- Joined
- Jul 17, 2003
To start with, a very big congrats to superducky on earning 7 billion points. I mean really. 7 billion. That's a lot of good effort for a great cause. Thank you for folding with us.
As a team, we are still chasing 4 teams to include some very heavy hitters like Nvidia and PCMR. Honestly. When I say that we are the little team with much strength, I mean it. We just keep going and these much larger teams with much more resources eat. our. dust. (read it for effect)
Hardware.no = 72 active folders.
NVIDIA = 16 but when you are the manufacturer of the best cards for folding and you use some to out produce the world....
PC Games Hardware = 90 active folders.
PCMR = 353.
We are fielding at this time a grand total of 37 and we don't produce and/or sell GPUs. So yeah. We're tough and set a standard that the others are forced to compete with. Win or lose, we are a force to be recognized. A force for good. I feel like I need to add that qualifier. We are doing good not evil. So keep at it and lets help cure disease. As a reminder, we primarily help with things like cancer and atziemers and such.
Now comes the more personal part. My intention here is to encourage active participation to build friendship and create shared experience as a team. So skip this part, respond to this part or ignor it completely and post your own experience(s). Have some fun and share some stuff.
In the last two months, we got two very steep electric bills. Now to put it in better perspective, our bothers/sisters in the South would say that we are getting by on low to average electric bills. That is, our extremely high bills for two months would be considered light to average for those in the South. While I can appreciate that you folks in the South pay a lot more for electric, we don't. Hell, I live in the death radius of two nuclear power plants and while one is being decomissioned*.... still. Power is generated very close to home. Anyway, due to the widely large extra cost, I shut down some folding so that I'm not using electric which is producing heat and then using more electric to combat that heat. Keeping in mind that we have a SEER7 AC unit. (That ain't great.) However... My farm in the basement decieded to just randomly help by shutting itself down.
While producing 0 ppd will help reduce my costs, it was far from my intention. Yesterday after work, I went and restarted my farm. My main rig has 2 x 3080 and a 3060. The F@H client says that they are all disabled. I've had this issue two other times and the last time it just fixed itself. So in frustration, I turned off the monitor and left it. We'll see how long it takes to work itself back into full running condition or... the weekend is coming so I could just look at the issue.
Oh. The issue that caused these very high (several hundreds of dollars above normal) bills for two months straight? The AC was running 24/7 but the 50A 240v breaker was meting supply lines. Paid a couple hundred bucks to get that fixed an all should be back to normal.
I'm looking forward to getting a smart meter that I can check via my phone or computer. A few of my co-workers got them and I've been seeing the WiFi anttenas along the road. Good stuff.
For reference:
* https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/pali.html
www.nrc.gov
As a team, we are still chasing 4 teams to include some very heavy hitters like Nvidia and PCMR. Honestly. When I say that we are the little team with much strength, I mean it. We just keep going and these much larger teams with much more resources eat. our. dust. (read it for effect)
Hardware.no = 72 active folders.
NVIDIA = 16 but when you are the manufacturer of the best cards for folding and you use some to out produce the world....
PC Games Hardware = 90 active folders.
PCMR = 353.
We are fielding at this time a grand total of 37 and we don't produce and/or sell GPUs. So yeah. We're tough and set a standard that the others are forced to compete with. Win or lose, we are a force to be recognized. A force for good. I feel like I need to add that qualifier. We are doing good not evil. So keep at it and lets help cure disease. As a reminder, we primarily help with things like cancer and atziemers and such.
Now comes the more personal part. My intention here is to encourage active participation to build friendship and create shared experience as a team. So skip this part, respond to this part or ignor it completely and post your own experience(s). Have some fun and share some stuff.
In the last two months, we got two very steep electric bills. Now to put it in better perspective, our bothers/sisters in the South would say that we are getting by on low to average electric bills. That is, our extremely high bills for two months would be considered light to average for those in the South. While I can appreciate that you folks in the South pay a lot more for electric, we don't. Hell, I live in the death radius of two nuclear power plants and while one is being decomissioned*.... still. Power is generated very close to home. Anyway, due to the widely large extra cost, I shut down some folding so that I'm not using electric which is producing heat and then using more electric to combat that heat. Keeping in mind that we have a SEER7 AC unit. (That ain't great.) However... My farm in the basement decieded to just randomly help by shutting itself down.
While producing 0 ppd will help reduce my costs, it was far from my intention. Yesterday after work, I went and restarted my farm. My main rig has 2 x 3080 and a 3060. The F@H client says that they are all disabled. I've had this issue two other times and the last time it just fixed itself. So in frustration, I turned off the monitor and left it. We'll see how long it takes to work itself back into full running condition or... the weekend is coming so I could just look at the issue.
Oh. The issue that caused these very high (several hundreds of dollars above normal) bills for two months straight? The AC was running 24/7 but the 50A 240v breaker was meting supply lines. Paid a couple hundred bucks to get that fixed an all should be back to normal.
I'm looking forward to getting a smart meter that I can check via my phone or computer. A few of my co-workers got them and I've been seeing the WiFi anttenas along the road. Good stuff.
For reference:
* https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/pali.html
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What great taste you have in GPU's.
