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If I'm not being too nosy, how many machines do you have this running on to be hitting a million PPD?
I was away last week and two of my folding machines were turned off.
I haven't had a chance to reactivate them yet.
Two (well, three). My ten year old MacPro 1.1 running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has two NVIDIA GPUs (1060 and 970). The other system is a Dell Precision T7400 workstation I got a heck of a deal on. It's running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and has a GTX 1070 and a GTX 960.
Finally, I have a 5K Retina iMac that is running the Mac version of the FAH Client. I have it running at there lowest setting so it doesn't make too much noise, but the CPU is good for an additional 16K PPD.
All 3 of my computers are home brews. All my points come from 4 GPU's.
2 GTX 960's
1 GTX 970
1 GTX 980 Ti Classified
Its been interesting getting into this. I've learned quickly its a whole lot more about the video cards. I've got it running on a few machines at home, and a couple spares at work, but the only real good point grabbing video card is the GTX 670 in my home machine. All my work computers are CAD machines with Quadro cards, and the Xeon processors seems to outpoint the Quadros in those boxes.
Congratulations to gdarwin who just passed 6,000,000 Points and DWS44 who passed 3,000,000 Points on the way to 4,000,000 in another day! Way to Fold!!!
I may need to regress my MacPro back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There is something in the 16.04 release that knows my MacPro is on a UEFI platform and wants to activate the Secure Boot option, so the NVIDIA driver picks this up. Unfortunately, it prevents the NVIDIA Driver from installing and I can't disable the Secure Boot option because I don't have video in the pre-boot environment because the GTX cards aren't flashed for Mac.
It seems my daily production takes a 10% - 15% hit due to the version I was able to get working. But still, it seems like I'm whining compared to all the others here who are also impacted by Windows Folding.
I may need to regress my MacPro back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There is something in the 16.04 release that knows my MacPro is on a UEFI platform and wants to activate the Secure Boot option, so the NVIDIA driver picks this up. Unfortunately, it prevents the NVIDIA Driver from installing and I can't disable the Secure Boot option because I don't have video in the pre-boot environment because the GTX cards aren't flashed for Mac.
It seems my daily production takes a 10% - 15% hit due to the version I was able to get working. But still, it seems like I'm whining compared to all the others here who are also impacted by Windows Folding.
Just 4 more days until we say adios to Clube do Hardware - Brasil. 
Public Service Announcement: I had the CPU slot on my Dell Workstation stall with a "Core Outdated" message, The problem was a Project that used a beta version of the Core_a7 but got released into the general Project flow. I had to delete the CPU slot and add it again to get a new WU following Joe_H's instructions here: Re: Core doesn't update
Congrats to Scott, out fearless leader SatelliteGuys, for passing 200 million points. 
Thank you!
Question for you all. Decided it was time to upgrade my graphics card on my home machine! Should be here later in the week to play with next weekend. Do I need to reconfigure anything in the FAH client for it to pickup the new card, or will it pickup the new one automatically?
