I'll try and update if i get some more accurate figures closer to the start date. Just let me know when you will stop taking corrections and I'll have it in by then. I don't have the same setup pumping all the heat outside like i used to, so it certainly heats the place up. I tried turning on a couple rigs the other day to make sure they still work okay, but the place got so hot that the old lady made me shut them all down =]. I really cant argue this one though, walking into a 95 degree living room first thing in the morning isn't something either of us would want to deal with lol.
 
Last year she enjoyed watching the TZC so she may let me turn them all on again and we will put box fans in all the windows, but we will see.

I'll be folding on anywhere from 0-3 GTX 1080 FTWs, so I'd like to narrow down what my PPD will be, but it may be subject to things like the electric bill and how cold it gets outside as to how many GPUs I can have running. That said, my current estimate of 750k is the best I may be able to offer for now, but wanted to give a heads up that it might not be all that accurate (likely higher than lower however if things go well)

Hey, 
 
I currently have 2 x 980ti and then 8 x rx480 12 x r9 280x & 16 x r9 390 i was trying to get them folding the other day but they were giving me problems so 2 x 980ti for sure the rest we will see i have to balance it out. 

Wow, triharder21, that is a lot of hardware.
Hope you are able to get most up and running.
 
What issues were you having??
 
Cheers
Steve

triharder21
Hey, 
 
I currently have 2 x 980ti and then 8 x rx480 12 x r9 280x & 16 x r9 390 i was trying to get them folding the other day but they were giving me problems so 2 x 980ti for sure the rest we will see i have to balance it out. 

Thanks for responding to my PM here, triharder21.
 
That is a lot of hardware you have there!!!
Your 2x 980Ti's should do ~1,200k PPD total (~600k each), so we could at least use that for your estimated PPD.
 
Do you think that you can fold on your AMD cards during the contest, because that would be awesome. 
Here is a list of the PPD's for the cards you have (I've used OCN GPUs database), so you can go from there to see how many cards you could run during the contest and calculate how much total estimated PPD you could produce.
 
  2x  980 Ti   =  total  ~1,200k (~600k each)
12x  R9 280x  =  total  ~1,800k (~150k each)
16X  R9 390   =  total  ~4,800k (~300k each)
  8x  RX 480   =  total  ~2,400k (~300k each)

Not sure I would start them up and the fah client would just lock up the entire unit. Was trying to set them up as nodes but they just keep locking up. Guessing it's something to do with the cpus as they are dual cores and fah requires more HP to hand out tasks. I was hoping to go balls to the wall this year but...... we shall see I will be putting together a 16 core 32 thread docker/ virtualization/ media server/ backup theory build maybe halfway through this event it may have a few 1070s ;) in it so if I can get fah going in a container. I'll for sure point it at the TZC.

That sure looks like not enough CPU cores and/or maybe also not enough system Memory to get a Core21 WU started.
From what I have read, AMD GPUs do not need one CPU core (edit: for each card) constantly, like NVidia GPUs do, but when a new Core21 WU starts it needs one CPU core and up to 3.5 GB system Mem when it's initializing.  Once the WU is running it will settle down to ~1 GB system Mem or lower and also for AMD cards a low CPU usage.
 
I think it's best to go with your 2x 980Ti cards and 1,200k estimated PPD for now, if that's OK with you.
And hopefully you will be able to start up a few more GPUs during the contest (1070 are great cards for folding).

To bad I have two computers down right now trying to get at least one more up that would add two 980 Hydro Coppers to the mix.

Sorry to hear Guns, Hope to see you up and fully running soon.
 
 

At least I have the two Titan X cards folding for the contest.