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[Ion]
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| System Name | Niedersachsen / Ribe / Minsk |
|---|---|
| Processor | i3 3240 / i7-3520M / 4x Opteron 6376 @ 2.86GHz |
| Motherboard | BIOSTAR H61M / HP Q77 / Supermicro H8QG7 |
| Cooling | Stock / Stock / 4x 1U G34 |
| Memory | 1x8GB / 2x4GB / 4x4GB |
| Video Card(s) | GTX260 / Intel HD 4000 / nVidia GT310 |
| Storage | 80GB Intel SSD / 256GB Intel SSD / 2x 60GB SSD (RAID1) |
| Display(s) | Dell 3007 + HP 2245w / 12.1" 1366x768 / None |
| Case | Antec NSK3480 / HP / Supermicro 1U |
| Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
| Power Supply | Enermax 500W / HP 130W / Supermicro Gold 1400W |
| Keyboard | IBM Model M |
| Software | Windows 7 (Niedersachsen/Ribe) / Linux Mint 17.2 (Minsk) |
Hey Team! I'm excited to announce that a new Team Challenge is in the works! This is my first time running a competition, so I'd like your input for the process! My current plan is to start the challenge either the first or second week of February (perhaps either the 6th or the 12th) and then let it run for the remainder of the month. Half-way through we would have a game giveaway as before. I have an AMD Never Settle game coupon and an AMD Nexuiz coupon that I'd be putting up for grabs there.
I'm going to see if I can get Chicken Patty to put up an announcement a few days before we start--hopefully we can recruit some new members that way.
While a competition where everyone throws in what they can is fun, prizes are all the better. In addition to the game giveaway, I'm hoping to have some more tangible prizes like in our last big event. I'm willing to offer up one or two cash (PayPal, really) prizes--probably something on the order of $20-25 each. I'm also willing to offer up spare hardware that I have. In terms of hardware prizes, I can offer up hard drives (a couple, probably), DDR2 RAM, and LGA775 CPUs. I may be willing to offer a full system--probably a Core 2 Duo-class system. Obviously, these aren't the greatest prizes, so I would love contributions. If you have hardware (or cash) that you'd be willing to donate, it would be greatly appreciated--just send a PM my way!
As far as the requirements go, the plan was to run for either two or three weeks. I'm thinking of requiring hopeful entrants to turn in points (as reported by Free-DC, unless errors crop up) at least half of the days during the contest. I was thinking that I'd also aim for a small minimum requirement in terms of points completed--maybe ten or fifteen thousand points over the course of the event. The introduction of the GPU WUs has admittedly complicated things a bit here--a HD7950 can do this in five hours, but I don't want to discount the contributions of volunteers just running a Core 2 Duo. If I can figure out a way to do it, I'm thinking of a runtime requirement instead.
I'm going to see if there's an official WCG competition that we can participate in during this event--something that will go on our permanent record should be an inspiration to crunch harder
It's a pleasure crunching with all of you, and I'd love your input so that we can make this competition as much fun as possible!
And because we can never have enough landscapes, Moraine Lake:
Prizes accumulated thus far:
The competition has now been announced on AnandTech and XtremeSystems--I'm hopeful that we can get a variety of other teams to join us
I'm going to see if I can get Chicken Patty to put up an announcement a few days before we start--hopefully we can recruit some new members that way.
While a competition where everyone throws in what they can is fun, prizes are all the better. In addition to the game giveaway, I'm hoping to have some more tangible prizes like in our last big event. I'm willing to offer up one or two cash (PayPal, really) prizes--probably something on the order of $20-25 each. I'm also willing to offer up spare hardware that I have. In terms of hardware prizes, I can offer up hard drives (a couple, probably), DDR2 RAM, and LGA775 CPUs. I may be willing to offer a full system--probably a Core 2 Duo-class system. Obviously, these aren't the greatest prizes, so I would love contributions. If you have hardware (or cash) that you'd be willing to donate, it would be greatly appreciated--just send a PM my way!
As far as the requirements go, the plan was to run for either two or three weeks. I'm thinking of requiring hopeful entrants to turn in points (as reported by Free-DC, unless errors crop up) at least half of the days during the contest. I was thinking that I'd also aim for a small minimum requirement in terms of points completed--maybe ten or fifteen thousand points over the course of the event. The introduction of the GPU WUs has admittedly complicated things a bit here--a HD7950 can do this in five hours, but I don't want to discount the contributions of volunteers just running a Core 2 Duo. If I can figure out a way to do it, I'm thinking of a runtime requirement instead.
I'm going to see if there's an official WCG competition that we can participate in during this event--something that will go on our permanent record should be an inspiration to crunch harder
It's a pleasure crunching with all of you, and I'd love your input so that we can make this competition as much fun as possible!
And because we can never have enough landscapes, Moraine Lake:
Prizes accumulated thus far:
- AMD Never Settle Game Promo (Ion)
- AMD Nexuiz Coupon (Ion)
- Misc DDR2 RAM, LGA775 CPUs, HDDs (Ion)
- 2x $20+ PayPal gifts (Ion)
- 2x Radeon HD7770 (mjkmike)
- i7-3930k (mjkmike)
- P9X79 Pro (mjkmike)
- Misc hardware (Mad Shot)
- $25 via PayPal (Bow)
The competition has now been announced on AnandTech and XtremeSystems--I'm hopeful that we can get a variety of other teams to join us
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Man, I got to get my systems all set up for this!!! I could really utilize a 7770 for one of the crunching rigs!
cheers to everyone thats donating stuff for this comp 
Holy Crap!!! Amazing donation from mjkmike!!! 