Folding nostalgia- remember when...

Audioaficionado · 04-27-12, 09:28 PM

I remember folding in Windows 98SE with my single Pentium Pro processor. By the time I moved up to W2k and had two processors, the machine was too slow to bother with. Then I got an AMD Thoroughbred to over clock and fold with.

Leonardo · 04-27-12, 09:33 PM

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...I remember when WU points were still single digit range....

Yeah, before they hit the 'range' and were just just 1 point. I was so smug with my first 100 points.

Tweaked! · 04-28-12, 07:17 AM

Wow, lots of memories...

I remember running my first dual proc computer just so I could run two clients at once. That was a MSI K7D Master w/ dual XP1600's (with conductive paint bridging the conductive pins to enable dual use and unlocking the multipliers).

I also had up to 28 motherboards all screwed to a peg board in my basement, all barebones with just a motherboard, proc, vid card and a small 2- 8 gb hdd, and up to three all wired to one power supply just for F@H. My friends all thought I was nuts, but I really enjoyed it all, and my basement was always warm (and loud)...

I also supplied quite a few friends with free pc's as long as they agreed to leave them running 24/7 with the client running in the background.

That was back when you could build a decent rig for under a buck 50. Nowadays you can't even buy a decent motherboard for that.
But I definitely remember when wu's were only worth a point each, and I remember feeling jipped whenever one of my clients would fetch a wu worth half a point.

I believe I originally started folding back in the pentium 2 days, and my first folding rig was a PII 266.

ihrsetrdr · 04-28-12, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Tweaked!

Wow, lots of memories...

I remember running my first dual proc computer just so I could run two clients at once. That was a MSI K7D Master w/ dual XP1600's (with conductive paint bridging the conductive pins to enable dual use and unlocking the multipliers).

I also had up to 28 motherboards all screwed to a peg board in my basement, all barebones with just a motherboard, proc, vid card and a small 2- 8 gb hdd, and up to three all wired to one power supply just for F@H. My friends all thought I was nuts, but I really enjoyed it all, and my basement was always warm (and loud)...

Yeah! gotta love those MSI K7D Master boards! At one time I had three MSI K7D Masters and three Asus A7M266-D boards, plus 3 or 4 single processor rigs...all in a 11 x 12 ft, room.

Too many processors to remember, some were MPs, some were modded XPs.

Audioaficionado · 04-28-12, 01:10 PM

Yeah... those were the years when sales of window defroster repair kits went through the roof

I had my dual socket Iwill D800 running full bore and once on a particularly slow day for T32 I was on the top 20 producers list for a couple of updates. Too bad I didn't get that screen shot

WarriorII · 04-28-12, 11:01 PM

I miss roasting hot dogs on my Pentium D 805 at 4GHz.

Oh, where oh where are Glasslicker & Ghettocomp, AlabamaCajin ?

Does anyone talk the talk or talk the smack anymore?

Hard to believe I use to poke Shellnutt & MrGuverment because I was ahead of them (just barely)

The Chimp Challenge was a time we all came together under one name and Folded our hearts out for a week or so. Full Blaze, Damn the Mrs ! we got points to lay down !!!

We have a good crew now, and have good times ahead. We have our own smack to talk
and monkey poo to be flung! Oh where are them Cheesey Poofs ?

Bring it on Spanky !

FIRST one I'm taking out is LowRyder !
and then up the ladder you shall fall.

Fold On !

WII

muddocktor · 04-29-12, 10:02 PM

.....The latest and greatest client was V2?

.....WUs that were valued at .6 points/WU and took several hours to crunch on a Tbird at 1.4.

.....If you were doing 100 points/day you were a big time folding GOD!!!!!

LoganG · 04-29-12, 10:22 PM

...the date was Apr 8th, 2012 and I folded my first WU.

...The CC setup wasn't coming along very well due to no one in charge

Okay so I haven't been around long enough to have real memories...

Adak · 04-30-12, 04:05 AM

^^^^

belorsch · 04-30-12, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by muddocktor

.....If you were doing 100 points/day you were a big time folding GOD!!!!!

This...
I remember when Lews was the Folding Powah on the team...
Keep in mind mudds qoute and then have a look at this thread
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=55518

Adak · 04-30-12, 12:43 PM

^^^^ Wow! 2002 no less!

WarriorII · 04-30-12, 01:09 PM

QMD's put out 600 pts and you HAD to have an Intel cpu otherwise forget it.

Adak · 04-30-12, 01:22 PM

And OF COURSE, I had two AMD's at that time.

ihrsetrdr · 04-30-12, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by WarriorII

QMD's put out 600 pts and you HAD to have an Intel cpu otherwise forget it.

Hence my reluctant migration over to the "dark side".

WarriorII · 05-01-12, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ihrsetrdr

Hence my reluctant migration over to the "dark side".

Once I switched from the Duron I did surgery on, I never went back.

pik4chu · 05-01-12, 11:32 AM

was digging through cleaning up images and saw this, so here is my contribution to nostalgia

Adak · 05-01-12, 11:59 AM

^^^^ Yes! ^^^^

muddocktor · 05-01-12, 02:27 PM

Yep, good old EMIII. I remember we had an OCForums skin for it too, which was cool!

Audioaficionado · 05-01-12, 02:39 PM

I loved EMIII. It was hard to move on, but it stopped being supported a long time ago.

I.M.O.G. · 05-02-12, 10:43 PM

Great thread, good read... Thanks for the bumpage. I remember EMIII too.

04-27-12, 09:28 PM	#41
Audioaficionado Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Medford, Orygun	I remember folding in Windows 98SE with my single Pentium Pro processor. By the time I moved up to W2k and had two processors, the machine was too slow to bother with. Then I got an AMD Thoroughbred to over clock and fold with. __________________ .....................................My Heatware MyFAH Stats .......................Folding is a marathon, not a sprint © audioaficionado Asus Commando, 8GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, Q6600 @3.0GHz >SMP2+GPU3 FAH 24/7 Gigabyte DS3, 3GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6400 @3.0GHz Asus P5Q PRO Turbo, 4GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6600 @3.0GHz Iwill DH800, 2GB OCZ4002048PFDC-K 2.5-3-3-8-1t, Dual 2.4 M0 Xeons 1.5v/880/3300 Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! You have over 101 posts and Can't see the classifieds???Click This Link Anyone we catch cookie stuffing at this site will be banned on the spot!!
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04-28-12, 07:17 AM	#43
Tweaked! Xtreme refugee Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Oh.	Wow, lots of memories... I remember running my first dual proc computer just so I could run two clients at once. That was a MSI K7D Master w/ dual XP1600's (with conductive paint bridging the conductive pins to enable dual use and unlocking the multipliers). I also had up to 28 motherboards all screwed to a peg board in my basement, all barebones with just a motherboard, proc, vid card and a small 2- 8 gb hdd, and up to three all wired to one power supply just for F@H. My friends all thought I was nuts, but I really enjoyed it all, and my basement was always warm (and loud)... I also supplied quite a few friends with free pc's as long as they agreed to leave them running 24/7 with the client running in the background. That was back when you could build a decent rig for under a buck 50. Nowadays you can't even buy a decent motherboard for that. But I definitely remember when wu's were only worth a point each, and I remember feeling jipped whenever one of my clients would fetch a wu worth half a point. I believe I originally started folding back in the pentium 2 days, and my first folding rig was a PII 266. __________________ E8400@3.4 w/ Apogee w/c Asus P5B Deluxe 8gb pc2-6400 @ 475mhz 1:1 5,5,5,15 Asus GTX570 DCII PC P&C 610w Silencer 2 WD sata 3.0 raid array 0 My Heat
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04-28-12, 01:10 PM	#45
Audioaficionado Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Medford, Orygun	Yeah... those were the years when sales of window defroster repair kits went through the roof I had my dual socket Iwill D800 running full bore and once on a particularly slow day for T32 I was on the top 20 producers list for a couple of updates. Too bad I didn't get that screen shot __________________ .....................................My Heatware MyFAH Stats .......................Folding is a marathon, not a sprint © audioaficionado Asus Commando, 8GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, Q6600 @3.0GHz >SMP2+GPU3 FAH 24/7 Gigabyte DS3, 3GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6400 @3.0GHz Asus P5Q PRO Turbo, 4GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6600 @3.0GHz Iwill DH800, 2GB OCZ4002048PFDC-K 2.5-3-3-8-1t, Dual 2.4 M0 Xeons 1.5v/880/3300 Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! You have over 101 posts and Can't see the classifieds???Click This Link Anyone we catch cookie stuffing at this site will be banned on the spot!!
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04-28-12, 11:01 PM	#46
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	I miss roasting hot dogs on my Pentium D 805 at 4GHz. Oh, where oh where are Glasslicker & Ghettocomp, AlabamaCajin ? Does anyone talk the talk or talk the smack anymore? Hard to believe I use to poke Shellnutt & MrGuverment because I was ahead of them (just barely) The Chimp Challenge was a time we all came together under one name and Folded our hearts out for a week or so. Full Blaze, Damn the Mrs ! we got points to lay down !!! We have a good crew now, and have good times ahead. We have our own smack to talk and monkey poo to be flung! Oh where are them Cheesey Poofs ? Bring it on Spanky ! FIRST one I'm taking out is LowRyder ! and then up the ladder you shall fall. Fold On ! WII __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII Become a fan on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! \| Follow us on Twitter!
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04-29-12, 10:02 PM	#47
muddocktor Retired Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New Iberia, LA	.....The latest and greatest client was V2? .....WUs that were valued at .6 points/WU and took several hours to crunch on a Tbird at 1.4. .....If you were doing 100 points/day you were a big time folding GOD!!!!!
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04-29-12, 10:22 PM	#48
LoganG Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: NM, USA	...the date was Apr 8th, 2012 and I folded my first WU. ...The CC setup wasn't coming along very well due to no one in charge Okay so I haven't been around long enough to have real memories... __________________ Biostar TA970EX \| AMD Fx-6100 @ 4000 MHz \| Cooler Master 212 \| 16GB Kingston HyperX 1600 \| ASUS HD7850 \| 120GB SanDisk Extreme SSD \| 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD \| 640GB Hitachi HDD MSI 990FXA-GD65V2 \| AMD FX-8320 @ 4200MHz \| Corsair H100i \| 8GB Patriot Viper 3 1866 \| Sapphire 7870 \| 120GB Kingston HyperX SSD \| 240GB PNY SSD \| 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
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04-30-12, 04:05 AM	#49
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	^^^^
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04-30-12, 12:43 PM	#51
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	^^^^ Wow! 2002 no less!
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04-30-12, 01:09 PM	#52
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	QMD's put out 600 pts and you HAD to have an Intel cpu otherwise forget it. __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII Become a fan on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! \| Follow us on Twitter!
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04-30-12, 01:22 PM	#53
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	And OF COURSE, I had two AMD's at that time.
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05-01-12, 11:32 AM	#56
pik4chu Senior Yellow Forum Rat Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Highlands Ranch, Colorado	was digging through cleaning up images and saw this, so here is my contribution to nostalgia __________________ DFI X58-T3EH8 \| I7-920 C0@3.0 (V8) \| 62GB Corsair Dominator @1800-7-7-7-18 \| eVGA 285 \| 1.5 TB RAID 0 \| Win7 64-bit (456Watts) Main Server (WIP):* DFI X58-T3EH8 \| I7-920 C0@3.6 \| 32GB Corsair Dominator @1800-7-7-7-18 \| 81.5TB in RAID 5 (283Watts) Team 32 Countdown heatware
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05-01-12, 11:59 AM	#57
Adak Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	^^^^ Yes! ^^^^
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05-01-12, 02:27 PM	#58
muddocktor Retired Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New Iberia, LA	Yep, good old EMIII. I remember we had an OCForums skin for it too, which was cool!
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05-01-12, 02:39 PM	#59
Audioaficionado Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Medford, Orygun	I loved EMIII. It was hard to move on, but it stopped being supported a long time ago. __________________ .....................................My Heatware MyFAH Stats .......................Folding is a marathon, not a sprint © audioaficionado Asus Commando, 8GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, Q6600 @3.0GHz >SMP2+GPU3 FAH 24/7 Gigabyte DS3, 3GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6400 @3.0GHz Asus P5Q PRO Turbo, 4GB GSkill 5-5-5-15-2t PC6400, E6600 @3.0GHz Iwill DH800, 2GB OCZ4002048PFDC-K 2.5-3-3-8-1t, Dual 2.4 M0 Xeons 1.5v/880/3300 Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! You have over 101 posts and Can't see the classifieds???Click This Link Anyone we catch cookie stuffing at this site will be banned on the spot!!
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05-02-12, 10:43 PM	#60
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