Hey folks, been folding under EVGA for a while now but never thought to check in here. Never been a participant in the EVGA forums before, and I doubt I'll be an active one, but I'll probably pop by now and again if I have anything folding related to discuss.
So I've been eyeing the EVGA team for a while now. I don't have any particular relation to this community, but I admire how EVGA actively supports the cause by awarding their contributors with something tangible, and in turn I want to support EVGA in any way I can. In fact I try to buy EVGA hardware whenever I can for this very reason. I collect my EVGA bucks every month, but living in Europe I'm not sure I'll ever get to use them. If they somehow buy me a decent graphics card for additional folding a few years down the line that's just a huge bonus I think.
I folded for a moment on my P4 2.8 GHz all the way back in 2004 - a time when GPU folding wasn't a thing yet. This was my first personal machine, and when I heard folding were supposed to only draw unused resources I thought "why not?" and gave it a go. However, it quickly turned out folding did have a massive impact on my gaming performance, so I quit shortly thereafter. Late 2014, about 10 years after I quit, one of the members from the team I'd been folding for PMed me, pitching F@H to me once again, and so I gave it another go on my GTX 570 and have been folding ever since. I got my EVGA GTX 970 SC a couple months later, and shortly after that I upgraded my CPU/MB/RAM, so I decided to make a folding rig out of my old parts and add two additional EVGA GTX 970 SSCs. About two years ago I RMAed my single 970 SC, and paid the difference to get a 1070 SC instead, and this plus the two 970 SSCs is what I currently have running. My client currently reports a combined 1.2M PPD across both computers, but in reality this will be somewhat lower as I also use my 1070 for gaming.
After having folded for my old team for a few years now, I decided back in January that I was fed up with the attitude from certain bad apples within the team and left. However I obviously still wanted to support the cause, and I didn't have to think twice about which team to join in their place, and so here I am. Hope to stay indefinitely!