Sometimes you gotta turn the blind eye when needed. I do read what people need to get off their chest but if its jibber jabber, then I take out the horse blinders. To date I 'm still having fun folding. I get the thrill of beating the crap out of hard earned expensive brand new electronic equipment that I can't really afford, lol. It's good to see alot of members still has not lost sight of the main concept, A CURE. Oddly enough I do sometimes think in the back of my mind, am I helping someone develope the T-Virus, hahaha. Until then fold on little doggies.

This might help but I almost stop folding due to the cost of funding gpu electric juice. I found a happy medium and swithed to smp big adv. Now my wife is happier, no need to call the divorce lawyer. I beleive folding is like a 401k. It's not how much you fold, just fold something.

Good job everyone and may the fold be with you....

Tank,
I have tried to get friends and family envolved, they just laugh at me and tell me how stupid i am for wasting time and electricty and my money. Even the guys in my gaming clan have given up. I am out of ideas...
I too am tired of trying to keep my computer up to date to stay in the top 100 of the evga folding team... Cant afford to build a new x79 system at 3 to 5k for what i want, really cant afford to upgrade my cpu and gpu at 1200 to 1600$.
Hard to keep myself folding let alone get new folks to start folding.

well for one thing... a 3930k won't get you into Bigadv anymore
Bigadv is now reserved for smp-16 or greater...ie 2p or 4p rig
 
and linux wasn't that bad to set up - I used linux mint and set up a dual boot
 
 

I hear all of you, I haven't had the resources to keep up with bigadv's or even the 600 series. With my new baby and step daughter in college I just run what I can. I'll never make the top 25.
But, after a trip back east to see my grandmother I just run what I can for as long as she'll hold up.
That's what this team is about, giving what you can. Doesn't matter if it's 200ppd or 2 million. We do it for the betterment of mankind. Even though all of my friends think I'm nut and wasting money...my heart doesn't think so.

The larger things in life that are worth doing are seldom easy, require sacrifice and even might be ridiculed by some.  I've been fortunate that everyone I've encountered has said "that is very cool" when they hear about our Folding team and Folding in general.  That is not to say that they want to do it too, but I've yet to meet someone that didn't get what we are trying to accomplish.  Remember the old 80/20 rule regarding what percentage of people actually take the mantle to do things (especially when it involves donation of time, money, energy).  With Folding that ratio of participants willing to carry the mantle is even less.  For me, Folding is an act of love that hopefully will one day save lives (maybe even ours).  But at my age, I know that what I'm doing today may not come to fruit until after I'm gone and I'm absolutely OK with that. 
 
I may have shared this before, but a pastor once told me "do what you can do" when I was worn-thin with extending my help with the church.  That statement has stuck with me because it didn't just mean take it easier.  It meant don't try to do everything, but do invest yourself in something.  This is one of my "somethings".  I watched what Alzheimers does to a person daily when my wife's Mom lived with us for 6yrs.  It is not easy to watch and even harder for the person that is afflicted with it, especially when it finally shuts down life (organ by organ).  When you get down about why you are here, the investment of time, money, etc.  Just remember that if we don't do this, who will?  The even smaller percentage of people that do it today after we quit?  I can't tell anyone what to do...that is for you to decide, but I know that I must do what I can do and right now by the grace of God, I'm blessed to do this.  All the best to everyone who has Folded at any point and those that can still do it. 

texinga

The larger things in life that are worth doing are seldom easy, require sacrifice and even might be ridiculed by some.  I've been fortunate that everyone I've encountered has said "that is very cool" when they hear about our Folding team and Folding in general.  That is not to say that they want to do it too, but I've yet to meet someone that didn't get what we are trying to accomplish.  Remember the old 80/20 rule regarding what percentage of people actually take the mantle to do things (especially when it involves donation of time, money, energy).  With Folding that ratio of participants willing to carry the mantle is even less.  For me, Folding is an act of love that hopefully will one day save lives (maybe even ours).  But at my age, I know that what I'm doing today may not come to fruit until after I'm gone and I'm absolutely OK with that. 

I may have shared this before, but a pastor once told me "do what you can do" when I was worn-thin with extending my help with the church.  That statement has stuck with me because it didn't just mean take it easier.  It meant don't try to do everything, but do invest yourself in something.  This is one of my "somethings".  I watched what Alzheimers does to a person daily when my wife's Mom lived with us for 6yrs.  It is not easy to watch and even harder for the person that is afflicted with it, especially when it finally shuts down life (organ by organ).  When you get down about why you are here, the investment of time, money, etc.  Just remember that if we don't do this, who will?  The even smaller percentage of people that do it today after we quit?  I can't tell anyone what to do...that is for you to decide, but I know that I must do what I can do and right now by the grace of God, I'm blessed to do this.  All the best to everyone who has Folded at any point and those that can still do it. 

 
Very well said. 

Very well said from both of you - Tex, cudenver & all the others with a positive outlook. Keep the team driving hard.

BTW did you see Tanners new rig. Talk about moral booster, lol.

When the time and most importantly the money allows I will be set back up with a 24/7 folder again. I already have almost everything I need to get going. It wont put up tons of points, but I will be back.

I just got back from visting a freind  who in the last couple of weeks has had to move home to take care of his father who is in the middle stages of alzheimer's disease. That's all the motivation that I need to keep folding.
BTW my 608's average 21.2k per day using Tracker V2.

Fold-on my bros with whatever you can bring to the table.  Diversity and numbers has been our strength in the past and can be again in the future.  Glad to see you guys checking back in and that you are still able to Fold! 

Well I can say I'm back folding at last. Not at the boost I wanted or aimed for, I was aiming for x2 GTS 450's and another lil' 'secret weapon' for that small boost every so often be it a contest or that small boost that might assist in keeping this #1 team, as every point counts.
 
I'm only folding 1 GTS 450, my new one I got for my Birthday a few months back. I've learnt fast that though both 450's each one has it's little quirks and differences. I had to take my 2nd 450 (gifted to me by MrAsh last year) out as I kept getting BSOD's I don't think it's the GPUs fault, it's the fussy motherboard and probable bad slot.
I couldn't get my computer to fold with out it lagging or locking up and giving me crazy cursor, this was even after taking out the 2nd 450.
I spent yesterday trying different drivers and clock speeds and finally came up with a combination that has let me fold, granted I get a small touch of lag, but could say it's 95% better than what it was.
 
The other reason I got persistent on getting this computer folding yesterday was so that for the next 5 months or so I won't feel guilty about my rig being on all the time, as if not folding I always have it on for communication with Madrias.
As of Tuesday evening (4th sept, US time) Madrias' internet stopped so he's not going to be around except if he goes to the library, so I have my computer on all the time still as I don't know what day or when he'll get to the library, and I feel better that it's folding and doing something constructive while I wait.
 
It's day 3 and I'm already going stir crazy without Madrias, it's too quiet, I miss his company, making him laugh, his whacky laugh, his smile, and our idle chit chat, my 2nd screen is rather bland and boring without his face in the corner.
Argh! it's going to be a looong 5 months
 
 

Xavier Zepherious

Owwh!! jesus....I just asked you to PM me in another thread
behave yourself shykal... take it easy on my poor soul

any who... nice to  hear from you

 
I saw that XZ .
Hey who says I'm going to misbehave , pot calling the kettle black... I'll take it easy on your poor soul XZ if you take it easy on mine .
 
I've gotta deal with you mob all on my own for the next 5 months, no Madrias back-up's, or Mad and Shy tag team crazy trash talk should, or if/when a contest arises. .

texinga

Good to hear that you are Folding Shykal and hoping that you and Madrias are in constant communications soon.  I've always enjoyed hearing from both of you, so give him a big "Hello" from our team when you talk to him next.

Thanks Tex.
I will Tex, hopefully he gets his butt to the library soon.
 
I'm folding sporadically atm, I've started getting 7xxx WU's as of tonight, my computer struggles too much on them, locks up or gets too slow and I was told at some point they're hard on the computer, so I won't chance pushing this already touchy computer. I'll try again tomorrow (is late at night here in Aus) and see what WU's I get.

Well, I'm officially at the library, but they've got massive restrictions on programs signing in.  All stuff will have to be done through PM, cause Steam and Yahoo are blocked, as well as Skype and a lot of other programs.
 
It's gonna be a long few months...

It's not much but I just turned a 10k PPD CPU on. It's getting cooler but the temps are still killing me.