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I ordered a new board that will be delivered here Monday while I wait for the RMA to take shape. This is the second Gigabyte product I've had issues with this year. One of my 980 Ti's is a Gigabyte Windforce and so far two of the fans have died on it. Got a couple 120mm fans blowing over the GPU's heatsink because I don't care enough to RMA it.

I probably wont hear from Gigabyte on whether or not they'll RMA it until Monday since they're closed on the weekend.

All my rigs run W7 though.
 
MGMCCALLEY said:
I'd stay away from Windows 10 ... If so, I'd highly recommend going back to 7,
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7 is ok, if it in "CentOS 7". :cool:

If you have a dedicated folding rig and not actively play with OC settings I would give Linux a chance. After a small learning curve you enjoy a more stable system and higher points, :)
 
ChristianVirtual said:
7 is ok, if it in "CentOS 7". :cool:

If you have a dedicated folding rig and not actively play with OC settings I would give Linux a chance. After a small learning curve you enjoy a more stable system and higher points, :)
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Unfortunately they are only dedicated until they are sold. Most of my customers are looking for Windows computers, so when they are eventually sold, they're ready to go when the customer wants them without any further modifications. And yes, I do sell used gaming rigs to customers. They know exactly what they're getting and get a discount for all of the used hardware. Many see it as a benefit that it's already "soak
tested" for weeks or months before they get it so they know it's stable. Otherwise yeah, I'd be running Linux on them for the extra points.

Skillz, sorry about the bad mobos. I've only had a couple of Gigabyte video cards, older Windforce editions, and they were still running perfectly at year 4. Don't know if they're trying to reduce quality in order to get more revenue, but I've had WAY better luck with their motherboards than Asus or other brands.
 
I was wondering what was going on with your production. Hope the move is easy and no issue.
 
If the name really bother you too much: change it ... I have left my other ego with 225m Points in a different donor&team. Soon I will catch up that.

Yes, you "loose" some points, have to suffer for 10 WU to qualify a new passkey.

Or you keep you passkey and just use with a new donor ID; on the official stats site you could see you combined points when using passkey as search; in EOC sure you can't ... I missed that chance when I changed.

You still have the qualification for donor/passkey combo though ... (Maybe reconfirmed in FF)
 
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HAF72 said:
Never thought since I joined in 2007 that I would end up in the top 20 producers(not even folding 24x7, yet) :D

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Excuse my name, created that name in 2007 and can't change usernames in fah :(
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I'm number 4 right now with a 1,712,712 PPD average.....I have been folding since 2004 and can remember when a really good day was about 500 PPD ...:wideyed:
 
Shit, I remember back in the very, very early 2000s when getting over 100 PPD was a huge feat. I think I used to get around 15 to 20 PPD back then. Folding on two rigs. P3 933Mhz and an Athlon 1Ghz. That was back when I was on my gaming communities team. I also remember back when the PS3 was launched and it used to get right over 1k PPD and was crushing it. I had 3 - 4 systems running 24/7 and a single PS3 would destroy my numbers.
 
I'm really hoping the 1080 Ti pulls 1 million PPD per card. I'm getting about 500k on each 980 Ti with no mods in Windows with the occasional reboot. Some estimates put the 1080 Ti at double that performance, or close to it. I'm kind of disappointed that the HBM2 memory is only making it to the Titans, though. I was really looking forward to seeing what a mainstream NVidia card could have done with that memory. Either way I'll probably get a couple after they work the bugs out. I'd really love to see if I could double my PPD with a single rig.
 
New motherboard arrived from Amazon. Was a used board apparently. I requested a full refund and I am shipping that bitch back. Ordered a new one from Newegg instead, should be here Friday. Kind of pissed off at the moment.

Gives me time to move all my rigs to a single, closed off room above the garage though with more than one Window on different walls. I intend to block off the AC vents in the room and let the dedicated folders run 24/7 so I can turn my AC on. It's get AF in here.
 
Skillz said:
New motherboard arrived from Amazon. Was a used board apparently. I requested a full refund and I am shipping that bitch back. Ordered a new one from Newegg instead, should be here Friday. Kind of pissed off at the moment.

Gives me time to move all my rigs to a single, closed off room above the garage though with more than one Window on different walls. I intend to block off the AC vents in the room and let the dedicated folders run 24/7 so I can turn my AC on. It's get AF in here.
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Was it Amazon as the seller, or a third party seller on Amazon? I've had trouble buying from lots of third-party Amazon sellers recently. It's pretty much to the point I buy from Amazon itself or Newegg if I want new, or Ebay if I want used hardware.

Why not get a free-standing AC unit with an evac hose? They're pretty easy to move around if you change your mind, and most come with window kits so you can get rid of the heat without worrying about leaving your windows open and risking rain/wind/debris damage to your rigs.
 
You're right. It wasn't Amazon, but one of their third party vendors. Will be shipping the motherboard back tomorrow on my lunch break. Amazon was out at the time I placed the other hoping I was going to get it Monday, but it wasn't delivered until Tuesday. Last night I checked it out and tomorrow I will be shipping it back.

The main reason I am moving those boxen to a "closed off" room is so that my HVAC system doesn't have to work overtime to compensate for the heat they'll be dumping into the house. I can't imagine one of those free-standing AC units would be cheaper to use than just making my HVAC system pick up the slack. Maybe I am wrong though.
 
Given that I have a rather old and drafty house, it was definitely more efficient for me to run the AC separately for that smaller space (that runs all the time) and leave the house AC to run intermittently when the rest of the house needed it. The alternative was to freeze out the rest of the rooms just to keep that one room below 80.

I picked this unit because of it's relative quiet running compared to most, and it was pretty low priced, and it had a single hose for exchange. The ones that have two may be more efficient, but it's a pain running two hoses IMO. Amazon.com: Honeywell MN10CESWW 10,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner with Remote Control - White: Home & Kitchen

I think I read somewhere that it's about 3500 BTU production from 1000 watts of heat. So a 10,000 BTU AC unit could remove 2,500 watts of heat production, give or take depending on the environment, air flow, etc. Unless you've got more rigs than you're letting on, that unit might be able to cool everything, even on a hot day. It's what I use to cool a small room with 6 rigs running 24/7 with most of my video cards in those rigs.
 
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Dang, that's the same unit I was just looking at. How often do you empty water?

I've got enough folding power that I have to run all my rigs on two separate breakers so I don't trip them. So they're technically spread out between two rooms (not including my nas, htpc and main rig), but I could always just run an extension cord into that room from one of the other rooms to power the 4-way rig and another extension cord from another room to power the AC.

I think I might look into doing this.
 
I don't empty the water. It has an auto-evaporative system. You can connect a drain if you'd rather, but I didn't. I have yet to empty anything after months of operation, but in an extremely humid environment you may have to use the drain or empty the bucket. They do scale up in BTU, so if you need more, buy the bigger unit.
 
Crosshairs said:
I'm not saying just yet..:)
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This one ?


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MGMCCALLEY said:
I'm really hoping the 1080 Ti pulls 1 million PPD per card.
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I remember breaking the 1M PPD barrier with my quad E5-4650 rigs (thanks to tear). Now those rigs are basically useless for folding so they're crunching BOINC POEM@Home and WCG. Those rigs had about $15K in just the CPUs. :D
 
plext0r said:
I remember breaking the 1M PPD barrier with my quad E5-4650 rigs (thanks to tear). Now those rigs are basically useless for folding so they're crunching BOINC POEM@Home and WCG. Those rigs had about $15K in just the CPUs. :D
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Which is why I could never get into the 4P game. Much harder to resell and the value drops so quickly. You can get 4 of those now for about $2k. I was always jealous of that gear, I have to say. I'm small-time on the server side, but my company (just me) just got into the HealthIT game so I can afford some GPUs for F@H. Yeah I remember when Tear and Musky were breaking records with those 4P rigs. Heck, I've seen the term "Musky Mod" on about 5 different web sites. Seems like it wasn't that long ago, but that's the computer world for you. My 980 Tis just dropped down to about $400 from the $600-$650 I bought them for just a few months ago. Oh well, I figure if I sell two of them and buy one 1080 Ti to replace them I'm even on points and use less juice and almost break even.

Congrats on the nom by the way, looks like you're a shoo-in for another DCOTM award. ;)
 
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Crosshairs said:
The mowing should begin shortly...:)
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo <grap for air> oooooooooooooooooooooooo

Isn't there a forum rule that forbids YOU to mow ME?

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Yes, I found one ( The [H]ard|FORUM Rules )
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(42) In distributed computing user Crosshairs isn't allowed to mow ChristianVirtual.
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See, you can't do that ... You can't ...

If you going to violate this simple rule my only countermeasure is to tip my hat to you (y)

(And waiting for the almighty 1080Ti to come to me)
 
But now tell me ... what is mowing me ? :nailbiting:
Hopefully not an AMD card ... at least I hope to get mowed "in Green" ... :D
 
I just passed the 20 million mark. I've been folding for a while, but just on a single rig, so it's taken a while.

As a side note, I just upgraded my GPU to an RX 480 (sapphire nitro) and am only folding on that. If you look at team 24h averages, I am 21st on our team. I find this kinda sad because if you go to the video cards forum, it seems like every other poster has a new RX 480, 1060, 1070, or 1080. Hardly any of them must be folding on their GPUs (at least for our team). I'm still gaming on my GPU sometimes and only fold when I'm not using my system, so it's not even a dedicated folder. Yet I'm still 21st in current production on our team.
 
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