Mowing over high PPD folders from yesteryear

3 Billion points baby!


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SmokeRngs said:
You should have watched Mauler's 17.5 hour video tearing that game a new one instead of playing it. Not only would you have kept the points it would have been much more entertaining. :p
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I should add that I gained about 1 million PPD by offsetting the votlage to -80mV after watching Du8auers OC video for the 9070XT
 
MrGuvernment said:
Crazy to move up so quickly past so many inactive people and just folding again to try things out before Jan event...
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It is a lot easier to mow over the old timers now because we were getting peanut points back then folding on CPUs! Nevermind those SR2 mobo setups that blew everyone away, then Opterons entered the mix, then GPUs and since CUDA, millions and billions of points!

Edit: Ooh, I see that I am in 14th place for PPD for last 24 hours!
 
Agent_N said:
It is a lot easier to mow over the old timers now because we were getting peanut points back then folding on CPUs! Nevermind those SR2 mobo setups that blew everyone away, then Opterons entered the mix, then GPUs and since CUDA, millions and billions of points!
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Correct. The standard for points allocation was benchmarked on a Pentium 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. This was pre-hyperthreading so everything is phenominally faster now. Geez I remember feeling so impactful when I had my 1090T overclocked to 4 Ghz all core folding and surpassing 30K PPD! Those were the days. I don't mean to diminish anyone's PPD or overall points but I felt a sense of accomplishment when I went over 100K WU's, more so than when I crossed over 4B points. Just look at beekeeper with over 470K WU's! He's a legend and prob still doing some CPU crunching. I would too if the power bill wasn't so high. I hope you keep 'trying things out' til the challenge MrGuvernment
 
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Toconator said:
Geez I remember feeling so impactful when I had my 1090T overclocked to 4 Ghz all core folding and surpassing 30K PPD! Those were the days.
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I remember around 2012 using a GTX 480 to get around 50K PPD, which considering a 9500 GT and PS3 would get around 1500 PPD, seemed so amazing.
Granted that the work units were much smaller back then compared to now, but those certainly were the days!
 
Agent_N said:
It is a lot easier to mow over the old timers now because we were getting peanut points back then folding on CPUs! Nevermind those SR2 mobo setups that blew everyone away, then Opterons entered the mix, then GPUs and since CUDA, millions and billions of points!

Edit: Ooh, I see that I am in 14th place for PPD for last 24 hours!
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Exactly, back when I would fold with my Pentium 4 Northwood C over clocked for overclockers.com, seemed like the numbers barely moved :D
 
Red Falcon said:
I remember around 2012 using a GTX 480 to get around 50K PPD, which considering a 9500 GT and PS3 would get around 1500 PPD, seemed so amazing.
Granted that the work units were much smaller back then compared to now, but those certainly were the days!
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I contemplated getting a PS3 for moar PPD but I couldn't really afford it at the time, so I waited, then got an Athon x3 455 system a few years later, then added a GTX 460 which put out a lot more points. It was exciting to break 20k PPD with that system!
 
It is also amazing to see the prices of hardware today and what they are capable of back then compared to now in relation to other products on the market. Nobody in their right mind would want to hack a PS5 solely to run FAH or any other DC project on today compared to the same price point hardware that is already out there and the results you would get from it. I remember when the first XBox came out and people were buying them because they were considered "cheap" Linux PC's after mods.
 
Duke Nukem 3D was probably the best, but I liked this one:
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And you didn't even need one of these to play it....
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but man, having that thing sticking out of your beige-box would look awesome.

I just re-read some of the fine print. Even back then we were worried about shipping tech to China.
 
jfb9301 said:
Duke Nukem 3D was probably the best, but I liked this one:



And you didn't even need one of these to play it....


but man, having that thing sticking out of your beige-box would look awesome.

I just re-read some of the fine print. Even back then we were worried about shipping tech to China.
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Oh man, "Bungholiomarks" brings back memories!

I try to be polite with the trash talking because it is all in good fun, or at least it should be IMHO
 
Threat radar remains clear......

if any of you youngsters come for me, I'm not building an anti-mowing shelter.... I'm buying one of these

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As it is, I'm toying with the idea of upgrading my RTX5070ti rig to 64GB of DDR5 to unlock the beta WUs. Also I still have my RTX3070 shutdown, I use that one as a winter space heater.
 
jfb9301 said:
Threat radar remains clear......

if any of you youngsters come for me, I'm not building an anti-mowing shelter.... I'm buying one of these

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As it is, I'm toying with the idea of upgrading my RTX5070ti rig to 64GB of DDR5 to unlock the beta WUs. Also I still have my RTX3070 shutdown, I use that one as a winter space heater.
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Youngsters?! How old are you?
 
Fluxmaven said:
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I'd like to take a moment to remember my good friend firedfly
RIP in peace

If we bully him enough, he might prioritize getting the folding rig back together
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firedfly's boss: "Hello Peter, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up."

Maybe he decided to tell his boss that he cannot work on Saturday or Sunday so now he has no paycheck to keep F@H farm running!

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Agent_N said:
firedfly's boss: "Hello Peter, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up."

Maybe he decided to tell his boss that he cannot work on Saturday or Sunday so now he has no paycheck to keep F@H farm running!
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The folding farm along with most other computer stuff is in storage while remodeling. However, I'm sure he has enough credits in his Vast.ai account to shut me up for a while if he really wanted to. He'll either slap everything back together for the annual bigadv comp, or it'll still be in storage next time I make a trip down to visit and I'll end up working on it.
 
Agent_N said:
I'm no youngster at 47, but not as comfortably Gen X as you are!
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You were still in high school when I did my first nuclear reactor startup..... though you at least were born. I have one reactor operator co-worker (if you can call him that, he doesn't do much work) who wasn't even born last century.
 
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