On a side note - I should probably add/warn that I may have to suspend folding tomorrow.  We are forecasting upwards of 12+ inches of snow with "Winter Storm Saturn" headed East.  As it is supposed to be that nice (not using that term in a good way) thick, heavy snow - there is a strong possibility for downed power lines.  If we start to get any indication of power outages, I'm going to pause and shut down rather than lose a WU(s). 
 
If that is the case -I'll be back up as soon as I possible. 

I'm gonna lose a slight bit of PPD, my GTX 460 doesn't seem to like new Project 7661 units as well, I ussually get 15 - 16K on it and it dropped back to 10K

I would vote for option 1.  Reason I say this is because before the contest started it had been mentioned that people could make up for members that wre under producing, and as of now people over producing dont seem to be getting that benefit.
 
Adjusting overall PPD could be an issue as it would imbalance the very even PPD estimates when they separated the teams, unless they were doing percentages or something to determine winners. 
 
It all becomes very difficult, and what we all have to remember is that in the end we are doing this for the good of folding.
 
Having said that, I would volunteer to take on an additional 40-50K PPD now or in the playoff situation if needed. I didnt intend to fold on anything but 1 650TI haha, but if we need to make adjustments, I can fire up some of my other stuff.

New WU's haven't hit my PPD so hard as it is split between GPU and CPU production.  Still running near original estimates so far
 
Also agree with crezno, option 1

Thanks for your concern, Captain.
PM'ed you.
 
Cheers !!!
 

Fellow Pimps - just wanted to drop in and let all know I am finally out of my bunker. Ended up with just shy of a foot of wet snow. Thankfully the 10 year old snow blower had enough to get 70% off the driveway. Thankfully we didn't lose power, but I did throttle back some just in the event we did. I'll get to AB's poll and thread tomorrow when I've had some sleep and coffee.

Pimp On!

bobc36

All I have to say is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M

*Slight nod in agreement, accelerator*

Uuhhhhhhhmmmm, bobc36, you may need to check your shorts for holes . . . I think the fiber worked . . . and you may have gotten some all over the rest of us . . .
 
DAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYUUUUUMMM!!!

Also, just something to keep in mind, the post says that we "May" be able to change our PPD now and/or during the playoffs.
 
If we change it now, we may not be able to change it in the actual playoffs. 
 
Bobc36 for example was under producing original due to issues, however, now that its solved, taking away some of his PPD now may hurt us in the playoffs as he may be producing his expected PPD during the playoffs.
 
From what I can see, contest points are calculated by Reported PPD x 1.2495 x  Days folded = Possible Contest Points.
 
Where days folded seems to be calculated many times throughout the day so noon on the 6th day would actually be like 5.5 days.
 
For example.  If you report 10,000 PPD, and lets say we are on the end of day 10 to make math easy, you can generate a maximum of 12495 PPD. So if you are actually producing 1000,000 PPD, it is only going to credit you, the adjusted PPD of 12495 x 10 (Days Folded) which will net you 124950 contest points.
 
So currently, people gain contest points up to 24.95% of what their reported PPD was.  
 
Having said that, if we wanted to maximize contest points, we would have to calculate it so that over producers are hitting somewhere around or just under the 125% reported PPD limit.
 
So for example, audiomurphy at the time of this post has 406,861 points, which its around noon so it would be day 6.5. So he has an effective average PPD of around 63K i would guess as of today. (He would have a better estimate of PPD since he can see his F@H client)  so in order for him to get maximum points based off of reported PPD, we would want to make hits adjusted PPD to be 125% of his reported PPD. So we would want to bump him to about 50.5K reported PPD or so.

Well, thaaaat's got to be "a load off Bobc's mind"!! 
 
Oh, and I must warn you about discussing the "holes in his underwear"...it will attract "Insaniacs" like crazy. 
 
Congrats Bob!!    We all knew you had it in ya...and glad you got it out! 

We've moved out of last place and are heading for the no. 6 spot! Great folding, fellow pimps!

I got home and decided to pull out the pimp hand on my gear. Everything (except for my wife's/crunching rig) is full tilt. Now I'm forecasting 175k PPD. I just hope the temps stay in line. If they get too warm I'll need to shut down one of the 580's - or stagger them. Or, just open some windows!

Team, Ive got another 500k coming in an hour. Lets hope for some 8103 goodness the rest of the way!

Where all Da Pimps at?!  I hope y'alls be puttin da back-a-da-hand to your gear.  Getcha cane's, getcha cups, getcha funk on - drop it low and FOLD ON!

Viper97

C'mon guys!  Fold!  (and I'm on the front running team!).  Nyah Nyah... Eh.. give it all ya got... Or I'll cut down your pimp canes and shave your fur coats! 

Can not fold much when you get this
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