KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Putting_things_on_top · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: A not-so-joyful brag...

Yesterday, I eclipsed Sir MillenniumKnight in total points on F@H.
I take little pleasure in this, since he (and a few other venerable knights) have been at this since 01-Jan-2004 (according to EOC stats) - possibly before?

This now puts me in the #4 position on our team (total points).
And sometime within the next ~24 hours, I will have achieved the 10 million point threshold.

Yes, I am trying to get to the #1 position (currently held by Andy Barber with a whopping 7-million+ point lead on me).
And a few of the knights are (thankfully) giving me a run-for-the-money, too!

Anyone else want to "school" me? (it's for a good cause!)
Sir Antigens is staying ahead of me (for now), and Sir CrunchyFrog has been spanking me (on PPD) from time-to-time.

I enjoy the challenge/competition!!!

A special F@H thank-you #ni-1

also goes out to

Sir Morbus
Sir Gemjunkie
Sir stooper101
Sir Eleomosynator

with whom I have had the privilege to converse with on this forum.

And also, THANKS to all the other Knights who are currently contributing to F@H.
Some are newbies, while many others have been consistent contributors for many months (or years).

Every WU and every point counts - for two reasons:
1) F@H is a very worthwhile humanitarian project
2) We - the KWSN - need to re-establish our prestige by regaining a position on the top 100 folding teams (the loonie-magnets are much more effective up there!)

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Gemjunkie · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:09 am Post subject:

If 5% of the listed members were active on the forum, we'd have something.

#ni-2

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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

Heck, if BOINC stats were indicative, if half the listed members were actively crunching the Chinese would be held at bay from our offensive #ni-1

A lot of the people I have been passing up in stats of late are peeps that have 0 RAC with 0 points over the last month at least....
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They come and they go, I myself came and went and have come again. This is indeed my second coming.

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branjo · Prince Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 746 Location: Slovakia

I also left in early 2006 because Boinc agent caused freezing and crashing of my computers, and went back 3 weeks ago.

Glad to found you here, alive and kicking Smile

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KWSN-Crunchy Frog · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:40 pm Post subject: Re: A not-so-joyful brag...

Gemjunkie · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: A not-so-joyful brag...

Putting_things_on_top · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:31 pm Post subject:

Sir Cracked of the Mind · Guest

I looked at computers to day and thought to get a decent shrubber will cost hundreds and just for shrubbing, it aint happening

#ni-1

Gemjunkie · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject:

What sort of target price you have in mind?

CPU crunching only, or GPU too?
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Putting_things_on_top · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject:

I can understand the "sticker-shock".
Folks living in UK and EU are subjected to VAT.
And, there are those pesky, hidden import/export taxes, too.
Ouch!!!

I was browsing a UK site for some tech (a few weeks ago).
The listed price for a certain GPU was around £535 (incl. VAT)
The same exact GPU in the US was around $580.
£535 x 1.56 (exchange-rate) = $835, which is $255 (£164) more expensive.
#Scramble

YIKES!!!!
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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject:

and for those for us who live "out in the sticks" of Europe, it's UK prices plus some ... Crying or Very sad

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Sir Cracked of the Mind · Guest

I am but a poor squire and have spent all my allowance of small bushes and a white picket fence.

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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:18 am Post subject:

We used to dream of an allowance of small bushes and a white picket fence. We used to live out in the woods and eat leaves ... err ... I'm a moose that's what we do.

mmm ... carry on! #ni-1

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No you are a concrete moose, really just a concrete cow from Milton Keynes which someone has stuck horns on #ni-1

Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:27 am Post subject:

The King's Own · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:48 pm Post subject:

You need to become a "Bottom Feeder", that is how I afford my rigs. I paid $280 for a used 580 GTX. Expensive? Sort of, but half new price. Made it possible for me to crack 10 mill GPUgrid in the next few days.

A good graphics card will perform just as well in an older PC.

Tiger Direct, eBay Best Buy, OEM websites. I have another 580 coming that was "B" stock on the EVGA website, again half price. New EVGA motherboard $40 was just delivered.

The savings are dramatic,if you go one step behind the leading edge, the performance becomes affordable.

The reason things are more expensive in UK/Europe is that manufacturers charge what the market will bear.
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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject:

My machines were rescued from being sent to Nigeria, or where ever PCs and laptops go to die these days. Cost $0.
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Grizzly · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:56 am Post subject: Re: A not-so-joyful brag...

sir spuddly buddly · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:03 am Post subject:

"one UBER BOX" That would be a German brand, I assume ... Razz

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