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AMDZone 10 Year Anniversary July 31st, Asus ROGCon August 8th-10th |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 01:22 |
Well the 10 year anniversary of AMDZone is coming up July 31st. I'm working up some good prizes, and we will be doing online and at Tek Republik giveaways, and maybe even something up at Quakecon again this year. Anyway, we would like to thank Asus for stepping up for some giveaways for our 10 year anniversary. We don't know exactly yet what they are giving us since they are moving locations at present, but on Monday we will have the full scoop. We will also have more details on how we are going to do this, and about our date for our inhouse event.
In the spirit of cooperation we are also going to pimp their ROGCon lan party coming August 8th-10th. Other than Quakecon and CPL our TXGF sponsored by ATI in 2004 was the only lan party over 500 people attended in Dallas. So in the spirit of helping Asus join the 500 club get your butts up there and game. Full details are below. Yes, I know it is Intel sponsored, but don't blame Asus for that, and you can tell them AMDZone sent you.
Welcome to the Republic Of Gamers Convention, brought to you by ASUS and Intel. ROGCon will be heating up Dallas, Texas by bringing old school LAN party fun to a whole new level. ROGCon will be open to the public and will feature a 24-hour BYOC where 700 gamers can show-off their skills. Exciting exhibition areas will feature the latest technology for gamers and some of the biggest names in the industry will host workshops to discuss the latest trends in gaming enthusiast hardware and software. We'll be giving away tons of stuff through raffles and competitions. You and your friends can compete for prizes in competitions featuring games ranging from the old classics to hot new releases. Registration is now open so sign up to beat the summer heat with ASUS and Intel at the Republic of Gamers Convention. |
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AMDZone Folding@home news |
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Written by Matthew Cameron
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 05:07 |
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AMDZone has just passed HKEPC's team; unfortunately, NVIDIA and EVGA are going to pass us up very soon. Want to help us out? Visit our Distributed Computing forum for more information. Also - don't forget about our contests we are having in the forum. |
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Happy Fourth/Fold of July |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 20:01 |
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Happy 4th of July to everyone. I've already had my parade for the day, and tonight we will have some fireworks, but I'm also calling this Fold of July. Why fold of July? Because you should be folding! Join our Folding at Home team, and help cure several diseases, and cancer. With the new GPU2 clients with Nvidia and AMD support the folding power of your computer just increased dramatically. If you have questions get in the distributed computing forum. You will see me folding under the Tek Republik name. All you need is a computer, and you can fold under almost any OS. Don't get discouraged if you are racking up points like some of the guys on the list. Every point counts, and it all goes to a good cause. Curing cancer. If you have a newer Radeon or GeForce card, or dual or quad core CPU or Playstation 3 then you are well on your way to racking up a lot of points. Just pick up one of the high performance clients from the Folding at Home download page. If you have a Radeon, you will need at least the 2000 series for the GPU2 client. If you have a Radeon X1600 or higher you can fold, but you have to use the older GPU client. We are currently testing on the 4870 so those work as well. * 2xxx/3xxx ATI Video Card, or newer
* ATI Driver v8.1+, v8.3 or newer recommended
* AGP GPU aperture size in the BIOS must be set to 128 MB or larger
* Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, with updates recommended
* Windows operating system, XP or newer
* Processor with SSE2 support to feed the GPU
For Nvidia cards here are the requirements. You need a CUDA capable card so pretty much anything as good as a GeForce 8400 and up. You can find that list here.
* a GeForce, Quadro, or Tesla card that supports CUDA (G80 or later for the most part)
* A CUDA capable driver, version 174.55 is recommended. Or 177.35 for GTX cards.
* 32-bit Windows operating system, XP or newer (better Vista support coming soon); 64-bit Windows operating systems appear to currently be incompatible (We're working on this too.)
We are currently approaching 100,000 points a day, and back in December we did just over 400,000 points total so that is a huge increase. I want to see us bust the top 100 by the end of July, and make serious strides towards the top 50 by the end of the year. We can do it, we just need more help, and to harness the power of your CPU and GPU! Stay tuned for a big article from me on Folding performance that will help you. Thanks to the new folders on the team. We have nearly 20 new folders, and if you have any questions please post on the forum or e-mail us and we will help you get up and running. |
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AMDZone Folding Team Passes Apple Computer Inc! |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Tuesday, 01 July 2008 18:40 |
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Well we have passed the snobs at Apple Computer Inc as we have gone up a couple of spots to 141st place with our improved Folding at Home team! If you have questions get in the distributed computing forum. You will see me folding under the Tek Republik name. All you need is a computer, and you can fold under almost any OS. Don't get discouraged if you are racking up points like some of the guys on the list. Every point counts, and it all goes to a good cause. Curing cancer. If you have a newer Radeon or GeForce card, or dual or quad core CPU or Playstation 3 then you are well on your way to racking up a lot of points. Just pick up one of the high performance clients from the Folding at Home download page. If you have a Radeon, you will need at least the 2000 series for the GPU2 client. If you have a Radeon X1600 or higher you can fold, but you have to use the older GPU client. We are currently testing on the 4870 so those work as well. * 2xxx/3xxx ATI Video Card, or newer
* ATI Driver v8.1+, v8.3 or newer recommended
* AGP GPU aperture size in the BIOS must be set to 128 MB or larger
* Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, with updates recommended
* Windows operating system, XP or newer
* Processor with SSE2 support to feed the GPU
For Nvidia cards here are the requirements. You need a CUDA capable card so pretty much anything as good as a GeForce 8400 and up. You can find that list here.
* a GeForce, Quadro, or Tesla card that supports CUDA (G80 or later for the most part)
* A CUDA capable driver, version 174.55 is recommended. Or 177.35 for GTX cards.
* 32-bit Windows operating system, XP or newer (better Vista support coming soon); 64-bit Windows operating systems appear to currently be incompatible (We're working on this too.)
So there you have it. Get your system up and going, and help the AMDZone team fold for a good cause. We have HKEPC in range to pass up, and our next target will be forums.AMD.com. They shouldn't be ahead of us. We have the oldest AMD forum on the planet! |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 July 2008 05:27 )
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