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Yup, I was just speaking about the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Early adopters got a better NEM rate, and depending on the density of your neighborhood, what you now get back on a new installation is pennies on the dollar or the local utility won't allow it(?). Some folks with large roofs maxed out the tax benefits by doing their final installation in...

Early PV adopters got Net Energy Metering where excess power from your panels were fed into the local grid and the utility would pay you back if your PV system exported to the local grid. The payback from the grid and changes to the tax benefits for installation costs have made it difficult to...

Just using bill total/k2h, it's about 32 cents per kwh by eyeball. There are some surcharges but it's around there. Honolulu is all fuel oil (vs. coal). For now, I'm fine with using my rig to provide home heat, but like the aussie team, I might drop out for a bit during the summer months.

i started folding again to do home heating and I looked at my electric bill and the breakdown of my KWh costs needs to take place when I'm sober. Out of curiousity, what are members KWh costs aside from tacked on fees? Since I live in Honolulu but don't have PV, my electric bill and weather...

I've always been a "soft" folder for [H] team. In general, It's a gooder idea to use my rig/rigs to throw heat into the house rather than just use something stupid like a space heater. I think that BITD, there was a lot of online advice based on scores. I used to do a lot of infrastructure...

Glad to see a lot of old names. Just got back, and take care y'all.

Hi Tony, Thanks for letting me know you got the card! I only have one dedicated folder running with two cards and a low-TDP CPU (the rig pulls about 183-187 watts depending on the WU), and another part-time rig that folds when I'm using it. In any case, I hope you enjoy the card as we Fold on! :)

FWIW, I enabled beta-flag, woke up in the middle of the night and saw my PPD cut in about half, my CPU pegged, and the wattage from the box go from 183w-190w up to 203. I deleted the beta-flag and went back to sleep. Dual GTX 650Ti rig running on an AMD A2Llano dual-core CPU. Normally, CPU...

My nomination is: -=FlyingOak=- When you're in the top 100 for years, and powered the WUs across so many hardware changes and point changes, it's nice to see a top dog still flying! :cool:

Congrats Musky & Sc0tty!

Hmm...since the OP mentioned really large file sizes, I'd guess that 32GB of RAM would be a cheap performance boost. While this link recommends different Intel based configurations, it seems to focus on core count: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/files/2012/07/CS6_hardware_recommendations.pdf...

There's this link from Adobe on how to "tune" Photoshop CS6: http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/10/how-to-tune-photoshop-cs6-for-peak-performance.html#gpu It's not too specific on the # of cores except for "more is better" and doesn't dig in to integer vs. FP performance, but it does...

It might have been the performance setting being at "adaptive" but since I first posted, it hasn't happened again. I'm keeping the kill-a-watt on the rig for a week or so. I've ran the same model of cards consistently for weeks at the same OC on different rigs ranging from a Sempron, Athlon...

Thanks guys! The stock clock is 927Mhz. I've run different cards in different rigs and it seems like 1097MHz is the sweet spot. The cheap motherboard actually has good spacing between the GPUs, so has better cooling than on my bulldozer rig, and the cards can tolerate more heat than they're...

I have a dual SLI2 mobo (A75A-G35) with an Llano A2 (dual0core) CPU doing GPU-only folding. The two cards are "identical" EVGA 650Tis OC'd to 1097MHz. Right now, the rig is on an older Rosewill 650w (I think) "green unit" new out of the box and I have it on a kill-a-watt to monitor...

I used to hate repeaters, but for dual-band setups, you can dedicate the G channel to purely range-extending duties. I bought a unit for my brother, but haven't set it up yet.

If the built-in antenna sucks, then changing the wireless NIC will probably make it worse.

True. The 650Ti isn't a terrible card, but it doesn't have the single-slot headroom that the 660Ti has, and it is not SLI-capable while the 660Ti is. It might cost a little bit more, but in terms of future-proofing a machine from needing incremental upgrades, I really would recommend a 660Ti...

I'm voting for dwdawg based on his points, WUs, and because Core32 voted for him too. :D

Holy Moly! Great info for free! Only other things I could recommend for simple site surveys is to get blueprints. If you're dealing with multiple-floor structures, use the blueprints to note differences in how the floors are used. Pay attention to metal and materials that absorb moisture...

I have a bunch of 650Tis, but I agree with the recommendation of the 660Ti. It's a little bit more cost-wise, but it is far more future-proof as it is SLI-capable, while the 650Ti isn't, and the 660Ti has a lot more headroom quality-wise on current games. Kepler is pretty good on power...

Shit, I was wondering why all the hot chicks were holding up the line at the scanner! Erm, now that I think about it, some pretty tall guys with big feet were re-scanned too.

I guess electricity is cheap in SC?

It all looks like BS to me. Lots of storage with no bandwidth. There's only so much fiber to go around.

Good riddance whoever he was. If I wanted to nerf my own char based on stat choice, the let me suffer. D3 is all about farming and farming and farming. Same shit over and over and over.

I guess one benefit of Llano over a Phenom II X4 is that if you go to a discrete GPU at some later date, the Llano's draw less power. If you use an AMD GPU, then you'll get a the boost from the on-board ALU too.

LMAO! You could say you hate wieners if you need to get revenge! :D

LMAO and awesome linkage! My favorite thus far: That she Could cook He had his doubts Until she creamed His bristle sprouts with Burma Shave

Show your age if you remember! I've been chasing a cool cat named ice_burg, and might pass him in the next few days, but I would just be squeaking by, so it's not a mow or a haircut, but so very close like a good shave. (He's tough!)

Awesome links! I think I'll buy both!

If you have a link to a screw extractor bit that is that small, could you post a link? I might pick one up to go with my fractional drill bit set.

To beat a dead horse, a quote from Forbes: In its four years on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies, Newegg was never ranked very high. In 2006 the $1.3 billion (sales) computer equipment and electronics retailer debuted at #300 out of 394 companies. While it has improved its...

I've never had to do this myself on tiny screws, but you could try to use high-psi epoxy on a bit, let it set into the torx connector while you hold it, and let it cure for 48 hours before you try to remove the screw. Just don't let any of the epoxy stray from the torx head and bit or you'll...

True. We could have higher GHz CPUs right now, but that doesn't necessarily correlate into improved performance. Current processor architecture is very complex, so that what we often think of as "frequency" as acting instantly across all circuits, is actually a cascade of very-well timed...

In terms of PC gaming, Intel has nothing to compare itself to vs. an AMD ALU and/or ALU + discrete video card.

nVIdia going "poof" is one of the most stupid things I have read while being drunk.

I'm looking at building a dual-GPU rig just for folding and testing. Basically, I'm going to disable any integrated graphics and run 1-2 nVidia Kepler-based GPUs on a 24/7 basis. For the most part, the CPU will only go off idle in order to feed data to the GPUs, and even a single-core...

I voted for musky because Grandpa_01 said to.

True. It would be mad-stupid for a console manufacturer to do revenue sharing on the software front, but in terms of shipped units, there might be some profit to be gained as a supplier. Initial units could be produced at a loss, and then later at a gain depending on the life of the console...