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<p align="center"></p><p><p>At the start of this month we kicked off a week-long competition with our frenemies over at Tom&rsquo;s Hardware. Striving to see which technology website was superior, our respective distributed computing teams held a race in the popular Folding @ Home project to amass the largest number of points over a one-week period. And now that the race week has come to a close, the final results are in.</p>

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<td align="center" colspan="4">Folding@Home Race Results</td>
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<td class="tlgrey"><strong>Team AnandTech</strong></td>
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<td class="tlgrey"><strong>Tom's Hardware</strong></td>
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<p>As of end of the race, Team AnandTech has amassed 296 million points, besting Tom&rsquo;s Hardware by nearly 40%. And while it took a day or so for both teams to get up to speed, as it turns out it was never even close.</p>

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<em>Daily Production Chart (Image Courtesy Team AnandTech user Petrusbroder</em>)</p>

<p>Anyhow, as the race has come to a close, I wanted to take a victory lap to celebrate Team AnandTech&rsquo;s inevitable win over Tom&rsquo;s Hardware, and to thank the many readers and forum denizens who chipped in to help the team win the race. All told, Team AnandTech&rsquo;s production nearly tripled for this race, beating expectations on both sides of the aisle and putting the team ahead of Tom&rsquo;s both for this race and now in overall standings as well. With dozens of participants &ndash; and more hiding in the woodwork &ndash; there are too many people to name, but thank you to everyone who participated.</p>

<p>The same sentiment goes to the team over at Tom&rsquo;s Hardware as well. Although their leadership under my counterpart, Fritz Nelson, turned out to be lacking &ndash; he badly underestimated what Team AnandTech could do &ndash; the members of both teams worked hard for this. After all, a race is only as good as the competition. So I suspect this won&rsquo;t be our last race, as we&rsquo;ll need to do this again in the future to once again satisfy the feud for at least a little bit.</p>

<p>Finally, I want to quickly thank the Purch community team for setting this up, and for providing the funds for the $2,500 donation to Child&rsquo;s Play. As the winners of this race, Purch will be making that donation in the name of Team AnandTech, making for a fitting end to this race, as someone deserving will benefit from the carnage that has been wrought.</p>

<p><div>Gallery: Victory Lap: Team AnandTech Beats Tom’s Hardware in Folding Race<div></div></div></p>
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Source: AnandTech
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