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Hello, I am frobozz on the ATI team.

I was reading another post in which people were wondering why I had gained so many points in the last few days and there was a comment re the number of clients and whether the WUs are real. Well, here's the story. I got rid of all my ATI cards and bought a several overclocked NVidia GTX 295s. Right now I am running 8 GTX 295 GPU clients (4 cards), 4 other GPUs (older cards) and 10 CPU clients. I'm having some heat and power issues that I am still trying to solve so it's going slower than I thought. I'm at 72k PPD roughly today so you should see another jump tomorrow or Sunday. I have two more GTX 295's going online Monday and two more later next week or the week after. So why so many clients showing up as active??? Because I spent countless hours trying to get two or more GTX 295s to fold under Vista and Windows 7. I read every post in this forum and from other sites and I was not able to get it going like some have (and I tried everything from dummy plugs to real monitors to re-installing the OS, different drivers, inserting one card at a time to finally calling my grand mother and she told me to use Windows XP). But whenever you bring a client online it just stays there for a while on Stanford's database. So what you see there is simply a short lived attempt to get something going. Over time, my clients will come back down to their actual numbers. But rest assured that all of these numbers are correct and true. My goal is 100k PPD before Xmas and then when Fermi comes out next year, I will crank it up a notch again.

And yes, I know it's pretty weird folding with Nvidia cards while being on the ATI team. And I appologize to the other frobozz user but I used that name ages ago when Folding first started but then I stopped for quite a while and when I came back there were a few of us. I've also been using frobozz as well on my PS3 since it came out.

Anyways, no need to make a long discussion out of this but I just thought I would clear the air.

Thank you!

Occam's razor strikes again! But I do admit the circumstances did make it look very strange. So I don't blame people. Imagine how many conspiracies start because one of the simplest explanations seems to be the most improbable!

Don't answer. It's purely rhetoric.

EJK
P.S.
Is it wrong that I have two exposed motherboards sitting on a cardboard box taped to window sills with the window open using Home Depot fans for cooling while SSD hard drives dangle in the air with the PSUs on the side not attached to anything and cranking out 80,123.2 PPDs? Those ASUS motherboard boxes sure are useful after all!

Imagine you had suggested that this is how frobozz had jumped so quickly and it was the most probable answer in your mind. People would have said "you're crazy 7im!". Yet, you would have been correct!

I was asked to post a picture of the rigs. Here's one

http://picasaweb.google.com/ejkitchen/F ... 3754408466

EJK

So on the list of things not to do.....Put a bare motherboard on a window sill during a winter storm with the window open. Had two inches of snow covering the later 3 inches of the board. Now for some reason the snow did not melt and did not short anything (I guess that part is pretty cold and even the ASUS cooling vents were really cold). I turned the machine off right away. Left the board exposed to the cold so the snow wouldn't melt and put water everywhere and then too a hair dryer, set it to cold and ran it outdoors for about 2 minutes so it would cool itself right down. Then I blew all of the snow off the motherboard and PSU insides (really cold snow is like powder sometimes) and finally brought the board in. Had to remove everything and then used the hair dryer with heat to remove what was left. Was some water but by that time all power was removed and was able to completely dry the mobo and remove all humidity. In any case, plugged everything back in, put the power on and amazingly it booted and started to fold again! Last time I do that. And no, I have no snow pictures. I wish I did though but at the time I wasn't laughing very much.

But using Nvidia GPUs while on the ATI team? That's anathema, sacrilege, hypocrisy or something. isn't it? And here I were hoping you were running multiple ATI 5970s at the very least.

I showed the picture of your rig to my wife and the thing we both thought is that you're single (or soon will be.) I wouldn't be able to get away with that. One of my boxes is in the basement to help with cooling, but the window sill is way beyond anything I ever thought of anyway. But what are you going to do when it's no longer winter?

It's probably at least partially my fault that false assumptions were getting made about your effort. I was pointing out some stats anomalies when the stats server went down last month and somehow your stats got pulled into the discussion. Sorry!

Glad no damage was done to your rig with the snow. That could have been an expensive faux pax.

I know, I know! I feel bad because I've been with ATI for so long and I just bumped them up two spots since I went big. And I added more PPD yesterday and have reached 100k PPD now. So now I feel like a big fish in a small pond! It's hard to leave.


Anyways, can't wait for Fermi, then I will really crank it up.