Zuhl3156
I would have to Fold for 5 years to upgrade to a video board that meets my standards. The 1.5 million 10 EVGA buck reward helped offset my electric bill. Now you're asking me to go into the hole while my wallet and savings gets siphoned by my power company. The only thing I've upgraded was my wardrobe with EVGA T-shirts. I got a better way to get my equipment upgraded, shut it off and save the electricity that running a video board to Fold burns up.

You do realize that if you upgraded your hardware (video card) you would easily meet the 3M every month. That's $120 per year towards an upgrade. I used my bucks the last 2 years for personal upgrades and got over $100 off the price of brand new 770 SSC and 970 SSC cards. The 770 can't pull it's weight anymore for folding. So I set it up on BOINC and it does great. I use the 970 to fold. It blasts out about 250k per day from my gaming machine. If I am not gaming, I am folding. And I don't see a huge difference in my electric usage between days I fold and days I don't. I haven't even upgraded my cpu in my gaming rig since 2011. I am still running a gen 1 Core i7 CPU at 3.2ghz stock.. So I don't see the problem. I don't fold for the bucks, but it's a nice way to get a great discount on enthusiast level video cards or even a new PSU or mobo... Take your pick... But by and far the GPU is the most noticeable upgrade you can make if you built a solid gaming rig within the past 5-7 years...
 
Again.. Don't do it for the bucks. Do it for humanity. The bucks just show that EVGA is trying to do their part for the greater good. They don't have to, but they choose too. Or you could just fold on your own and get nothing except the satisfaction of helping further research on a number of debilitating diseases. Your choice.

cowboy2199

Zuhl3156
I would have to Fold for 5 years to upgrade to a video board that meets my standards. The 1.5 million 10 EVGA buck reward helped offset my electric bill. Now you're asking me to go into the hole while my wallet and savings gets siphoned by my power company. The only thing I've upgraded was my wardrobe with EVGA T-shirts. I got a better way to get my equipment upgraded, shut it off and save the electricity that running a video board to Fold burns up.

You do realize that if you upgraded your hardware (video card) you would easily meet the 3M every month. That's $120 per year towards an upgrade. I used my bucks the last 2 years for personal upgrades and got over $100 off the price of brand new 770 SSC and 970 SSC cards. The 770 can't pull it's weight anymore for folding. So I set it up on BOINC and it does great. I use the 970 to fold. It blasts out about 250k per day from my gaming machine. If I am not gaming, I am folding. And I don't see a huge difference in my electric usage between days I fold and days I don't. I haven't even upgraded my cpu in my gaming rig since 2011. I am still running a gen 1 Core i7 CPU at 3.2ghz stock.. So I don't see the problem. I don't fold for the bucks, but it's a nice way to get a great discount on enthusiast level video cards or even a new PSU or mobo... Take your pick... But by and far the GPU is the most noticeable upgrade you can make if you built a solid gaming rig within the past 5-7 years...
 
Again.. Don't do it for the bucks. Do it for humanity. The bucks just show that EVGA is trying to do their part for the greater good. They don't have to, but they choose too. Or you could just fold on your own and get nothing except the satisfaction of helping further research on a number of debilitating diseases. Your choice.

Some of us have stopped not because of the Bucks but because of the treatment from Stanford (Their Support Forum).
For me the Buck were never why I started to Fold, I did not even know about the Bucks until two or three months after I started.
I started to Fold based on our Folding Team and the Team Support and User Support for Folding.
Even if the Bucks stopped or even went to higher point base it never would have changed mind about Why I Folded.

I will continue to Fold, at the very least enough to earn the Bucks.  Heat is the major factor for me.  I was never under any illusion as to how my results would be utilized.  Thats just how academia works these days, departments are funded by grant dollars and partnerships with drug companies.  Even to the point of Universities investing in their graduates startup drug companies.  But allowing these students and professors with validation of their theories and resultant therapies is worth it.
I'll just put more effort into compute oriented projects once I've made my bucks goal.  I use my bucks to up my performance level.  I ran a 560Ti up until the 760 series, then I leveraged EVGAs generous bucks to up it to a 970 series card.  Now, I'll use my bucks to upgrade to a 1070.  It's all for a good cause and as a side benefit I get better gaming performance in the interim.
 
I'm sorry to loose some good folders due to Stanfords poor communication.  But I hope those folders contribute to some of good GPU crunching projects out there.  The EVGA crunching community is great too.

Is it too late to request bucks for 3 million in June? The button isn't available to me.
 
Edit:
Never mind, I see EVGA is 500K different than my actual numbers.

Decided to say screw it and went for the 980ti compared to current 970. Between the rebates and discos and not ripping off on shipping promo going on, will let me be set for a bit

The 980ti cards fold very good.

darussian12
Decided to say screw it and went for the 980ti compared to current 970. Between the rebates and discos and not ripping off on shipping promo going on, will let me be set for a bit

Smart move - I am running 2 x 970FTWs and in another case a 980 SC and a 980ti CLASSIFIED - and the ti is AWESOME!

robbysites

darussian12
Decided to say screw it and went for the 980ti compared to current 970. Between the rebates and discos and not ripping off on shipping promo going on, will let me be set for a bit

Smart move - I am running 2 x 970FTWs and in another case a 980 SC and a 980ti CLASSIFIED - and the ti is AWESOME!

def much easier points getting. ill prob regret not holding out for 1070 instead for a bit but whatever. 

darussian12

robbysites

darussian12
Decided to say screw it and went for the 980ti compared to current 970. Between the rebates and discos and not ripping off on shipping promo going on, will let me be set for a bit

Smart move - I am running 2 x 970FTWs and in another case a 980 SC and a 980ti CLASSIFIED - and the ti is AWESOME!

def much easier points getting. ill prob regret not holding out for 1070 instead for a bit but whatever. 

You will down the road but to put things in perspective, I am still running a pair of 780 tis in addition to my 2 970 FTWs and my 980 SC and 980ti Classified, so when you add these up, cost me very little on the frontside and have vaulted me to #3 on the evga crunching team in a short time. (no small feat)
 
If I had the money I would buy 6 1080s and save quite a bit on power for more ppd on any project, including gaming.
 
But 1. I do not have that kind of money and;
2. The cards I have cost a fraction of all new cards and are going to work well for several years to boot. Each of my 3 pcs are running High performance I7s
 
robby

robbysites
If I had the money I would buy 6 1080s and save quite a bit on power for more ppd on any project, including gaming.
 

 
so you plan on liquid cooling all 6 and putting then on a single mobo similar to what linus did on 7 gamers, 1 cpu a while back? 
 
https://youtu.be/LXOaCkbt4lI
 
i would LOVE to see a folding rig like that!