Maximum PC

KingFish · Last edited by KingFish on Tue May 06, 2008 10:44 am; edited 5 times in total

Here are the official rules for chimp challenge '08:

1. First team to accumulate 5,000,000 points from the start time wins.

2. Start time for the contest is May 5th at 12pm noon, Pacific Daylight Time.

3. The victor gets to claim the lucky jaded monkey as the prize. Tales have been told of untold wealth and fame that comes with this. The victorious team is allowed to display in any honorary fashion the jaded monkey, the losing team is forbidden to display it. The losing team is bestowed the dreaded monkey's paw, which is said to be cursed. People have been known for have very bad luck with this paw

4. Team captains are as follows: sno.lcn from overclockers, KingFish from MaxPC, Xilikon from [H]ardOCP, and mitsimonsta from OCAU.

5. In the event of a close race, the Stanford site will be considered the official source for points information.

6. Only with a consensus of the team captains are changes allowed to be made of the rules.

7. The official folding names are "T32monkeys" from OC, "maximum_monkey" from MPC, "[H]ardApe from [H]ardOCP, and "Monkey_Bollocks" from OCAU.

8. Have fun, keep it positive, and enjoy the contest.

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Here are threads at the other teams:

HardOCP Offical Thread

Overclockers Official Thread

OCAU Official Thread

MPC Official Thread

MPC Smack Talk Thread

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Stats Sites:

Clint Davis (OCF) Stats site

HardOCP Stats Site

EOC Chimp Challenge Stats Site
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Here are the screenies taken shortly after 12pm noon Pacific Daylight Time. The stats were down at 12pm, they were taken as soon as the system came back up. They will serve as the official starting points:

Starting points-
MPC - 2,329,535
OCF - 1,276,842
[H] - 110,007
OCAU - 306,823

I'll add to/edit this original post as necessary.
May the best team win Wink

DreadedOne509 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:47 am Post subject:

Good luck to all participants.

Let's get ready to rumble/fold!!!!!

Sneezy · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

TobyKY76 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

I thought monkeys didn't have rules??

Oh well, best of luck to the other 3 teams as they fight for 2nd place.

jack5995 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

On May 5th, I'll be locked and loaded as, maximum_monkey!

Let's go, guys and gals!

gsmitheman · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject:

I'm ready.

I might even skip some naps.

Make sure to use the _ underscore between maximum_monkey.

There are about 4000 points out there with the dash between the names.
They won't help the cause.

It's a good idea to double check each machine you change for spelling and the (_) underscore and also that the team number is still 11108.
If you normally screw up, triple check each one.
Everyone has had problems in this area at one time or another.

Some folks in the past have found the team number changed to 0 (zero, the default) and the points were lost.

Lets make anyone who beats us, work their butts off to do it.

gsmitheman · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:08 am Post subject:

Should be an unusual race if Stanford has problems anything like the ones we are experiencing lately.

KingFish · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

Bump for adding the stats site....the url works but it won't go completely live until after the contest starts

gsmitheman · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

It took me a while to find, so I will add the stats site addition is just the addition of another link to the first post in the thread.

But oh what an addition.

It is vastly improved over previous years and should make the race much more exciting to follow.

Much thanks to Clint Davis (overclockers.com) for doing a fantastic job and making folding more fun for so many people.

If things change, and they always do.
We may have another team to add next year.
Imagine 5 in the race.

KingFish · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the confusion....the original post was edited.

I also added a second stats site being hosted by HardOCP. It's rather slick as well. Stats junkies won't be shortchanged this go-around.

linuxcrazy · Team Member Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 2281

Going to be folding for maximum_monkey on May 5. Very Happy

I wonder if I should fold my HD3870 with my 3 Ghz Q6600 or just the HD3870.

DreadedOne509 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

jgold · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

Oh good! I didn't miss it. I was worried since time is flying by sooooo fastttt and I haven't been checking in as regularly as I'd like.

I'll have everything I've got switched over - including the machines that don't normally fold. I may even give my new quad core's GPU some work. It's not currently folding at the moment.

Anyone know of the top of their head how many PPD you get from an ATI HD3850? Is it worth giving up one of the four cores to run it?

BTW, I had a lot of trouble getting the Q9300 running reliably. I finally traced it down to bad memory but not before I bought a new power supply and video card. On the bright side, I didn't have to pay for either one and now I've not a much better system!

JRitt · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject:

One guy who folds for me is using a 3870 and it gets 900PPD so a 3850 is prob 800 or so. The SMP is still top dog

jgold · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

Heh Heh. It looks like we learned something from last year. Some people waited until the start of the race to switch over. I was one of them. As a result, we got off to a slow start. I just looked at the chip challenge stats page. We're already producing way more points on maximum_monkey than the other teams!

I got all my office machines switched over yesterday and today. My home machines will follow tomorrow. I even installed it on my notebooks which don't normally run FAH. I think we have a good chance of winning this year!

Anpav · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

To quote Al Bundy -

"Let's Rock!"

KTev · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

I'm in too. Any thing other than changing the user name need to be done?

OcciferFriendly · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

Nope, as long as the username is correct and the team number is 11108, you're in the race!

gsmitheman · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

jack5995 · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: