Chris21010
every avg you post pics of from extremeoverclocking is a 7 day avg. the only thing that is slightly relevant is that currently folding @ EVGA is ahead of Barnacules Nerdgasm by 4.6 million today. this however is day 2 of our monthly EVGA Bucks folding surge and will fall off some in a couple days. im just curious as to how long Barnacules Nerdgasm will be producing 125ish million per day, they are on track for 3 straight days.

I give it to many of them see their first electric bill after they start folding.

bill1024

Chris21010
every avg you post pics of from extremeoverclocking is a 7 day avg. the only thing that is slightly relevant is that currently folding @ EVGA is ahead of Barnacules Nerdgasm by 4.6 million today. this however is day 2 of our monthly EVGA Bucks folding surge and will fall off some in a couple days. im just curious as to how long Barnacules Nerdgasm will be producing 125ish million per day, they are on track for 3 straight days.

I give it to many of them see their first electric bill after they start folding.

i really don't see why this is as bad as it is. there are a lot of people that complain during the summer months when their A/C's are running and say that folding made their bill go up $100+, but that is just not accurate. after i the math i did to calculate the power usage and figure out how much my new 5 GPU folding rig would cost it came up to ~$80 a month, @ $0.21 per KWh. so divide that by 5 and you get $16 a month to run a 1070 FTW 24/7.

I guess it all depends on how much you fold on how much hardware.
I have seen many many people start folding all gunho, buy tons of hardware and then they stop folding.
Just because the new 10xx sips electric, out of 3200 new folders, I am sure many are not new, but still how many are folding on older hardware? We do not know.
When I am in full swing in the Winter I have 250+ cores crunching and several (4 to 7) GPUs either folding or BOINC GPUgrid.
This year mostly Maxwell since I got rid of my 660Ti cards and upgraded to GTX970 to 980Ti.
I like to run a lot of hardware to heat my house in the Winter, my electric bill does go up and it is more than 80$
I like to buy used hardwaare, I can buy more of it and why not put it to good use?
 
So time will tell. Give it a month or two or three and we will see how well they are still doing.
And 80$ a month is a lot of money to some people. Many live paycheck to paycheck

One computer at 500 watts 24/7 at 18 cents a KWH is 12kw a day x 30 days in a month is 360KWH
360KWH x 18 cents a KWH is $64.80
With an overclocked GPU and an overclocked CPU it is not hard to hit 500 watts.
 
I guesstamate 50$ a month to fold per system with one GPU and CPU folding or crunching.
I think it is a fair guess and as the GPUs get better and better it will be less. That is if electric stays the same price.
I doubt that though, Only seems to go up and up as we were promised it would a few years ago.
 
 

Chris21010
i was saying $80 per month for 5 GPU's, people living from pay check to paycheck should sell 4 of those GPU's. also if i am reading that link to CO power rates right it looks like $0.09 per KWh with a base rate of $6.75... that seems a little low but the state avg is about $0.12 so it may be correct for you.

 
Winter Early

 
Winter Late
 
 
Summer 

 
 
 
This Summer
 

Chris21010
One sec tech difficulties on cellphone.

Edit: woops my calculation was for the 4 1070's I had running at the time not for 5. So $20 per month for a 200W TDP GPU.

I also do not know where you got 500W from but that is enough to run two titans folding, no cpu folding.

Don't forget the GPU does not run all by itself.
A motherboard with sound, network, a few fans and a couple hard drives and PUS electric usage is right around 100 watts right there alone.
Add in the CPU and GPU, it add up.
 
 

Chris21010
ya and your GPU doesn't run at 100% TDP 24/7 either, more like 80-90% of TDP. so that alone is enough for all peripherals but again those will be drawing power as long as the PC is on, if you are folding or not. that is why i stick with just TDP of the GPU's folding as it represents the difference between folding or not folding, as my PC is already on 24/7.

Some of us do more then Just Fold.
Normal Usage: I have 5 Computers running But ONLY on the GPU they are each taking 820 Watts to 900 Watts.
Totaling of only 14 GPUs 6 980 3 Titans 3 780 and 2 R2 290X
 
PG going on now: I have 4 Computers running ONLY on the CPU they are each taking 460 Watts to 510 Watts.
I do not run GPUs while in an Event. 
Wattage & Usage Provided by UPS Units.
 

Alzheimers sucks too

toyking22
i dont see how we are loosing ?? i am looking at the folding @ home teams at http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&srt=3 and it says

evga 112,138,496 points 24 hour average as of 9am  (week 724,223,136)

nerdgasm is doing 80,391,701 24 hour average again as of 9am (week 562,741,906)

See PM

Sure, they are pulling in more points. But there is no point in worrying about it. They have a long way to go to catch up. And by then many of their number will have dropped off. Not to mention all the Winter folders on our team. Besides, the more folders in the world the better. It's nice to be number 1, but in the end the goal is to help research cures and every contribution counts.

ipkha
Sure, they are pulling in more points. But there is no point in worrying about it. They have a long way to go to catch up. And by then many of their number will have dropped off. Not to mention all the Winter folders on our team. Besides, the more folders in the world the better. It's nice to be number 1, but in the end the goal is to help research cures and every contribution counts.

+1 Hopefully one day there will no longer be cancer and the other horrible diseases....

It'll be interesting to see how they progress. QRB will start for them soon enough if they got pass keys. Also, some of the EVGA crew were folding for Bjorn3d and may not have switched back yet. Others are more active in the colder months and some just fold for the EVGA bucks and do Boinc crunching the rest of the month. This new team might get more EVGA folders back in the fold as it were.

just throwing it out there since it was brought up, my rig pulls 350-400 watts from the wall, GPU only folding, monitor included.
i pay just under $0.12/kwh, it doesnt add up to much for me.
I am glad we have some competition again, we dont want to be getting bored, now do we ;)

I'm not even playing right now, because I am away. My rig may be puny compared to my old rigs, but it still pumps out 1 mill ppd approximately.

Quite frankly, I am very happy to see a large video produce (lol, not talking about his waist size) encouraging people to attack cancer through folding. Barnacles and Jayztwocents have a good bit of people that follow their videos and shenanigans, so I gladly welcome the powerhouse of points no matter how short lived it is.

un4givn85
just throwing it out there since it was brought up, my rig pulls 350-400 watts from the wall, GPU only folding, monitor included.
i pay just under $0.12/kwh, it doesnt add up to much for me.
I am glad we have some competition again, we dont want to be getting bored, now do we ;)

+1 No bored is not any fun
 
Nice low W Folder you have there
 
My two (new ) Just converted to Folding on 19 August, eat a few more Watts and then add the AC bill, should be interesting next bill
 
Rig 1 - X99, 5960X - AIO, 1080 FE & 980 SC, Air = 558 W, ~ 1.4M PPD (new EVGA 1200W P2 PSU arrives today, may trim the Watts by 5%)
 
Rig 2 - Z97, 4760K, 2- Titan X SC, custom loop = 700 W, ~ 1.4 PPD