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Call to Help F@H With A Challenge

El Fiendo

El Fiendo

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Techpowerup's F@H team has been hounded for awhile persistently by a well rounded out team from the north called Hardware Canucks. We've been occasionally trading places in terms of higher PPD production over the past months, but right now that looks set to change. I figure its best I not mince words on this, so I'm going to be blunt and to the point. We need your help and we need it bad.

I have absolute faith that if we had all our rigs at 100% and our inactive folders back, with disregard to summer heat, that we could lick them. Unfortunately challenges rarely come when we choose. On top of that they're mobilizing their forces faster than we can keep up. While we do have members stepping up their game, I fear it won't be enough to stay ahead. So, I've come here to plead with anyone who hasn't set up their GPUs to fold to please reconsider doing so in light of this challenge. We'd be glad to provide any and all help required obviously, we just need the able bodies to help.

In short:

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Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.
 
I could not have said it better. This is a real issue for us and we are asking for your help. Feel free to PM myself or El Fiendo if you need help setting the client(s).
 
I'm back to folding again! I started a couple nights ago and have been going full force!
Btw, how do you set your GPU up to fold? I only found it for the cpu...or am I missing something? lol
 
I'll send a PM with detailed information.
 
Nicely Put........WCG team-If you have GPU's that you are not currently using, let us borrow and use that power until this ordeal is over.;):D
 
8800GTS 320MB will be up as soon as Paulieg gets it to me, and while I'm at it, I'll fix all my SMP clients so they are folding again with the drop in update. They've been down since the update came out, and I haven't had a chance to get over to fix them, but will when I'm setting up the card.

Also, I've got plenty of machines with open PCI-E x16 slots, so if people want to send me anything that is capable of folding, I'll throw them in the machines and get them up and running. I can't afford to pay for the hardware right now, but I can afford to run them(I don't pay for the electricity at my offices :)).
 
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Newtekie is coming out of retirement:rockout::toast:
 
Thanks guys. Newtekie I'll update your status in the status thread.

Hey, want to buy your 9800GTXs back at a reduced cost? Seeming you have them registered and I'm looking to get GTX 260s in their place, we could work a deal. I'd even send these to you and get payment whenever you were good for it / ready to pay.
 
Alright. Got my card a rollin! Overclocked as well, if that makes a difference.
 
Every little bit helps right now. Thank you... uhh Cheesy? What do you prefer for nicknames? A Cheese Danish is rather unwieldy in conversation.
 
El Fiendo said:
Every little bit helps right now. Thank you... uhh Cheesy? What do you prefer for nicknames? A Cheese Danish is rather unwieldy in conversation.
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haha that it is. I would say Danish, but then DanishDevil is called that, so yeah, Cheese or Cheesy works
 
Well guys, since I helped get you into this bind I guess I should help you get out of it. :rolleyes: I admit that until a couple of months ago I was a member of the HWC team (stats).

To help out, I've switched both my 9800GX2 cards over to TPU; should start showing work units tonight. :)
 
As soon as I come back from camping next monday, I'll have 3 i7 rigs up, all with a gtx260. They will all be folding 24/7.
 
Thanks guys, so far with your help TPU is pulling 519000 in 24 hours. The downside is Hardware Cancucks is currently pulling 606000 in 24 hours. Thank you very much to the people who've already started lending a hand, but looking at these numbers we will need more.
 
Got one 8800GT going now, will have another going when i get it sorted.

Im back, baby
 
Well it's not much but I put my 9600gt back to folding.. I'll also, fold with my gtx285 at night.

Oh and i never gave anyone an update on that 9800gtx2 card i was going to buy.. The very next week, it burnt out on him.. Oh well better him than me.. hehehe
 
I can probably double my current output in the short term, with some more hardware thrown at it in a week or two.

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El Fiendo said:
Thanks guys. Newtekie I'll update your status in the status thread.

Hey, want to buy your 9800GTXs back at a reduced cost? Seeming you have them registered and I'm looking to get GTX 260s in their place, we could work a deal. I'd even send these to you and get payment whenever you were good for it / ready to pay.
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Very tempting, but I am completely strapped for cash right now, and I hate owing people.

I'm still trying to get the cash together to upgrade my 4200+ to a quad-core...
 
Oo, I simultaneously sent you a PM. We can take it up there.


Thank you everyone for continuing to answer the call. Keep it up guys.
 
:rockout:Got another card running a 9600 gso but every little bit helps:rockout:
 
9600gso are actually very good cards for folding due to thier shear power (lots of shaders but not a lot of memory... but memory doesn't really bother F@H much) and expendability (price)
 
bogmali said:
Nicely Put........WCG team-If you have GPU's that you are not currently using, let us borrow and use that power until this ordeal is over.;):D
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I have a PNY 9600 GSO 768MB card that I can loan/donate. :roll:

Moved my last card over from the PNY team, an 8800GT. With my 2 9800GX2's I should be putting out 18k-20k PPD soon.
 
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This is why I don't fold. I'm on HWC forum also If I pick one team the other is not happy :p. Sucks though because I do have this 9600GSO with 96sp to fold with
 
Moved my last card over from PNY, an 8800GT. With my 2 9800GX2's I should be putting out 18K-20K PPD soon.
 
dhoshaw said:
Moved my last card over from PNY, an 8800GT. With my 2 9800GX2's I should be putting out 18K-20K PPD soon.
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dhoshaw, that's awesome. Thanks for switching to TPU!!!

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