Dude, just run it full out anyway! Forget the throttling, because we're also trying to CRUSH the 1 Billion point barrier.
 
My current estimates have us posting around 1,250,000,000 for the month, but if we unleash the beasts, we should be able to get MUCH higher!!

3/16/13

• The points have been reset and the first head to head round is underway! 
  
  • FAHaholics Anonymous vs Insaniacs
  • Fast and Furious Folders vs Fanatical Folders
  • Protein Prophets vs FoldCo
  • F@Holding Pimps vs Crunching Tigers Folding Dragons
• If any team has a folder that has stopped producing, please let me know via PM.
  • chris619 has been removed from the contest and his points replaced. 
• The round will end midnight (Eastern Time Zone) on Saturday 3/23/13.
• We've put up some very impressive numbers so far in the first two weeks:
  • Hit a 40 million point day 4 times so far, with a highest day of 40,787,856.  Anyone want to go for 41?
  • Nearly 570 million points in the first 15 days, well on our way to 1 billion points.  If we keep pumping out those points, 1.1 billion is within our grasp, but I think 1.2 billion might be out of reach (although, I've said such things before and been proven wrong time and time again by the amazing efforts of this team).
  • Outproduced [H] by 40 million points so far in the month of March.    Can we make it to 100 million by the end of the month? 
  • Around 40 more active folders than at our peak last month!  More than 140 more active folders than at our lowest point last month! 
  • Wherever we end up at the end of the month...the work this team is doing is extremely impressive!    And at the end of the day we're all winning...
• As always, please send along any suggestions or anything else you would like to see in the contest.

Extremely happy that people are enjoying it.  Seeing our team have a bit of fun and bond, watching our production spike, seeing [H] slowly realize we're comin for 'em - that's what makes it all worthwhile.
 
After last year I wasn't sure the contest was worth continuing.  A part of that is certainly my fault.  I'm not infallible, but always strive to improve things.  I'd like to think the new points system has something to do with it (which has taken more than 2 years of development), but it could just be that everyone participating this year knows the ultimate reason why we are here and why we fold - to do science and cure diseases! 
 
Either way, we're putting up incredibly impressive numbers, makin those WUs hurt, and takin it to [H].  Fold on!

Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of folding, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against overtake, still less against serious raids, could have been given EVGA Folding. In the days of [H], of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried their rigs across the internet might have driven away the other folding teams. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befouled the imaginations of many folding tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous maneuver. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye. We must never forget the solid assurances of CPU power and those which belong to GPU power if it can be locally exercised.

I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our team name, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of folding tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of EVGA Folding — every man of them. That is the will of EVGA and the folding nation. The team members of EVGA Folding and EVGA Crunching, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their folding of work units, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large threads of the Forums and many old and famous help guides have fallen or may fall into the grip of the other folding teams and all the odious apparatus of tyrannical folder's rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in cyberspace, we shall fight on the CPU and GPU, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the QRB, we shall defend our team, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the -bigadv, we shall fight on the SMP, we shall fight in the GPU3 and in the GPU2, we shall fight in the uniprocessor; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this team or a large part of it were subjugated and starving of -bigadv WU's, then our allies of other teams, armed and guarded by the EVGA Folders, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the smaller folders, with all their computing power and might, step forth to the rescue and the liberation of the EVGA Folders.

 

Bloody brilliant, Troy!

My evil plain is working! mahahahahahamahahaha

Mine are doing the same!! Keeping my room extra warm.

3/18/13

• A big thank you to everyone that has donated anything to the gift pool so far, the generosity of this community never ceases to amaze!
• The last day to donate a gift to be given away at the end of the contest will be Saturday March 23.  No donations can be accepted after this date.
• The gift selection/ranking process will begin Sunday March 24 and end on Saturday March 30.
• The drawing will take place Sunday March 31 with distribution to be arranged between winners and donors individually thereafter.

On the bright side, the four additional mugs I ordered from Cochise are on their way!  So... ya know get out there and fold you crazy peoples you!

Something folks voted on... AB had a thread in the sticky section.  I voted against this sort of thing  but as is always the case, the majority won.
 
I would've dropped out of the contest because I really don't like it when things change or are added during a contest such as this. 
 
The only reason why I haven't dropped out is two-fold.  
 
1.  I signed up for this thing and even if they did change things around to include a second contest, I'm still willing to help albeit I do not at this point consider myself on a team or in the contest anymore.
2.  I'm willing to push for a billion just to see if the team can do it.
 
If it hadn't been for my above reasoning, I'd gladly shut down my rigs and get back to crunching where our team is falling behind.

Hmmm... I think my machine stopped folding... that's gonna hurt!

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Hmmm... I think my machine stopped folding... that's gonna hurt!

I just got home and everything is down.
Looks like we had a power failure of a couple hours in duration.  Maybe the 14 inches of wet heavy snow had something to do with it. They said we were going to get 6.

Double ouch!  Sorry to hear that!

This contest really needs to be ran in Jan or Feb its just to hot here in the south for these contest.
I will not be able to be in the CC next month if this is any indication of how hot the weather will be here.

Probably didn't understand them then... Sorry if I'm confused.  It happens when you get older.
 
Ah... found the problem, I look under rules for the rules of the contest.  I read them... what I missed is the contest format... which is different in my mind from the rules.  My bad.