Hi Everyone
Been folding 24/7 since late last year . I heard about it a few years ago and hooked up a really old laptop that was left to me when my sister passed away. It did work and it got my interest. I started shopping for new computer parts in 2017, watching prices rise and fall and felt good I had made some really good purchases. for Intel 7th Gen Core i7-7700K Desktop Processor $198cdn, then $317 and finally $377(turns out the first 2 were scams on Amazon and Amazon made good for both), EVGA 550 B3, 80+ BRONZE 550W, Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode, 5 Year Warranty, Compact 150mm Size, Power Supply 220-B3-0550-V1 for $74cdn, Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB DDR4 Dram C13 Memory Kit for $619, Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan for, $34 (overpaid it is $29 now...lol), Western Digital 1TB 3.5" 7200 RPM SATA III 64MB Cache Desktop Hard Drive (Blue) for $54, ASUS Prime Z270-A LGA1151 DDR4 DP HDMI DVI M.2 USB 3.1 Z270 ATX Motherboard $180cdn, Amazon says the prime is $974 now
. most have gone way up, mem now $400 doh!..you get the picture, win some lose some.
Fell in love with the Haf XB Evo and bought 2 of them at a discounted price, then just bought one more for good measure. You will notice not a gpu in sight. I heard there was a need for cpu only machines over on discord...now I know NOTHING but I heard allot of people chattin about the need for cpu only or cpu active equipment, for certain types of WU's, so I put it to work with the FLDC/Curecoin team.
I learned that if you make an error in your username by as little as one letter those points stay with the original user name. If you make a mistake in your user name you might not have your team recognize your points...(setting up cryptocurrency team settings are a real pain...lol).
You can use different user names and different teams at different times and your points will stay with each unique username/team, but not be combined. Your passkey is unique to the username/team/email and you can get a different passkey for each username/team/email combo but you need to ask for them 4 hours apart if you are using the same email. I believe different machines can fold at the same time for the same username/team/email combo. Not sure about the rules for Team EVGA but I will be testing this theory out, on another team, in the future.
I did add a gpu to the Asus Prime Z270, EVGA RTX Geforce 2060 xc Ultra and runs easily at 1 million points a day. I got frustrated with the FLDC/curecoin system and switched to EVGA and I just missed the 7 million cut for Dec 2019 by about 300,000 points...didn't realize it till January this year. That machine will easily hit 21,000,000 before the end of January and will jump to another team till the beginning of February where it will, switch back to Team EVGA, to go for another 21,000,000.
I just received a new Rysen 7 2700x, ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard (ATX), and (2) EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC Ultra Gaming, 6GB GDDR6, Dual HDB Fans Graphics Card 06G-P4-2167-KR which will occupy another Haf xb EVO. This one will be another attempt at a different cyrpto team.
I will split the mem between the machines since not much is required for folding, I believe.
Want to earn some Bucks at Evga to help with upgrades but I think I see why allot of you guys run Corsair PSU's....because we can't buy any at the EVGA store ...seems they are constantly sold out...grrr...at least it seems everytime I look for one... lol
Points don't follow just your email, imo. I think I read in this forum that someone said they did. I could be wrong but I believe....They are a combination of Username/team/email and the passkey needs to change if one of the three is changed. Each unique combination will accumulate their own set of points. IMHO
If you change one of the three it is a new folding identity, and needs a new passkey.
I would be the first to admit if I am mistaken.
Nice to meet you all.
Joe