I'm glad to see EVGA continued this.  Thank you!  I would agree in that I think the tiers are very fair.  

The drivers really do make a difference
 
GTX 680 FTW 4Gb
With the latest driver 332.89 I had peaks of 60k with dips of 30k meaning about 45k ppd
 
Rolled back to 327.23 and I now have peaks of 140k with dips of 25k (likely due to new wu taking ~ 12hrs and I game) = about 80k ppd
 
For me the driver is the difference between making the points or not
But I will not benefit from game performance increases or can I launch bf4 (which I admit hardly ever playing but still)
 

_Nite_
You don't have to worry about that, Maxwell's strong point is lower power consumption, the 750 TI is already impressive for what it does and only pulls 60w power consumption.
 
I predict the 860/870/880 cards to pull around 120w, 150w, and 180w when they come out

Agreed, that's my prediction but the folding rate better be vastly stronger and quicker per beta WU is my feeling otherwise I'm not sure it's worth it.  Not worth it for 1.5M anyway.  And one can reasonably predict that 1.5M is going to 2M and 3M over the next few years.  Or it stays the same and the lower end goes from 750K goes to 1M. I just hope these Maxwell cards can push out a swift WU for the price and power consumption required to hit that 1.5M mark.

And then after 10 months you go over here---->http://forums.evga.com/tt.aspx?forumid=79
 
And the crunching team will help you turn your folding rig into a cruncher.
 
The reality is, if you are going to complain about 10 eVGA bucks, you obviously should not be in the distributed section at all!

MSim
The folding promotion hasn't been going on for 7yrs. 
Shouldn't the thread be title evga folding promotion year 3 etc.

http://www.evga.com/folding/MyFolding.asp

One last time
 
if you can't afford it then don't do it
 
there are plenty of things people waste money on - jewelry - movies, fine clothes, cigarettes,booze etc
spend a night at the bar see what it costs - or at the movies - you get what? entertainment that has no lasting effect
junk food
 
a pack of smokes here is around $10 for a pack a day smoker - work that out... 300 a month?  whose wasting money??
same goes with booze Beer in a bar $3 a pop - not even talking mixed drinks - plus any munchies or pool or games or buying for someone else
(Ive blown $300 a night when I was younger)
 
whereas - the dough spent on research may save yourself, your children, your family from a serious disease 
see what cancer will cause you in the USA - bankruptcy 
 
a sense of priorities is what should be looked at - Im willing for to fore go some things to do this 
I won't do anything that would take away from my family needs - but Id for go some luxuries to do some good (maybe fix holey socks and wear my grubby holey running shoes a few extras months)
 
if you think volunteering or donating in other ways is cheaper - you may be wrong
gas costs money - so driving around to do charitable thing is costing you money - no different than burning electricity
and gas isn't cheap anymore - nor is your time - when you could be earning more during the time you volunteer
 
Try walking to work or use mass transit - or use a bike - I do
I walk 1 Mile to store and back - even in snow and sub zero temps
 
I give - everyone should - I donate monthly - cash to charities and Fold too
and Im on a tight limited budget
 
 
small rant
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If everyone is too cheap to help one another then  -let everyone consider the alternative below
(not my opinion of what should happen - can't stand how humanity has become dog eat dog)
 
treat everyone like horses - you get injured or sick we shoot you ( my oh my!!! ..how humans have lost their humanity)
why waste the money on you or train anyone to fix you - that would get rid of the medical community - it would shorten lives and get rid of the growing senior problem
that would also end research into cures and drugs - why not? - FIX thyself human
 
no more OLD AGE PENSIONS going out - it would balance the US budget - no more health care... no more pensions
why not? - a lot of medical procedures cost more than what your'll ever pay in or can get back out of you in a lifetime?
why should we be burdening others with your medical costs - including future generations??
why should anyone be paying for someones  dollar heart or lung transplant or cancer treatments...if you think they are paying for it try again
(and they may never work again after it- consider that)
insurance - well you know why premiums are so high - considering not everyone has insurance either (the more the merrier - defer costs over more people)
(why even profit over death or illness - should all be government run and controlled - fix torte law- torte reform for medical malpractice -ask Canadians if they want US medical system - NO WAY!!! - Universal healthcare - govt run - it works - no death panels - 90 yr old seniors getting emergency surgery)
 
It sickening to think people can't think long term about themselves and won't give now to save themselves or someone they care about later
so it when they get sick and need the research they will cry and whine about needing it and will kick them self if they could about it then
then they be asking others to do it for them now and asking us to pay for it - instead of paying it forward for themselves or their family
 
you do realize the federal govt could increase your taxes to help fund these research projects - and if they are going to increase for one - why not a lot of projects
see the slippery slope - better to give yourself than let the govt realize that funding needs to be increased to certain areas and tax you for it anyways
 
rant over
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be glad EVGA offers an incentive to offset the costs
if you can't make both just go for one tier till your able
 
besides it shouldn't be about the money - it's about doing some good
if you can't make the tiers do what you can afford to do - or go out and do some charitable work locally, or get the word out to others
 
if your on a tight budget and can't really afford it then don't fold now - look at coming back when you can and get the message out to others

I said it already but this thread is slowly decaying so I'll reiterate: fold and/or crunch and expect nothing in return.  If you can accept that then you are in the right place.  Considering just the cost of electricity the $10 evga bucks will not cover it.  You are better off getting a piggy bank and saving $10 a month than folding just for the bucks.  The bucks are a great bonus EVGA provides for us, so be happy the promotion is offered and fold on! You are donating to a good cause and any work you do, no matter if you meet the points levels or not, is worthwhile.
 
I know everyone doesn't have new hardware but those of you that do should have no problem.  My 780 can do 1.5mil in 10 days by itself, and the 4p I bought off clo007 can do it in half a month on regular SMP.

Another folder down. Even though I can reach the two goals this will be my last month folding for bucks. From now on I will be shutting down the system when not in use. As apposed to running it 24/7 365.
 
I will still be folding just not near what i was.

MSim

cokeman54

MSim
The folding promotion hasn't been going on for 7yrs. 
Shouldn't the thread be title evga folding promotion year 3 etc.

http://www.evga.com/folding/MyFolding.asp

 This year starts the 5th year of the folding promotion.
 
 
 

no this is the start of the 7th year, the first year was back in 2008, 2008 to 2014 is 6 years

wrinvert
As someone who is dieing from cancer, those that are complaining about $10 bonus that evga never HAD to offer in the first place you make me sad. At least they have done something which is more then any of the other companies have done. If you cant afford it then fine, but be happy for what you got when you got it and fold for the cause not the profit. Smh...

Fellas, here's a real person right here on our team that needs our help.  It is very hard to listen to concerns about $10 EVGAbucks when there are people, right here in front of us, that need our help.  I beg of you to stop and think about the larger reason that you can be here.  It's OK to desire the trinket that we get from EVGA and figure out how to buy/tweak machinery to get the reward.  But I ask you to think about something.  What's it worth to know that you can help save a life because of your technical ability and willingness to make your PC really earn its keep.  People that are actually willing and do Fold/Crunch are kinda rare in this world when you think about our numbers.  Don't "hang-up the gloves", keep them on and work with us to help work for people like "Wrinvert".  What more reason do we need than to know than we can make a difference in someone's life.
 
Adding a prayer for you Wrinvert and asking God to give you strength and healing from cancer.  You are an encouragement to us all to stay the course, as you are doing every day. 
 

Yep...as I stated in the past, the relationship I have made with wrinvert from gaming led me to folding. He is one of the most humble people I have ever met. Hell, he has even bought ME games so we can play online together, yet like he said, he is dying from this disease. Yet, people want to sit on here and complain about $10 worth of eVGA bucks.
I am selling my set-ups b/c I had my own scare with cancer back in January and I was lucky that my lumps are benign. I have medical bills to pay( my insurance did not cover all of it) and I am trying to save money to go spend sometime with wrinvert this summer.
This guy has single handily changed the importance of things in my life. He would not want that put on him but that is the truth and that is the character this guy has.
He is dying and still giving back to all of us selfish people. You want to put things in perspective, go hang on the eVGA TS server some time when he is on. He makes me laugh my ass off every time. He is helping ME, yet he is the one suffering.
 
Everyone needs to step back for a second and understand the importance of what folding/crunching is doing. If you can't fold b/c it cost too much and you can't get your $10 worth of eVGA bucks, then go volunteer at a cancer hospital.
 
Stop being selfish over something so small when you have people right in front of you that need are help in many different ways!!!

clo007Everyone needs to step back for a second and understand the importance of what folding/crunching is doing. If you can't fold b/c it cost too much and you can't get your $10 worth of eVGA bucks, then go volunteer at a cancer hospital.

They wouldn't let me in the door.  I sneeze like crazy because I have allergies and that's technically a threat risk to them.  My folding is to assist in charity donations. 500k is within my means.  750 I don't think I can even reach.  I'll just make my math known.
 
I can get about 30k ppd with a gtx 660 ti.  I'm a gamer so I can't run it 24/7/365.  To clear the minimum goal of 750 I'd need to run straight thru for 27 days a month.  I made it no secret that my goal was to get these evga bucks and direct them towards charity.  This change is very likely the end of my ability to do that.  78 hours of gaming per month is just not something I do.  That's too little.  I still don't know how to unlock the GPU units on my cpu with a geforce card.  This basically changed the game so that the wind is no longer pushing the boat forward for me.  I'd need to drop some serious dime on an upgrade or 4 to get this machine up to being a 1.5m puncher.  And in my curiosity state of the bitcoin world I've spent my fun money for the next few months.
 
One of the major failing points of the folding is that when I stop to do something else it just dumps the work.  I end up losing time that was spent folding.  So far my bitcoin mining has given me a gross of about $30.  My litecoin is nearly at $20.  But when I want to stop I can just stop.  Nothing I did is lost because I stopped.
 
Overall unless I have some means to either unlock the units on the A10, or make a massive improvement to my ppd output via configuring this 660 ti I'd be making more overall by directing the card to litecoin for charity.  That's my goal.  Charity.  It's not changing because the points per month total is set too high for what I have been doing.  It is what I direct my computer's efforts towards when I am not in front of it.  Folding was a neat little dual gimmick of doing the research and building the charity purchase item up.  This is a game changer.  500K per month was possible.  750 is just out of my reach without scrapping my entire game time.
 
Since I am not changing my goal either my configuration or my lottery ticket winning status needs to change.  The latter I will find out later tonight.  And as for the prior I shall ask in somewhere else.

Zagen30
You should start a new topic about the issues you're encountering.

That is what the other section of the forums is for.  Asking for help related to folding at home.
 
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2128633

kyle7257
Too big of a jump for my electric costs.

DITTO, you should change it to 500k/1million.  I can't afford new hardware with all the electricity costs and wear an tear on my pc, so I may only get tier 1 for now... :-(

thedtm

kyle7257
Too big of a jump for my electric costs.

DITTO, you should change it to 500k/1million.  I can't afford new hardware with all the electricity costs and wear an tear on my pc, so I may only get tier 1 for now... :-(

 
The reason evga keeps raising the requires is to get you to hopefully buy a brand new evga video card. The folding promotion is for marketing only.