And for another new entrant into the 100k bracket, it's....

muncca!!!!

Thanks for the steady contributions, and congrats!!!

Slowly but surely !! Good job !

Hey, here's some news on another 100k bracket entrant, it's.....

AubergineAnodyne!!!!

Looks like just this week you've just started up, and jumped to over 100k and #5 in production!! Awesome, keep it up!!! And welcome to the team!!

Welcome and congrats !!!! keep on folding !!!!!

Looks like a french speaker Bienvenue !!!

Here's a new 100k point member, it's....

SThomas!!!!

A slower but steady folder, great to be hitting some milestones! Congrats! And folding for almost 7 years now, great!

I'm happy to see SThomas is still Folding -- I built his machine. It is a single core Athlon 64.

Congrats !! 7 years folding !! that machine is rock solid ! Good job Neil

Hey, another entrant in the 100k bracket, it's....

Haywood!!!!!

Congrats on your first 100k!! Great work, and keep on folding!

Hey everybody, there's another folding starting to climb the brackets, it's.....

Zsu!!!!!!

Congratulations on the great folding! Keep up the good work!!

Hey hey, here's someone new, it's.....

Jackaroo!!!!

Hitting 100k, and keeping it up, great work! In the production top 10, great way to start! Keep on folding!

Hey everyone, a new member has started up the ladder, cracking 100k it's....

tmwebb3!!!!

Congrats on 100k! Thanks for helping out, and keep on folding!!!!

Congrats tmwebb3, welcome

Hey, another new folder on the team, only a couple weeks and hits 100k, it's....

cmh!!!!

Short and sweet! Just started folding and already number 9 in production, very nice! Great work, keep on folding!

Thanks! Good to be here. Folding is fun. SPCR provided a lot of the design and component ideas for two of my machines, so I'm glad to help. Is there somewhere I can read about the bonus structure? I'd love to understand why I'm getting so many more points than the WUs have assigned to them.

Chris

Hey, great to have you on board. Here's a link about the bonus program: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=13160
That's the basic description for standard smp folding, bigadv also has bonuses, but not for gpus as of yet. Although if you read further on that bulletin board, it sounds like they're working on getting bonuses for gpus up and running. Let us know if you have any more questions!

Congrats cmh and welcome to the team

Welcome cmh!

Thanks, frenchie and warriorpoet.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that their hardware decisions are influenced (crazily) by Folding? I just built a new machine to replace my main office PC. I was planning to turn the old box into a low-powered file server or something (really I was), but now all I can think about are bigadv work units and the CPUs that can run them...

Chris

Well, if it matters, I'm pretty sure that Venice will run SMP alright, but I don't think bigadv are going to do so well

Yeah, the Venice box is the one that's getting new guts. i7-2600k can handle bigadv, right?

Yep, an i7-2600k will do bigadv jobs. My best performer is an i7-2600k, heavily overclocked, up to 4.8Ghz, I think. Although to be fair, it's running linux, and linux seems more efficient for bigadv jobs, and the machine is otherwise pretty lightly loaded. Running up the clock speed really helps, I'd recommend getting the best cooler you can and cranking it up as much as you can.

As far as folding determining machines, well, I've always been a fan of getting machines that are a lot more powerful than I need, and folding just gives me an excuse.

Hey, let's hear it for our latest 100k member, just starting to contribute, it's......

Randalee!!!!

Great work, looks like you started up back in May and have started up again, thanks for that! Always great seeing someone contributing! Keep up the great work, and keep on folding!!!

Congrats !! Cool milestone