F@H Spotlight #75

LandShark · 10-09-07, 05:26 PM

This is the 75th in the series of T32 Spotlights!!

NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

Now please give a warm welcome to..........................

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thideras
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Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you.
No problem

When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date.
06.27.06 is when the first work unit went in

. That was my first T32 folding name (I think

). I used to fold under 2cpu.com's team until I joined OCF and enjoyed the community and helpfulness of the members here that I switched teams, leaving my points behind.

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?
I recently finished a dry ice run with hardware that was "donated" for the cause

. I was told it was a "smashing success" as nothing started on fire or blew up!

If you have access to the benchmarking team lounge, there is an entire thread about it name "Ready for the extreme

".

What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?
EOC

You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice)
Brandon, South Dakota (Near Sioux Falls)

How did you initially hear about F@H?
From a friend in highschool. I started folding under her boyfriends username. After about a month of folding I joined OCF for the first time (May 2005) and created my first username under Team32.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
Partly for points (helps gauge how well we are doing) and to help other people.

What do you do for a living?
I am a videoarcade technician (I fix video games for arcades). I am currently looking for a support desk job where I can move into the field of network administration.

What do you do for fun?
I enjoy doing benchmark runs for the benchmarking team. I love pushing hardware until it smokes or is on the edge of catching fire

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
My spare time is either spent assisting people on the forums or playing in a clan on Counter Strike: Source.

Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for?
e6400@3.4; this should soon be a quad. I will not sell this processor as it will be going in a HTPC computer/spare computer and will continue to fold, along with the quad.

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)
I currently have my main pc, a stock e6400 (hopefully not stock for too long), 2.66ghz p4 celly, 2.33ghz p4 celly, 2.0ghz coreduo laptop, 1.2ghz amd duron and a Playstation 3 folding under my name. I should have a few new additions with the quad that should be ordered soon and all the people that I have built computer for have agreed to fold under my name

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
My short-term goal is to get my electrical engineering degree. My long-term goal is to put that degree to use; I want to design electronics (preferabily computers) for major companies.

If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are?
Well, there are few things that I LOVE to do besides computer hardware. The first is gaming, which is what I do most in my spare time (besides browsing the forums). The second is modding, I love taking a case and completely ripping it apart and adding/removing components/holes to make it work better/easier for me (see my armor case link). I enjoy when people come over to my room/dorm and just go: "Wow...."; it leaves them speechless and I love showing people things (such as watercooling) that they have NEVER seen or even thought remotely possible. The third is helping people, all my jobs that I have/had involve helping people in some way, I just enjoy it. The last is dragons, don't know why, but I'm obsessed

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dfonda · 10-09-07, 06:22 PM

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I love pushing hardware until it smokes or is on the edge of catching fire

Gotta love this.

Good to know more about you thideras, its funny but I would a swore you already had a spotlight.

Good luck with the engineering degree as well.

pscout · 10-09-07, 07:28 PM

Great to meet the motivated man as I sometimes think of you

Your energy, enthusiam and unwillingness to let go of a good idea reminds me to not get so lazy and complacent as i sometimes feel.

Its great folding with you on THE team!

sno.lcn · 10-09-07, 07:29 PM

Great to know more about ya man! Keep up the fold (& teh bench)

Hack30 · 10-09-07, 07:38 PM

Glad to know you thideras!

harlam357 · 10-10-07, 09:17 AM

Great to know more about our local bench addict... I think thideras has officially taken Joe C's place in that regard.

...and excellent work as always LS!

cuda340 · 10-10-07, 10:28 AM

Good to meet you.

benbaked · 10-10-07, 11:05 PM

Sweet setups, fold on!

thideras · 10-19-07, 09:38 PM

Oh WOW, I seriously didn't even know this got posted!!

Thanks guys!

If anyone wants to know where I got my name (since imposter told us his

), it is the name of a dragon that I researched!

LandShark · 10-19-07, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

Oh WOW, I seriously didn't even know this got posted!!

Thanks guys!

If anyone wants to know where I got my name (since imposter told us his

), it is the name of a dragon that I researched!

I, for one, was really wondering the name especially when I try to type out your name, I was like... what's that mean?? it doesn't sound like anything at all...

ihrsetrdr · 10-19-07, 11:19 PM

Glad to meet you thideras!

10-09-07, 05:26 PM	#1
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	F@H Spotlight #75 This is the 75th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! NOTE: For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD. Now please give a warm welcome to.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thideras ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you. No problem When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date. 06.27.06 is when the first work unit went in . That was my first T32 folding name (I think ). I used to fold under 2cpu.com's team until I joined OCF and enjoyed the community and helpfulness of the members here that I switched teams, leaving my points behind. If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? I recently finished a dry ice run with hardware that was "donated" for the cause . I was told it was a "smashing success" as nothing started on fire or blew up! If you have access to the benchmarking team lounge, there is an entire thread about it name "Ready for the extreme ". What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link? EOC You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice) Brandon, South Dakota (Near Sioux Falls) How did you initially hear about F@H? From a friend in highschool. I started folding under her boyfriends username. After about a month of folding I joined OCF for the first time (May 2005) and created my first username under Team32. After starting, why do you continue to Fold? Partly for points (helps gauge how well we are doing) and to help other people. What do you do for a living? I am a videoarcade technician (I fix video games for arcades). I am currently looking for a support desk job where I can move into the field of network administration. What do you do for fun? I enjoy doing benchmark runs for the benchmarking team. I love pushing hardware until it smokes or is on the edge of catching fire Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? My spare time is either spent assisting people on the forums or playing in a clan on Counter Strike: Source. Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for? e6400@3.4; this should soon be a quad. I will not sell this processor as it will be going in a HTPC computer/spare computer and will continue to fold, along with the quad. Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) I currently have my main pc, a stock e6400 (hopefully not stock for too long), 2.66ghz p4 celly, 2.33ghz p4 celly, 2.0ghz coreduo laptop, 1.2ghz amd duron and a Playstation 3 folding under my name. I should have a few new additions with the quad that should be ordered soon and all the people that I have built computer for have agreed to fold under my name What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? My short-term goal is to get my electrical engineering degree. My long-term goal is to put that degree to use; I want to design electronics (preferabily computers) for major companies. If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are? Well, there are few things that I LOVE to do besides computer hardware. The first is gaming, which is what I do most in my spare time (besides browsing the forums). The second is modding, I love taking a case and completely ripping it apart and adding/removing components/holes to make it work better/easier for me (see my armor case link). I enjoy when people come over to my room/dorm and just go: "Wow...."; it leaves them speechless and I love showing people things (such as watercooling) that they have NEVER seen or even thought remotely possible. The third is helping people, all my jobs that I have/had involve helping people in some way, I just enjoy it. The last is dragons, don't know why, but I'm obsessed http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/efce2d45.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/IMG_1153.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/IMG_1138.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/ab4734e9.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...s/54ec7f72.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Picture011.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Picture012.jpg http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Picture010.jpg __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! How many GHz of Intel + Nvidia folding power? Dunno! Lost count! \| F@H Vista Sidebar gadget \| F@H Yahoo Widget \| F@H iGoogle gadget \| \| My Heatware \| My New HTPC 3.0: Server/Client setup + Better energy efficiency \|

10-09-07, 07:28 PM	#3
pscout Senior Newbie Cannon-Fodder Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto	Great to meet the motivated man as I sometimes think of you Your energy, enthusiam and unwillingness to let go of a good idea reminds me to not get so lazy and complacent as i sometimes feel. Its great folding with you on THE team! __________________ Main Rig - p5b-d, E6600@3.15 Folding rigs - usually linux-64: 2xQ6600 B3 @3.0, 3.1 p5w64, DS3 4x Q6600 GO @ 3.1-3.3 on p35-DS3R/DS3L, p5k 4x x3210 B3 @3.0-3.1 on DS3 rev 3.3 x3220 B3 @3.0 on g33-ds2r 3x E6600 @2.8-3.5 on p5b, ds3, p5w64 E6320 @ 3.15 on ds3 1x930 c1 @4.0 on p5wd2-E Folding for OCF Team 32 as pete_scout

10-09-07, 07:29 PM	#4
sno.lcn Intel CPU/Mobo and Extreme Cooling Content EditorFolding/SETI/Benching Team Senior Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Atlanta. School in Florida.	Great to know more about ya man! Keep up the fold (& teh bench) __________________ Want to see your writing featured on the overclockers.com front page? PM me, I can help! Please Fold! \|\| Crunch SETI! \|\| Join the benching team! "Careful...if you hang around here too much and you may feel buyer's remorse for that silly TR120...it's doesn't cool as well as LN2" -MIAHALLEN Ross: Yeah it sucks, that was going to be my first daily rig in like years. I was actually thinking about buying a case for a sec cough Gautam: lol, that's what the lga775 stuff is for Heatware

10-09-07, 07:38 PM	#5
Hack30 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Folding@Home on the Blue Ball	Glad to know you thideras! __________________ "All computers wait at the same speed:How fast is yours running?FOLD!" "The only one you are truly in competition with is yourself!" "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe"-Jengo Fett" "Fight the Fight worth Fighting-FOLD for Team 32-WarriorII" "I'm just so envious of all that PPD good luck with the builds, bills and better half..-dfonda" "I hate not knowing what it is!-Daffy Duck" "We're sure of one thing, though - if we don't try to find a cure, it won't be found; so we try.-Adak" Foldin' For Team 32 HEAT

10-10-07, 09:17 AM	#6
harlam357 Senior Fold-a-holic Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: @Home... Folding@Home	Great to know more about our local bench addict... I think thideras has officially taken Joe C's place in that regard. ...and excellent work as always LS! __________________ Q9550(C1)@(450x8) 3.6GHz 1.28v \| Gigabyte EP45-UD3P v1.0 F8 bios \| 2x2gb G.Skill@DDR900 5-5-5-15 2T 2.05v \| EVGA GTX275 \| Antec P180 - Corsair 650TX \| WD740GD - WD3200AAKS \| Samsung 2433BW FOLD32: 2xGTX285@1548MHz, GTX275@1566MHz, 2xGTX260-216@1458MHz, Yorkfield Q9550@3.6GHz, 3xKentsfield Q6600@3.4~3.0GHz, Wolfdale E8400@3.0GHz HFM.NET - Client Monitoring Application for Folding@Home \| I'm a Team 32 Folding Mentor - Ask me about Folding \| Team 32 Folding@Home Intro \| Team 32 F@H FAQ \| Folding/Gaming Room Project \| H's HTPC Build \| Heat (39-0-0)

10-10-07, 10:28 AM	#7
cuda340 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	Good to meet you.

10-10-07, 11:05 PM	#8
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington State	Sweet setups, fold on! __________________ Maximus Formula SE \| QX6700 \| 4 GB ECC DDR2-800 \| Dual HD4850 in CFX \| TX750 GA-EP35-DS3R \| QX6700 \| 4 GB DDR2-800 \| 8800GT \| FX700-GLN GA-965GM-S2 \| E6600 \| 1.5 GB DDR2-533 \| 9800GT-U \| AX500-A msi CR600 \| T4300 \| 4 GB DDR2 \| 8200M G \| 320 GB HDD PowerBook G4 12" 1 GHz \| 1.25 GB DDR \| 160 GB HDD HEATWARE \| my quads \| OCF's first Folding/SETI/Rosetta triple millionaire (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) do you BOINC?

10-19-07, 09:38 PM	#9
thideras Senior Benching Dragon Addict ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Oh WOW, I seriously didn't even know this got posted!! Thanks guys! If anyone wants to know where I got my name (since imposter told us his ), it is the name of a dragon that I researched! __________________ Asus P5Q Deluxe \| QX9650 \| 8gb GSkill 1000MHz \| GTX 260 216 17.83 TB (or 6,232,036 MP3's) \| HX620W \| 2x BenQ G2400W \| My Heatware Current project: Rackmount Overkill Thideras' Druid (Tree) raiding videos and theorycrafting in World of Warcraft

10-19-07, 11:19 PM	#11
ihrsetrdr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: In the fold for Team 32	Glad to meet you thideras! __________________ Folding Farm: i7 920-native Linux SMP Q6600-native Linux SMP Mac Pro-SMP client E6300-2 GPU clients another i7 920 on the way If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein Heat