Thanks and glad to be here :)

Hi, I'm new too folding. I've done some on my ps3 which I leave at my parents. They are very skeptical so they won't do it themselves. I'm less skeptical, I've done 16 units so far. And you guys have given me a ton of great information on how to optimize folding and why you're so into it.  

First of all, shouldn't this thread be moved to the Help and Guides forum? I mean it's there so that's what it should be used for. Otherwise, it's probably best just to get rid of the forum and stick with one discussion group. Perhaps another forum could be created for milestones and free up this forum for discussions and help questions.
 
Second, welcome to all newbies. The reason why fah is addicting is because you soon realize that if you stop folding for gaming or work (God forbid), then this greatly impacts your ppd. Also, you start to see other posts such as the recent thread from someone who is getting 50k ppd on his new i7-2600k at 5ghz ON STOCK AIR. For a reasonable amount of effort, you can earn 10 evga bucks a month that you can use to purchase a P67 mobo (why does evga only have one... but I digress) for the new chips so you can increase your ppd. You can see where this is going...
 
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rklapp's links for the uninitiated:
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To start with, try jedi95's FAH Tracker V2 explained here:
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=219556
Use this to set up your cpu and gpu clients. I've decided to remove the individual client links that I used to have here because the FAH Tracker is easier to use. Keep checking for updates because jedi is the man!
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Although pretty, don't open the Viewer. It slows down your clients and could cause your system to crash. If you want to play with pretty molecules, check out http://fold.it from my alma mater, University of Washington. Go Huskies!
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Most i7 with 8 cores use bigadv after 10 WU are completed. Use 7 cores if running a fermi or mulitple gpus. When I'm pissed off at the 670x wus, then I shut off the smp client and run the uni-core client. Please do not delete wus because it messes with the server and makes more crappy work for the rest of us.
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* FaH passkey (needed for smp bonus points)
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/getpasskey.py
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* HFM.net (use to monitor each of your clients and smp bonus points)
http://hfm-net.googlecode.com/files/HFM%20Release%200.5.1.198.msi
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Highlites from Pande's 2010 lecture and his quest for exaflops:
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=632909
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If you're wondering how points are assigned, read the FAQ:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-Points
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Problems uploading your wu to Stanford, check out the server status:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html
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Acronyms:
PPD = Points Per Day (How you measure the client's performance. The uni-core client will net you about 300 PPD while the bigadv client is over 25k PPD.)
WU = Work Unit (The number that Stanford assigns each project.)
TPF = Time Per Frame (How long it takes to process 1%.)
GROMACS = The programming core that Stanford uses. www.gromacs.org
rklapp = PPD/watt for each client. This is how I measure the folding efficiency of each computer device.
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=531159

You're questions are fine and relevant... it's this entire thread's location that I question. Why isn't a thread named "New EVGA Folder Check-IN" in the Help and Guide forum?
 
As I said, the H&G forum should be recombined with the Discussion forum and another one created for milestones (or bragging... whatever you want to call it). This makes more sense to me.

On a side note, hey look... it comes with Civilization V! 
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Welcome to the team!!

I guess I should formally introduce myself. I have been folding for team Engadget for many years, but a few months ago I introduced a friend of mine to EVGA's products and to folding@home. Some of you might know Great_Shovel, I showed him the light of EVGA products. I however never thought of looking at EVGA for its forums or Folding Team, he did. After finally upgrading to my 950 this christmas I decided to join EVGA's folding team to take advantage of the EVGA bucks program. Anyway to make a long story short(too late, I know) just wanted to say hello to everyone.

Hi Everyone,
I'm also a new folder and forum member on the team.  Been folding now for EVGA since mid December.  Already contemplating a second i7 rig dedicated to folding.  I appreciate the help and guides in this forum.  Thanks guys

Hey guys, just added myself to list. However, I made a mistake: I chose the year 2010. 
Can someone correct this, please?
 
Also, Januari Janurary is misspelled.
 
I'm folding on only one machine using only the GPU until I get a full-fledged WC system in place.

I guess I failed. I missed this thread and made another.

Thanks for the tips. I've been folding a bit for Guru3D when I hung out there. Since I now only read the articles there and read this forum a lot more, I joined EVGA.

Hey guys,
I guess kinda just officially started folding as well.
IDK how to compare to you guys, but I have an i7 O.C and a GTX 570 and I'm folding with the GPU.  
I seem to be pushing about 3-4k points per day.
 
Is that good or is that kinda low?

I'm folding with a 570, too. Here are my stats, but bear in mind I also game with it, so it's not 24/7.

Hi there, I'm fairly new to the forum and to folding. I tried folding a bit in November with my 9800GTX+ SC SLI set up and the evga folding program, but only stumbled onto the FAH tracker this month. I'm now set up to fold all day while I'm on campus and most evenings with my 580 SC rig. Thanks for the welcome/info!

You will get the folding bar under your name once you start registering points. Did you also enter your folding name in your profile at the Member's Home?
 
No data is lost when you pause it. It will pause automatically when it detects a game. You can check this via Setup | Test Game List. If it doesn't recognize your game running, create a file in your FAH directory\CONFIG called Games-add.txt and add the .exe file. See the existing Games.txt on the format.

I run all 5 of my GPU fans at 100%
If you are only running one client you may not generate that much heat, but try to keep it below 80C
 
 
Welcome to the team!!