Mind If I Play Through?

[SmookinJoe]

Hi Fellow Folders
I thought I would help you guys a little in your efforts to help Folding@Home achieve it's goals.
I had embraced the idea before I joined Team EVGA. I started off with a Asus Z270 A (currently waiting for corrective Bios Surgery/Recovery due largely to a Windows 10 update!).
It was my first folding computer and it was my first real upgrade in a desktop computer since an Asus P5B

I showed you these two images to help you realize what an upgrade it was. 2006 till 2017 I had not upgraded my desktop.
(Anyone interested in paying $100 off current list price if I can save it?....KIDDING!)
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...ximus-viii-ranger.284375/page-15#post-5443018
It wasn't long before I realized GPU's provided more bang for the electrical buck than CPU's and before I knew it I had gotten to the point I had to shelve 2060 and 3080 GPU's due to better efficiency with Higher output GPU's...
Sold any Asus GPU's because they had to be RMA'd for fan issues. Sold My EVGA 2060's because they only did 2mppd.
EVGA extended all 3080 warranties (long past when I was allowed to!) and recently they sent me a complete set of fans (3 new fans) when a 3080 FTW3 had 2 fans giving me trouble.
IMHO.... EVGA has been an outstanding corporation leading the industry in how they did everything!
It is such a shame they felt they needed to tear the band-aid off when it came to deal with the forum....hard to comprehend...I don't owe them anything more than the respect I received.
This is a very short introduction to me...SmookinJoe...probably the one and only....How else was I to become unique when I too am a Smokin Joe in some circles.
I have started off this way to become familiar with you guys and let you know I am not an expert.
I know nothing!
I am Canadian Eh! as opposed to American unh?...That's gonna set some people off...
Hey I didn't vote Trudeau's son in as Prime Minister and I sure as heck didn't vote in Trump.......
Last great leader we had was Jean Chretien and he was Pierre Elliot Trudeau's bag man!
(If you didn't know Chretien and Clinton were great best friends and probably still are.)
Anyway...
The reason I am posting to let you know I have started folding for Techpowerup. I can only imagine the feelings I am stirring up just by starting to climb your leaderboard.
I don't want any of you to feel challenged by my being here. I am here to help Folding@home. On my NoN-AMD folding farm I have reliable equipment that run 24-7.
I don't know how long I will continue to do this and I don't know if I will buy a 5090.

Mind if I play through?

 

[Toothless]

I'm still trying to decode what this even is.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I'm still trying to decode what this even is.

Its a Canadian declaration of war.

The reason I am posting to let you know I have started folding for Techpowerup. I can only imagine the feelings I am stirring up just by starting to climb your leaderboard.
I don't want any of you to feel challenged by my being here. I am here to help Folding@home.

He seeks to subjugate and oppress the folding community here at TPU with his overpowered processing prowess.

 

[SmookinJoe]

Its a Canadian declaration of war.



He seeks to subjugate and oppress the folding community here at TPU with his overpowered processing prowess.

I found my first Tator...

Seems to be located in the Spectator section....Peanut gallery maybe?

Nice Avatar but, Are you even allowed to voice your opinion if you aren't a participant?
Think about it...
Either you do or you don't want to help?
I remember the wife was screaming at me "Your gonna get sprayed... Your gonna get sprayed"
as I was in the middle of rescuing a skunk wrapped up in a kids hockey net.
All I could say was, in a very gentle voice.
"Yer not helpin"
Why is that FreedomEclipse?
Why can't I find you on the Folding at home Stats page?

I'm still trying to decode what this even is.

Hi Toothless
Just sayin Hi
I am waiting for my crunchers to finish up before I can try and change over to the TPU team.
All the CPU's crunch but the GPU's focus on Folding at home.

 

[Steevo]

I too had a old machine till I upgraded, I ran a 1100T with a 7970Ghz with custom BIOS both under water in a machine that was almost 13 years old.

We can't be too far from each other, but I'm sure you get the coastal warm winds that bring precipitation and not the frigid Saskatoon winds. Glad to have you here, there is always room for a lost soul, we might not see eye to eye on some things but there is room around the campfire for all. Once upon a time I was a king of folding, back when I managed networks and single core CPU cycles were all we had. Now I'm reduced to my gaming machine helping heat a too large house and a dip in progress the few times I get to play games or do actual work on a overpriced space heater.

 

[SmookinJoe]

Yeah Steevo
I started in computers quite late.
After 1986 just after I bought my first house.
When I left New Brunswick for the last time, my goal was to try and buy my own home.
I had had a few adventures before I left for Calgary( to find myself and never look back)....
Toronto(half the family moved there but Ontario is not the center of the universe and is too full of it's self),
Montreal(for to visit a friend who had burned his bridge in New Brunswick..lol )
Too many great adventures and near misses to tell them all here..Now where was I?..

oh yeah....

Someone gave me a bunch of pirated games and an Atari..I think a Commadore 64..suddenly can't recall..I passed it on a few years later and got..a new..AMD 386.
Installed Dos 5 and discovered lots of great software to make it work way better than stock..Qemm, Stacker, etc..at least until the Borg(Microsoft) assimilated them.
Win 3.1, Wing Commander 1 & 2...Then Doom and Duke Nukem..Destroyed too many mice and mouse pads..L0L
Got into Chuck Yeager's Flight Sim
Then I just had to stop and focus on the real world..
Don't game anymore.
As I move into my Final chapter...I call it... My End of Life
I embrace things and try to find the good in them...keeping policies in place to justify painting outside the lines and keep others safe.
I drive tractor trailer for a living and will till the day I die..
(Self taught in a weekend in Calgary after getting a pep talk by my dispatcher sitting around a coffee table full of keys for every truck in the fleet at Hills Security Moving in Calgary while getting wasted)
I had a Z28 back when I was a kid in the early 70's and had a huge following...Mostly Police...
Recently I bought an end of life toy and it is a MONSTER that I try to tame
2009 X5 35d...E70
Try not to read too much into it...
I am only as good as others allow me to be..
I have cut people off...just in time for them to wave thanks..not the finger but a genuine rolled down window thumbs up.
I influence others in being better drivers by Leading by example and following by choice..
New Brunswick is a great place to be from...
I am living in what I feel is the best part of Canada (weather wise)
Lower mainland BC...I just discovered rust on my 2003 Dodge Cummins powered 1 ton..I bought it new for my 50th...
Now you know how old I am...
Thanks for saying Hi
Joe

PS...This doesn't come close to my life's story...but I have had the "Best day of my Life" more on that later