folding@Home 20th Anniversary Folding Competition - Lots of prizes up for grabs !


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Hello all, 

 

It is without a doubt that the Folding@Home project is hugely important. They have now been crunching data for the last 20 years with a view to creating treatments for some of the hideous diseases that afflict mankind. More so recently with the Covid-19 outbreak they helped to pioneer research into finding a suitable vaccine, the efforts from both the Folding@Home team and contributors alike has been nothing but amazing. Unsure what Folding@Home is or how to get started ? Check our Quick Guide

 

We at ExtremeHW wanted to celebrate the 20th year of Folding@Home with a competition with a chance to pick up some really rather nice prizing. For this competition we have been fortunate to work with some of our favorite companies that have been generous enough to sponsor this event with some goodies up for grabs. So before we go any further we want to thank the below companies for their sponsorship.

 

 

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Prizing 

 

Prizing will be done in tiers. In order to become eligible for certain prizes, you will need to have submitted a certain number of Work Units per day. You can see below the prizing available as well as the tier they are in with details as to how many Work Units you need to submit per day in order to be in with a chance.

 

Tier 1 (12+ Work Units Per Day)

 

Corsair - K100 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — CHERRY® MX Speed — Black

Cooler Master - Caliber R1 Camo Gaming Chair **Product page not live yet**

Crucial - Crucial P5 1TB PCIe M.2 2280SS NVMe

InWin - 904 Plus PC Chassis

 

Tier 2 (8+ Work Units Per Day)

 

TeamGroup - T-FORCE VULCAN Z grey 3200 16GB DDR4 (2x8Gb) Kit(Colour: Grey)

TeamGroup - T-FORCE VULCAN G SSD 512GB

Crucial - Crucial Ballistix RGB 3200 16GB DDR4 (2x8Gb) Kit (Choice of colour: White,Red,Black)

InWin - 700Watt Commander 3 80+ Gold Modular PSU

EKWB - EK-AIO Basic 240

 

Tier 3 (4+ Work Units Per Day)

 

$50 Cash Giveaway From @BWG

$25 Cash Giveaway from @axipher

£25 Cash Giveaway from @ENTERPRISE

£25 Cash Giveaway from @ENTERPRISE
Gold Premium Account from @Bastiaan_NL
 

Signup & Eligibility

 

In order to take part you must adhere to the below:

 

  • To take part in this competition, please complete this FORM
    We will use this form to also collect shipping details with so we can get winners details to sponsors as soon as possible. So please be sure to enter in a shipping address where you can accept the package.
    By filling out the form you are accepting the sites Terms & Conditions alongside all Rules/Important notes as details at the bottom of this post.

 

  • You must be a member of ExtremeHW. If not,  please Sign Up

 

  • You must also ensure that your Folding client is set to fold for Team 239902 for the entire duration of this competition.

 

 

 

Event Start/End & Winners

 

The event will run for 5 days in total from 22.2.21 12AM BST  to 26.2.21 12AM BST Any work units submitted prior or after this time frame will not be included. 

 

We aim to have picked all winners 72 hours from the end of the competition. Winners will be selected by automated name picker. All prizes will be shipped directly from the sponsors.

 

*Note* Due to global shipping being affected by normal world events as well as Covid related issue, please be patient for the arrival of your prize as there may be delays.

 


Rules/Important Notes

 

1. Each entrant is only eligible to win one prize. 

2. ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for prizes shipped that are not received/collected by the winners.

3. ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for inaccurate or incorrect shipping details provided by entrants.

4. ExtremeHW & Sponsor companies cannot be held responsible for any tax or import duties incurred.

5. All data collected via the sign up form will be destroyed within 90 days of competition end.

6. ExtremeHW reserves the right to remove entrants from the competition should entrants break our sites Terms & Conditions.

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So you want to see some nice pictures of what is up for grabs ? 

 

 

 

 

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WINNERS

 

 

 

@Cerberus = Corsair - K100 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — CHERRY® MX Speed — Black 
@Nestala = Cooler Master - Caliber R1 Camo Gaming Chair   
@Zonalo = Crucial - Crucial P5 1TB PCIe M.2 2280SS NVMe  
@Bastiaan_NL = InWin - 904 Plus PC Chassis  

 

@Imports_R32 = Crucial - Crucial Ballistix RGB 3200 16GB DDR4 (2x8Gb) Kit (Choice of colour: White,Red,Black) 
@BWG = InWin - 700Watt Commander 3 80+ Gold Modular PSU 
@pioneerisloud = EKWB - EK-AIO Basic 240

 

@bsasealteam6 = TeamGroup - T-FORCE VULCAN Z grey 3200 16GB DDR4 (2x8Gb) Kit(Colour: Grey) 
@bonami2  = TeamGroup - T-FORCE VULCAN G SSD 512GB 

 


@aulcus = $50 Cash Giveaway From @BWG 
@Diffident = $25 Cash Giveaway from @axipher  
@Alex = £25 Cash Giveaway from @ENTERPRISE
@Sgt_Swanny = £25 Cash Giveaway from @ENTERPRISE 
@spyzer = Gold Premium Account from @Bastiaan_NL

 

 

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GPU: EVGA 3090 FTW Ultra Gaming
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PSU: EVGA Supernova T2 1600Watt
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in! cant wait!

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  On 04/02/2021 at 13:28, axipher said:

Thanks for putting together this amazing competition.  Once you make the Twitter Post, I'll be sure to share it and hopefully everyone else here can as well :)

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No problems bud ! 

 

Already got it up on Twitter :)

 

Also on Facebook for those interested.

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Ayyy, I forgot about folding. I'm having a go at folding on my CPU this time so I can see what sort of PPD I can get from it. I got 26,000 PPD from my R5 1600. I am also folding with my GPU as well because that's the most efficient.

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  On 04/02/2021 at 16:19, Bastiaan_NL said:

IN :classic_biggrin:

 

Don't forget to add the Gold membership to the prizes @ENTERPRISE

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Yep will get it added to the prize pool :)

  On 04/02/2021 at 16:38, Minotaurtoo said:

in :wheee_orange: Form all filled out and hoping for cold weather lol.

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Ha, I don't think you will be alone in that.

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In!

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  On 04/02/2021 at 13:47, Andrew said:

Ayyy, I forgot about folding. I'm having a go at folding on my CPU this time so I can see what sort of PPD I can get from it. I got 26,000 PPD from my R5 1600. I am also folding with my GPU as well because that's the most efficient.

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As it turns out, there's not much of a difference as far as PPD goes between my 1600 and 5800.

 

I am in as well.

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Put me down for $50 PayPal! Let's have some fun!

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No!

 

Blame Canada!

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GPU 2: EVGA RTX 3080ti FTW3 Ultra
GPU 3: EVGA RTX 3080ti XC3 Hybrid
GPU 4: EVGA RTX 3070ti FTW3 Ultra
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  On 04/02/2021 at 19:42, BWG said:

Put me down for $50 PayPal! Let's have some fun!

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Oh nice ! Thanks bud.

  On 04/02/2021 at 19:47, axipher said:

 

Is this the real BWG, well hello there fellow :)

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You will find that it certainly is !

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GPU: EVGA 3090 FTW Ultra Gaming
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  On 04/02/2021 at 19:16, Andrew said:

As it turns out, there's not much of a difference as far as PPD goes between my 1600 and 5800.

 

I am in as well.

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I'm am trying to figure out how to get more work units done lol... last time I had more points than a member who had nearly double the work units I had... so I am testing out dividing my cpu slot into two slots of 11 threads each, seems to be working so far, time will tell... maybe the same idea could work for the 5800x in getting more points since multi threading is better on the 2nd and 3rd gen zen.

on another note, and more on topic, I am sharing this thread with a few family members, including my son who has a similar setup to me... he says he will join in... would really like to see this site grow, since it's better than the alternative... wonder if anyone over there has noticed I've been gone yet lol.

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Am in :D Should attract a lot of people over here! We need more people folding to get back to the top!

1050ti mobile + rx 480 folding right now already!

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well... I don't know if my son has joined up yet, but I was able to convince my wife to use her PC for FAH... but she wanted me to do it in my name, is there any rules against that in the competition... I don't think so, but thought I'd ask to be sure.... poor PC, it only has a 3200g, but it chugs along cool and quietly getting it's 66k ppd ? seems low

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  On 13/02/2021 at 14:56, Minotaurtoo said:

well... I don't know if my son has joined up yet, but I was able to convince my wife to use her PC for FAH... but she wanted me to do it in my name, is there any rules against that in the competition... I don't think so, but thought I'd ask to be sure.... poor PC, it only has a 3200g, but it chugs along cool and quietly getting it's 66k ppd ? seems low

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No, FaT's are all about every last piece of tech we can get our grubby hands on to fold. The MOAR, the merrier. 

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  On 13/02/2021 at 14:56, Minotaurtoo said:

well... I don't know if my son has joined up yet, but I was able to convince my wife to use her PC for FAH... but she wanted me to do it in my name, is there any rules against that in the competition... I don't think so, but thought I'd ask to be sure.... poor PC, it only has a 3200g, but it chugs along cool and quietly getting it's 66k ppd ? seems low

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Like Avacado said, it's no problem. Ask your neighbors, friends and family, install F@H on the display computers at your local hardware store, whatever you can to produce more than @Avacado!
 

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  On 13/02/2021 at 20:28, Bastiaan_NL said:

Like Avacado said, it's no problem. Ask your neighbors, friends and family, install F@H on the display computers at your local hardware store, whatever you can to produce more than @Avacado!
 

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Pfft, i'm not the threat anymore. You guys with multiple 3090's are. The M40s and K80's did not pan out. Biggest issue was 16x extenders and Heat. They thermal throttled so hard! You better pray I don't find any 3 series cards for MSRP. 

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