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    You are correct, and I feel that those should be in two separate statements, possibly even different press releases/videos. Address your apology first, wait a bit, then defend your people so as not to detract from the weight of the apology itself.
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    @LinusTech If Madison's allegations are true, there's no way that I can continue supporting LTT, even if mostly with my eyeballs and on the folding team. On top of that, I watched Linus's portion of today's video, and felt that it was another non-apology. It came across as "I'm sorry, BUT [insert excuse here]", and it doesn't matter what the excuse is, you've nullified the apology by making an excuse. I am disappointed in the developments of the last 72 hours, and I'm even more disappointed with the company's response.
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    It was meant to be from "All the Small Things" by Blink-182, but I like your version better.
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    Made it to team rank 45, and now due to financial concerns, I'll have to stop until Folding Month 2023. I'll be around. Watching. Waiting. Commiserating.
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    I finally did it! WOOO!
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    Just did a(n almost) full rebuild, excluding case, psu, and gpu. With the old parts, I rebuilt my old folding rig in my old case with my *old* RTX 2070 Super. Not sure if such an ancient card can handle folding in this day and age, but I figured that maybe it would allow me to FINALLY break into the top 50.
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    2 Billy! Closing in on Diamond!
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    I tried my best! Anyways, I am disappointed to be the only person from positions 18-21 to not get a prize. Stupid RNG
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    You're just lucky that I'm saving up to buy a house in September. Otherwise, I'd have already caught up. Well, that and the GPU shortage we're finally getting out of. Just remember, I don't get tired, and I can't be reasoned with. P.S.: I have officially moved to Shreveport (Ratchet City), Louisiana. This is as close as I ever plan to work and live to an inner city. Also, it's a bummer since I was hoping to buy @cbigfoota beer now that the pandemic is over (as far as I care), but c'est la vie. 600 miles is a long ways.
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    That's so cool! Something I've wanted for a hot minute now, but never made the time to learn how. Thanks for making such an easy-to-use tool!
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    I have a question. How does the "Time of Use Folding" thing work? Does it let me set a time when the rig is not allowed to fold (e.g. from 15:00 to 18:00, when it's hot as balls)?
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    I only did it during the initial few months of craziness. Was using some cloud folding rigs, and forgot to input the team name. Those 150,000 points still haunt me to this day. Think of what might have been...
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    Welcome to the Forum! I won't comment on the connections since that's not my area of expertise. Ideally, you should run 2 separate cables to the GPU, but it's also not always required, depending on how much juice you'll be pumping through the card. Generally, an 8-pin PCIe connector can support up to 150 watts, and the PCIex16 slot provides 75 watts, which combined is enough to power a 3070 Ti, if it's not balls to the wall. My understanding (not authoritative) is that you can fudge it a bit using the daisy chained connectors, but again, having two discrete connectors is generally the best practice. Edit: See this article for more info on the cables issue: https://www.pcworld.com/article/395059/one-cable-or-two-for-powering-a-graphics-card-heres-the-answer.html
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    Tested this while running WU 18201. Cut cards power limit to 65% (~200W). It's running about 8 C cooler with a loss of only 300k ppd. I'll take it if the darned thing doesn't make my room into an oven anymore.
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    Does your motherboard manual have a list of trouble codes? If it's throwing the same lights every time the codes should let you know what's up.
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    Wow. This @jctappel67 guy is such a noob. Hitting reply instead of edit. What a scrub.
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    Welcome to the community! As far as I understand it, even a 3090 Ti still doesn't have enough throughput to really warrant a PCIe 4.0 connection, so you shouldn't lose anything. For the power supply, you should be totally fine. The recommended power supply is based on some efficiency rating ideal. As long as PCPartPicker says it's good with all of your big parts included. You're good to go. Edit: For reference, I am running a 3070 Ti off of a 650W power supply, while a 750W PSU is recommended. I run folding@home 24/7 unless I'm playing a game, and have never had any issues.
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    I know I've been posting a lot lately, but I just had a (good) holy shit moment. I was playing some Far Cry 5 at 1440p Ultra, and I was wondering why my frames were so low, but I capped the framerate at 60 and went on with the session. When I quit playing, I realized that I had left the card folding the whole time I was playing. This thing's an absolute monster, maintained a steady 60 fps, and continued folding at about 2.25 Million PPD, that's insane. My mind is blown. Have a good day.
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    Is it protected by a surge protector of some sort. Usually power strips are also surge protectors
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    Has he lost framerate in those games, or just seen the changes in utilization?
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    Going to agree with @emosun about the reason for upgrading bit. AS for your second question. I am running a 3070Ti off my 650W SFX power supply, so it should be fine.
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    Are you planning to do productivity-type work, or streaming? If so, the best option is two monitors, hands down. Being able to put things on two screens has saved my sanity while teleworking, and I just bought a portable monitor for my travel-heavy job. If not streaming or doing productivity work, then I would go with the 27 inch monitor. I have a 27-inch (1440p) as my main monitor, and my old 24-inch (1080p) as my second monitor for when I'm working.
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    There lies the the rub. I have an SFX power supply in this computer, with only the 2 PCIe outlets. I could make use of the daisy chain connectors, but that's just too janky for my blood. Not even sure if the other would fit without choking out the chonky new GPU anyway (2.7 slots according to MSI). This is why I kept the old case & PSU around anyways, so it's all good. Also, I have housemates that I assume would (probably) not appreciate having a power hungry heat box sitting in the corner of a common area, cause it's certainly not staying in my room. My main rig makes my room hot enough as it is. Hopefully I'll have my own house this time next year to alleviate that issue.
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    My new GPU came in today. Added 3400 points (35 percent) to my TimeSpy score after light overclock. Now I know it's somewhat stable, so I can get it folding! P.S. Unfortunately, my PSU (650W) does not have the cojones to run both a 2070S and a 3070 Ti at the same time, so my PPD won't be going up as much as it could until I can justify purchasing a new mobo, cpu, and ssd to put in my old case with my old PSU (750W) and run it as a dedicated folding rig. First world problems (le sigh).
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