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Hard to say without knowing a little more information about the RAM you have, but if I had to guess your MOBO/CPU only supports DDR3, and your new RAM is DDR4. Do you have the model numbers of your old and new RAM?

Ranks have been added 

Yey, I am top 100 for once!....
 
 
 
 
 
 
... because there is less than 100 people that signed up for the event.

Best thing is: That game really is CPU Bound. So you can easily keep your GPU Folding.

Yikes! Left the office door closed for 2 days.... Noticed a noticeable dip in PPD. And it's um..... Warm in here.... Going to stick with mostly GPU this time around. The old dell server does her best, but just isn't that effective.

mmmm I love me some Factorio. 

Yikes! Left the office door closed for 2 days.... Noticed a noticeable dip in PPD. And it's um..... Warm in here.... Going to stick with mostly GPU this time around. The old dell server does her best, but just isn't that effective.

Yikes! Left the office door closed for 2 days.... Noticed a noticeable dip in PPD. And it's um..... Warm in here.... Going to stick with mostly GPU this time around. The old dell server does her best, but just isn't that effective.

Yikes! Left the office door closed for 2 days.... Noticed a noticeable dip in PPD. And it's um..... Warm in here.... Going to stick with mostly GPU this time around. The old dell server does her best, but just isn't that effective.

Yikes! Left the office door closed for 2 days.... Noticed a noticeable dip in PPD. And it's um..... Warm in here.... Going to stick with mostly GPU this time around. The old dell server does her best, but just isn't that effective.

First Pull Complete i have built the sheet it has a chance of having no issues 🤣

Never too early to start 🙂, getting everything re-setup to fold on the desktop today. Gives me this week to see what other nonsense I can find to fold on. Proxmox? Old Laptop? Junk Industrial PC's? Only time will tell..... 

I'm In! I've diverted a few PCs towards CPU Folding , should be username; danwat1234_GRC_33c55b16c9b0fcc5446bc4e21803fec4

TightVNC is my go-to. Teamviewer is a solid alternative.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

Just a reminder! Shutterdown for awhile, let your poor poor hardware take a break. Please keep folding/boincing at least a little bit if you can! The projects that you contribute too are very thankful.

Just a reminder! Shutterdown for awhile, let your poor poor hardware take a break. Please keep folding/boincing at least a little bit if you can! The projects that you contribute too are very thankful.

Great work, everyone! Not only did we manage to keep our 3rd place in the Marathon/Obstacle Run like we did in 2021, we also scored 3rd overall!
3 medals (with 1 silver, our highest position in an event so far AFAIK) is a very nice reward for our collective efforts. This was great fun!

Just a reminder! Shutterdown for awhile, let your poor poor hardware take a break. Please keep folding/boincing at least a little bit if you can! The projects that you contribute too are very thankful.

Just a reminder! Shutterdown for awhile, let your poor poor hardware take a break. Please keep folding/boincing at least a little bit if you can! The projects that you contribute too are very thankful.

Been gone for a couple of days. Looking real good out there boys! <24Hrs to the finish line!
 

Been gone for a couple of days. Looking real good out there boys! <24Hrs to the finish line!