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Welcome back! It is good to see you here again!
I'll second that. Great to have you back folding
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Welcome back! It is good to see you here again!
Background:
Working with the team stats a few years back, our number of active folders was about 640. Now we're hovering just over 300 hundred (310 atm).
No matter how successful our team is at farming, we can't rely on a few super productive folders (ChasR, HayesK, SFU, Ned, etc.), to move our team away from the likes of TSC! Russia with their 800+ members. We need more actively folding teammates, and we aren't getting them.
We need to partner up with some (perhaps several), manufacturers and/or distributors, of PC gear. EVGA, Overclockers.net, even Hardware Canucks, have done this, all with great success.
Overclocking.com is a great name, but overclocking information is available (even on OCF), quite apart from Folding@Home. We don't get a lot of new folders, because they came here looking for overclocking help.
We need something that will attract new members, and there's nothing as successful as special or discounted prices on new gear. I know Gregorian chanting *seems* like it would attract hordes of FAH enthusiasts, but so far, it hasn't worked.
What companies we make arrangements with, what those arrangements will be, and how they'll be implemented, are important details, for later. First, we need to decide whether we want to pursue this, or not. IMO, we either have to move forward with it, or accept becoming a team fighting to stay even, but ultimately on the decline.
I see the excitement that is so evident on the "new gear" teams, when the newest discounted or special gear offer rolls out onto their forum. We need that kind of excitement, to attract and maintain new members. FAH will always be about the cure, but new folders have a choice of thousands of FAH teams. Whether we like it or not, we are in competition for those new members. They are likely to only join one team. Right now, we're not being competitive with the best teams, in recruiting/attracting the new members we need.
Comments most welcome.
I agree with tuigi69, the team needs to be more visible. It being deep in the OC Forums with no real front page of its own makes it easy to skip over. More OC'ers need to know this pushes your rig for stability testing and it all goes for a good cause.
How many members does OCF actually have?
So which company shall we sell ourselves out to. I personally use quite a few MSI boards and vid cards as well as ASUS. Got a couple ASROCK to boot. Only half-kidding about this, though. We really do need to do something to draw in new folders.
Do NV cards still reign supreme?
Can I fold with HD6970s (inbound) or should I return them for something else?
Well, here's my 930 setup @ 3 GB's RAM. It's not even getting close to hitting the swap file.Don't feel bad i just had to google what a X5650 was.
As far as bigadv being helped by SSD Can't help ya there i'm still an SSD virgin.
You should be able to get away with 4Gb ram running bigadv in VM, but as is always the case, more is always better......
I'm out of the loop as far as gpu folding goes.....Not much help to ya.
Be sure to use ext3 file system
No, not really, you can now boot W7 in 12 secs. or so though. Around here, I doubt anyone boots more than they have to to profit from an SSD. As to performance, I'll find out.@ HayesK & Adak
Wait guys... hold on now. You mean to tell me I bought an SSD for nothing.
We've got ext4 now, ext3 is so last year...
What filesystem are you comparing ext3 to, where the other filesystem causes delays?