Save money by Folding @Home (A DreamBuild PSA)

Hopefully, all y’all know what Folding @Home is, so I’m not going to go into detail about what it is, but for anyone out of the loop here’s a summary of it: Folding @Home is a program that once installed, uses spare CPU or GPU power to simulate protein folding, and then sends the information to a database in Stanford University which will help scientist better understand the role of proteins in diseases like Alzheimers, Huntington’s, various cancers, etc.  It’s a pretty utilitarian project, or at least it was, until EVGA decided to take things up a notch.  You see, with Folding @Home you can either give data as an individual, or join a team (such as EVGA’s) and donate as a team.  Not much comes from having a big team except bragging rights, bragging rights that EVGA seems to desperately want.  So desperately in fact that they are giving away “EVGA bucks” (Money that can be used to buy EVGA products from their website) and 10% off the b-stocks, which are better than the title suggests.  Want in on this action? Here’s the link http://www.evga.com/folding/promo.asp.  You’re gonna have to register with the EVGA website, and download the GPU version of Folding @Home.  There are some requirements: A CUDA-class GPU’s for NVIDIA (primarily G80 and later) and R6xx or later GPU’s for ATI, as well as WINDOWS (Ominous Music).  If you can play TF2 I think you should be okay in both of these categories, but maybe you should double check.

Guide to joining the EVGA Folding @Home Team: Link

Stanford University’s Foldin@Home website: http://folding.stanford.edu/

EVGA x58 Classified MOBO

I’ll come out and say out in this first post: we here at DreamBuild favor Intel over AMD.  I don’t feel dirty saying it because, well, Intel’s CPUs are just better than AMD’s.  But don’t worry, you AMD fans (if there are any left) we will still show you love by bringing you motherboards (MoBos) that you can dream about in your spare time.

With that out of the way, let me introduce you our first piece of hardware we just cant seem to get out of our mind.  The Limited Edition EVGA x58 Classified Motherboard. And what isn’t there to dream about with this beautiful piece of hardware?  This over sized (EATX) sports just about everything you could want in a motherboard (for this month at least).  This board sports 4 PCI Express 2.0 – supports 24GB of DDR3 1600+ RAM.  Of course, like any board worth its salt these days, it supports Core i7.  It has 8 USB 2.0 ports (Which should be outdated soon).  Has 8 channel audio support, but also a PCI slot to add in your own audio chip if you are that big of an audiophile.  I could literally fill a book with possibilities of this board, its just completely loaded.  Perfect for Gamers and Enthusiasts (Enthusiastic Gamers say YAA!)

Best Deal:http:   Newegg

Text Review: http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3519

Unboxing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZW-4NkVWQ