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08-14-14, 07:27 PM #761
Re: TeamPlayerGaming Folding Team
You're still moving up nicely, Cybs. Those are some very good daily numbers: Cybs - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats
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09-04-15, 07:41 PM #763
Re: TeamPlayerGaming Folding Team
Well, after over 4 years of steady Folding and over 78,000,000 folding points, I'm going to finally throw in the folding towel (ba-dum ching).
I've watched the team grow to nearly 50 members and then slowly decline to one final die hard (yours truly). For a short time the team was in the top 300 of all folding teams, and currently stands at about 325. Not bad at all when you consider some of the competition. I hope our contributions have helped further the understanding of protein folding to some small extent.
Two factors have pushed me to finally stop folding. First, one of the fans on my GPU gave out. It was under warranty, but it still cost me to ship it back for repair. I'm sure my constant folding was a major factor in its early demise.
Secondly, due to ever increasing energy costs at home, I recently purchased a Kill-A-Watt monitoring device, which allows accurate estimation of electricity use by various appliances. My major concern was the old refrigerator in the garage, which I assumed would be a huge energy hog. It is (estimated $174 annual electricity cost), but my folding PC beats it, hands down: $292. Nearly $300 dollars a year! Ouch!
While I can hope that that money hasn't gone to waste, I don't really know that my > $1200 folding cost over the past 4+ years has really helped that much in the advancement of science. If the folding scientists could point to a real clinical breakthrough based on their data, I'd feel more justified in continuing. As it is, I just can't afford to keep at it.
I hope someone with greater resources (business PC's, perhaps) will jump in and fill the void. I might fold occasionally as finances allow. But for now, I'm done.
Adios, Team 204219!"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
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09-04-15, 08:36 PM #765Re: TeamPlayerGaming Folding Team
Thanks for organizing this as long as you did Viktor.
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12-02-15, 09:45 PM #766
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Bump for fun! My calculated yearly costs are 235 bucks:/... Hrrmm. Anybody else know of other good folding Projects? I focus my folding on Alzheimer's as my father is affect by it. LIke viktor said I wonder how much this folding helps? Any who chugging along.
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