The 10 to 100 Million+ Points PLUS club, All are welcome..

cordis · **Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:13 pm

Sorry, I haven't been around lately, but let's not forget one of our most recent 10 millionaires, everybody's friend....

Frenchie!!!!

Sorry I wasn't on top of that, but hey, great work!! One of our best folders hits a great milestone, give it up! And keep on folding!!!

frenchie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:52 am

Thanks, It was nice to hit that milestone

Folding still going strong, except when I reboot for updates and I forget to launche the client (I cannot figure out how to launch it successfully with the scheduler, I'll have to look into that...)

frenchie · **Posted:** Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:27 am

And who else but Cordis, again, would hit such a high milestone :
100,000,000 points !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, you saw it right : 8 zeros !!! Great number cordis, congratulations !!!

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:09 am

Wow, I am in awe. Great stuff...

cordis · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:56 pm

Hey, thanks! Sorry I've been so absent lately, I decided to set up a dual socket machine to keep going with bigadvs after the deadline. That caused me to shift around more than a few motherboards between cases, and it's taken me a while to get things back to something like normal. And while that was happening, I had a crisis with my NAS and had to do some backups and rebuilds and crap. And I did an experiment with 3 gpus in a system, then had to shut it down after I couldn't get it any quieter than vacuum cleaner. But things are all humming along now. I'm way behind on my congrats to others though, sorry about that.

SebRad · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:35 am

More congrats to cordis, man that's a lot of points!
For me 30k day ~ 1M months so I'll be there in like 7 years...

Hey frenchie you've now got over 12,000,000 points

Good work everyone

Is it just me or is trying to build a PC that's silent at idle rather easy compared to one that can run CPU & GPU folding and still be quiet :?:

For me I can't keep the CPU temp down at the same time as the noise. Well I can if I take the over-clock off, my i7-2600k @ 4.5GHz is a much, much hotter beast than the [email protected] I had before, a bit faster too of course :lol:

At the moment Speedfan is set to hold the CPU temp, of the hottest core, in the 75~80°C range, if I accepted a few more °C I could bring the noise down somewhat but I think this is already pretty hot.
At stock clock speed I estimate [from AC wattage and SPCR PSU review] that Prime 95 causes the DC wattage to jump by 60~65w, at 4.5GHz that figure is ~130w so not surprising cooling quietly is hard. Well it would be a lot easier if I got a decent case, but that would be cheating!
Seb

frenchie · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 4:17 am

welcome to the 8 digit world dereksbelanger !!!!

Keep on folding

frenchie · **Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:00 am

Sebrad : 15,000,000 !!!

Congrats !

frenchie · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:35 pm

SKeptical_Thinker
50,000,000... that's a lot of 0s.... CONGRATS !!!!

cordis · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:27 pm

Hey, great work SKeptical_Thinker!! Thanks for contributing, and stay skeptical!

frenchie · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:06 pm

Alright, give it up for Cordis !!!

200,000,000 points !!!

:shock:

aristide1 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:15 pm

Holy poop!

:shock:

cordis · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:37 pm

Thanks guys! Keep on folding, everybody!

frenchie · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:52 pm

20,000,000 for cd8uk

cordis · **Posted:** Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:33 pm

Hey, great work cd8uk!

PaleMelanesian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:30 am

I have to crow about this one. 2,000,000 points!

frenchie · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:08 am

Congrats !!!!

PaleMelanesian · **Posted:** Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:30 am

Ok, so I posted this in the wrong thread. :oops:

Not quite to the 10 million mark yet.

cordis · **Posted:** Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:23 pm

Hey, congrats to dereksbelanger for hitting 30,000,000 points and SKeptical_Thinker for hitting 90,000,000 points!!! Very nice! Keep up the great work, and keep on folding!!!!

cordis · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:27 pm

And hey, looks like Lockheed just passed 10,000,000 just today, way to go! Great work!

cordis · **Posted:** Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:26 pm

Well, I just passed 500 million, but I think I'll cut back for the summer. See if I can keep a machine or two going, but I do want to see if I can lower my power bill a little.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:05 pm

Holy moly - that's a lotta' points.

DavidG · **Joined:** Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:41 am **Posts:** 33

Woo hoo, I rolled past 25 million.

Don't check in here much anymore, mostly because Quiet/Silent has become so much more mainstream and secondly computers are so powerful I upgrade at a much slower pace. Thanks to the site admins/owners for leading the quiet revolution.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:39 am

I am actually in this group, now - at about 10,600,000+ points! Woohoo!

cordis · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:38 am

Hey, congrats Neil. I just recently broke 600 million, with the help of some new hardware. The nvidia gtx 980 cards are pretty sweet, I'm currently getting around 330k ppd per card, and the power consumption with that is pretty low. I have a system with two 980 cards in it, and the total system power is around 360 watts when both cards are running, for a 660k ppd system. My old bigadv system is still chugging along, it gets around 300k ppd for 500 watts, so video folding officially has better ppd/watt. And that's still with 28nm tech, can't wait to see how they get with 16nm tech. The only downside is that you only get the high ppd for x17 type units, if you get an older x15 unit then your speed drops to around 77k, and the power use goes up. Not sure why. So you wont' get a super predictable point average, but when it's running well it's pretty sweet. Highly recommended.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:48 am

Video cards are kings of [email protected], that's for sure. My son's gaming computer is my only active [email protected] unit, and it has an ATi card that is not supported in [email protected], so it is running the CPU client on an i5.

cordis · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:42 pm

Well Neil, if you're looking for a better card, I'm sure I could spare one from my stack. I have 4 gtx 460s just sitting on a shelf, and I could probably dig up a 560 or two, but I think they're mounted in a shut down system. You might even talk me out of one of my idled gtx 770 cards, although one of them got kinda noisy, and I'm not sure which one it is. Anyway, if you're interested, send me a message.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:52 am

I will talk to my son about what video card(s) we can put in his system, and I will get back to you.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:54 am

Well, I was tempted by a new GTX 970:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500362

His system has a 400W SeaSonic, but it only has one 6 pin connector, so I was also considering the 520W passive unit ... nearly $500 total.

MikeC · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2014 1:24 pm

NeilBlanchard wrote:

Well, I was tempted by a new GTX 970:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500362

His system has a 400W SeaSonic, but it only has one 6 pin connector, so I was also considering the 520W passive unit ... nearly $500 total.

Unfortunately, that's not a very quiet card -- fans ramp up pretty fast under load. This one is much quieter, like the Asus Strix:
http://gpushack.com/collections/nvidia- ... review.com
$10 discount code: GTX970

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