Hi all Even though every year we seem to suffer a small drop over the Christmas period, we don't seem to have bounced back this year to our normal 3 million a day average. Combined, with losing a couple of major farmers recently, we've now got some threats appearing on our radar for the first time in years. Namely, Overclock.net and TSC! Russia. Although they are both a number of years behind us, it won't take much of a ppd shift for the situation to change for the worse. So - all hands to the oars and row faster chaps I'll try and increase my own personal contribution to the team over the next couple of weekends by building a few more rigs.
I know its not much but every bit helps. Ive just upped mine from 125ppd to over 2000ppd. Thats 16 times more AWESOME!!!
I've Just had my best month folding ever, and still have 2 days to go, I'm peddaling as fast as I can
Must admit due 2 hardware failures and internet problems I have struggled to keep an decent ppd ,to make things worse my new build is now hold as the misses wants a holiday :-(
I had almost all my server's drop off while I was out of the country recently thanks to a switch failing Fixed that yesterday, should get back to my 20,000 PPD soon hopefully.
Ive cranked my pc right up again.....something is better than nothing. i think i'll try start contributing a bit at a time again. Cant see the team go down!!!
As im sure you will all appreciate if I could run any more I would lol! I've got my main WC'd 4.2ghz i7 cracking out some bigadv's again for a while but im killing my lecky bill I will try and stay upto around 200,000 ppd for as long as I can but keeping 9 CPU's and 20 GPU's running 24/7 is not without its challenges!
Just got my electricity bill the other day. Paid the outstanding balance as well as my Gas today. Both rigs, an E8600 with a GTX275 & a GTX260. Q6600 with 2x GTX260 both still folding despite the big hole burned in my pocket.
Well at least its payday today so all is not lost! btw whats the best cpu folding clients these days? is it still better to use vmware and notfred or the foldings own smp thing? ive been reading things about bigadv ?
Forget about notfred. Just run a windows SMP client you will get 'nuff bonus & you will still be able to use the machine for gaming or whatever occasionally. Bigadv will provide more bonus if you just leave it alone & never use it for 'owt else.
I'm with British Gas Dual-Fuel so no not really that cheap lol. I should say though as a lot of people already know but my most of my dedicated rigs - 3 x 9800GX2's, 8 x GTX260's, 2 x 9800GT's and a bunch of CPU's over 3ghz are in work in the air-conned server room saying as im in charge of it hehe but I still run 2 x GTX260's, a GTX295, 2 x 4.2ghz i7's, a Q6600 and a E8400 at home so I got a good 1500-2000 watts being pulled 24/7! Yes VMware & NotFred still best PPD at the moment mate, if you have an i7 running over 3.6ghz with hyper threading turned on then you can jump on the BigAdv bandwagon for a nice big bonus in PPD
does that mean i have to recongure my not fred clients? how do i sort out the bigadv? or for now would it be simplier to download the smp client?
The new a3 core with 6.29 client will provide a good halfway house between the previously 'broken' 4 core smp folding & the latest bigadv 4+ core folding.
Tesla - yeah I will if you give me some hardware and I will find it a home in there for it lol I done a quick/rough add up and worked out I have around £4000 worth of dedicated gear folding out of my own pocket, in fact shiiiiit I didn't realise I had so much moneys worth of kit!!! DaTLiTe - see here mate and leave questions about it on there, im using it on 2 of my i7's and its alllll good http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=181923 You can shut this BigAdv down if you want to have a game as well, just don't leave it down for too long as you will miss the deadline and miss out on the bonus but @ 3.8ghz you will have a good 20 hours to play with!
I'm under 1000 k/watts in total thankfully. Somehow I suspect my rigs might obtain a new username in your server room
i7 920 online (@3.3ghz at the moment using the Asus ROG i7-965 level up option) 2x9800GX2 cards back online need some tips on getting to 3.8Ghz, will an Phenom II at 3Ghz be able to do Big adv units (guess i could sell it later on and get an UD5 and an I7-920 or 6 core as the UD5 does have Lots Sata connectors)
