Help fight cancer with F@H! join team ECF today!!!!!!

[Bovinia]

Nice, I haven't looked at the stats today. I had to shut down for a little while due to thunderstorms rolling thru my area.

There has always been a pay it forward attitude here on ECF, and I'm happy to have been a small part of it for the last 3 years

 

[Natey]

Hey Bov, i hear you about the T Storms, we got hammered.... I love to watch the lightning and listen to the thunder, seeing it pour makes me feel at ease as mother nature cleanses everything...

I just want to say thank you to each and every one of you F@H for your own stats or CAC, whatever it is all goes into the same pot and im truly grateful. But i have to say lately I'm seeing a rise in Folding here and it makes me feel highly supported by the community here, in such a hard time I'm in, and everyone else in this world suffering from Cancer. Keep up the great work as it really keeps my Faith up... Your all very important for sparing your CPU's & GPU's for the cause...

 

[Bovinia]

We were spared the worst of the storms here, most of the severe weather went north and south of us.

Watching the terrible fires in NJ, and the flooding in Colorado hurts my heart. I hope that all of our folders and members are safe!

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Hey Bov, i hear you about the T Storms, we got hammered.... I love to watch the lightning and listen to the thunder, seeing it pour makes me feel at ease as mother nature cleanses everything...

Nothing beats relaxing on the back porch and having a (non severe) thunderstorm roll through. Beautiful to watch, soothing to listen and the smell of the rain just chills you out from all of life's issues for a while. Wish we were not in a dry period. Hopefully fall weather will be upon us soon and the 90 degree days will fade gently in to the 70s and rain, let it rain! Those are my favorite days for chilling out, vaping on the back porch with the wife and a nice bottle of wine (you just know I add to add that part...right? ).

 

[Bovinia]

J, you are so right about the smell of a gentle rain! Love it I don't have a covered porch here, but I did sit on the back steps until I got too wet and the lightning got too close.

I'm working on another core 15 wu...no bonus points for those. They also run my gpu close to 10 degrees hotter...pfftt!

 

[Dusther]

Yeah I love to go out on the back screen porch and lay on the futon for a nap when it is raining.

Rank 97 now way to go teamECF

 

[ThreeDJ16]

J, you are so right about the smell of a gentle rain! Love it I don't have a covered porch here, but I did sit on the back steps until I got too wet and the lightning got too close.

I'm working on another core 15 wu...no bonus points for those. They also run my gpu close to 10 degrees hotter...pfftt!

Wish I could figure out more about how to track that stuff and understand the terms. Can't tell really how many my puter is doing under the CAC account. Not that it matters since it is for the team. Just curious how efficient it is at spitting out bits and bytes. And yeah, sorry but I had to back my processors down a tad as it was literally a heater in our room (~140F+ at the core and 6 or 7 fans blasting). With 90+ days, it was killing us. There is already a plasma big screen in the same room and we were calling it our sauna instead of our home theater room.

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Yeah I love to go out on the back screen porch and lay on the futon for a nap when it is raining.

Rank 97 now way to go teamECF

Dude that is awesome. I so badly want a hammock on mine, but not enough room unless I kick the wife off...hehe. Though supposed I could just float on all the freakn mosquitos out there for a while. Luckily they don't like me vaping. Maybe I need to vape citronella too....hahaha....yuck.

 

[MrGimp]

Mrgimp is on the team

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk 4

 

[Bovinia]

Welcome MrGimp!

 

[Grubworm]

23 yr survivor need a new computer. Need help with what I need for folding, my present computer is 13 yrs old. CPU or GPU which is best? Power consumption is important. Lost wife to breast cancer 13 yrs ago. This is important to me. Thanks for any help or information.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Dusther]

Hey Grub welcome to the team.

On a build it really depends on 2 things mainly your budget range and skill level on building a system. If building the system you can get a whole lot more for the buck then if you bought one that is already put together. IMO Gpu is where the best bang for buck is right now.

 

[Grubworm]

Price is important 1 card maybe had second later but need a system that will last longer then is normal.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Grubworm]

Thank for the help dusther

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Dusther]

Grubworm are you comfortable building a system from the ground up or is your comfy zone on a prebuilt system?

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Wow, four posts during my slow typing.

First sorry for your loss and understand the personal importance. I am sure a much more qualified person for folding will be along shortly (and already has now). But just a question that may help. Are you buying or building a new computer for your CPU upgrade or wanting to just try and upgrade your existing cpu or add a new graphics card? Not sure if either of the upgrade paths are still possible except in the used market (different sockets for CPU and slots for GPU). While I have not keep up with newer generation graphics cards, I am guessing most modern cards now use newer card slot formats (older to newer ISA, AGP, PCI, PCI express (1,2,3)). At 13 years old, I am guessing maybe AGP. Probably can get a good deal used, but don't know if they still make them. But if you're getting a new computer, then the newer GPU are exponentially more powerful.

Just from what I have gleamed here, seems like they like a GPU for folding since it has more cores. But since I only have one graphics card, F@H on the GPU pauses every time I am on the computer (or mainly wife). Need to read if their is a way around that.

Anyway, I maybe wrong, but just giving a try here. I also don't build my computers very often as mine usually suffice for many years. So I am not up on any newer technologies. Besides, I am usually reprimanded to the laptop while my wife surfs the net on a computer 100s of times more capable than what she needs.....oh well.

-=J

 

[Grubworm]

I love ground up builds. The one I have now is my build

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Grubworm]

Things have changed so much don't know where to start.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2

 

[Miggity]

Sorry, apparently this is the wrong thread for offering folding gear for sale.

Thanks for the quote two posts lower.

Here's to Drunk_J.

 

[ThreeDJ16]

Not advertising here or nothing, but Tiger Direct usually has some good bare bones systems pretty reasonable. Makes figuring out what goes with what much simpler. Comes with almost everything. Might want a separate G-card verses a MB built in for more powerful folding.....not sure....defer to the experts on that question. But guessing it should be true.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=31&name=Barebone-Kits

-=J