DeFrisselle

This is so awesome I can't believe it to!! Congrats @givingtnt!! 

The winners of the two GTX 1070 GPUs are:
 
@givingtnt and @HighFad
 
Congrats my dudes! I've sent them both a confirmation. If I don't get a reply in 72 hours prizes will be redrawn.

are you kidding ??
that's..
holy shitsnacksormofhell whAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Thanks man!!
 
Can't wait to have her folding tbh! 

Thank you!
 
Agreed, I'm not going to be dropping below my average folding power for the first few weeks of the month for now as it is the way I am heating my home. Hence why I'm folding on a HD7950.
 

Congratulations @Ben Quigley! We all know you earned it lol. Thanks for the help with this in the first place! Now let's take those other teams, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go find some more power ?.

Hey... last time I looked for info the giveaway it said "we'll put up an entry form at the end of the month" or some such, and there were people here asking where the form was. So I folded away and folded away (ever since hearing about it mid-month) and came back today to see if the entry form was up yet. And it was, but it closed three hours ago. I don't hang out on the forum enough, I guess... Next year I guess.

WOOO!!!!!!!!
 
I can't F**king believe it.
 
Thank you so much Jake and all of LMG!

Entries for the 2 GTX 1070s have just closed.

I saw this contest mentioned on The WAN Show a few weeks ago and started crunching back then.  The rig normally does 24/7 BOINC/World Community Grid, but I switched to Folding@home and joined the Linus Tech Tips team for the win.  Just now created a LTT forum account, but long time viewer and subscriber.  I need a graphics card!  Haven't gamed in years and have a HYUGE backlog of games.
 

 
I've been waiting for Intel's 10nm CPUs for YEARS in order to build a beefy, low-power workstation/rig, but Intel keeps postponing the release.  In 2018, I bought a "temporary" PC from Dell, a Dell XPS 8930 with Intel i3-8100 (Coffee Lake) with 4 cores/4 threads @ 3.60 GHz base clock, no Hyper-Threading, and no Turbo Boost.  With 65W TDP.  8 GB stick of DDR4 @ 2666 MHz (capped to 2400 MHz because of i3), and Intel Integrated graphics.  There's a nice untouched PCIe 3.0 x16 slot there just waiting for a graphics card. 
 
I intend to sell this box in 2019 (hence keeping the plastic on the front of the case intact) and either build with Intel's 10nm i7 or i9 (Ice Lake?  Tiger Lake?  Whatever, Intel...) or give AMD my monies and get a nice Threadripper based on 2019's Zen 2 architecture if Intel doesn't deliver.
 
Whatever graphics card goes into this temporary Dell will be transferred to the custom built rig.  Here's hoping I win the 1070!  Should be able to catch up on all the games that have been released since ~2002 when I last "gamed" with Return to Castle Wolfenstein (great game, btw).

I do projects with BOINC but I'm game for this.  
 
Just hit 6.7 million!   Sitting at Team Rank 950.  Been folding since the beginning of the contest with my shop computer (right) with a Phenom II B60 and ASUS Radeon 270X then a week later added my old gaming box with an FX-9370 and XFX RX580 GTS OC
https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/DeFrisselle

Your build is literally perfect for a AMD card, objectively it makes sense to get a RX 580 8gb for like 220 and wait for AMD to refresh the Vega series so u can get a Vega 10 card once the new ones drop. And then continue doing this. High end gaming just isn't ready for ppl with out thousands of dollars to burn on keeping the latest Nvidia overpriced cards. 
 
Just the markets realistic situation now.

Actually the rx 590 sits between the gtx 1060 6GB and the gtx 1070.
 
1070 is a bit faster but should also be a bit more expencive. Also freesync is a bonus on the rx 590. 

it depends.
 
Do you have freesync monitors or an xbox 1 s or X? 
 
Or do u have a g sync setup?
 
If you have non get the 590. G sync is shit, u have to pay more when a panel has it thats bullshit. With freesync u pay nothing extra saving u hundreds of dollars on monitors. Thats a major reason I stick with AMD cards. Ohh and I don't give a shit about any gaming above 144hz at 1080p. 

Thanks for posting Mark, this is my Kickstarter and is aimed at the Amiga fans but also those creating VR machines as the Amiga 3000 was the first commercial Virtual Reality computer.
https://www.amigasystems.com/Newsroom.aspx?id=261
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/483774293/amiga-3000-inspired-modular-amiga-pc-desktop-compu
https://www.amigasystems.com/IntroductionPC.aspx
 
Thanks
Steve