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posted December 01, 1999 18:12         

you childer boys need to make some room for me up there, im going to get there within 2 months.

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posted December 01, 1999 18:51         

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posted December 01, 1999 20:01         

frank i tried a little sneaker net last night, but i had it running as a screen saver, and one of my fellow workers was surfing the net on that particular machine, so looks like i gotta try to sqeeze 7 hrs a night out of that unit to finish by friday morning, lol. the machines a p2 350 with only 32mb ram, and they got everything under the sun running in the background. i hope to get the unit done. i see you must have gotten a couple units done on that k5 cpu, im working on a pentium 60 this weekend, see if i can build a 200 hour machine, lol hey every unit counts.

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posted December 03, 1999 22:49         

thats great frank. we can always use another machine. im loading win98se on a 133@166 right now for a guy i work with. he said i can use it for a few days, so i may try to get a unit or two off. heck i might even leave it on there in screen saver mode. (there goes my fast 19 hour times) hehehe
i still need to find some ambition to build the 60mhz pentium, also im trying to find a good bx motherboard cheap, i got a 433mhz celeron here that needs to be working, but i dont have a motherboard. anyone out there got a bx motherboard for sale?

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posted December 04, 1999 22:13         

marlins moving, and still crunching? now thats dedication. hats off to marlin. im ordering a soyo tek sy6ba+lll 440bx mobo for the 433 this week. $89 dollars on pricewatch. i had the 433 running 541mhz on a aopen ax63, but the times arent very good on the via chipset. 16 to 17 hours. so i got a 366 oc to 550mhz on that board right now, does a unit in 14 to 15 hrs. from what ive been reading on other boards, the celeron 450`s are getting 9 1/2 to 10 hours a unit. only thing i can figure is via chipset, is kinda weak, or aopen put out a bad ax63 motherboard. heck my little k6-2 450@500 will do a unit in 15-1/2 to 16hrs.
i wonder if jubes going to let me pass him up? better get her cranking jube, im closing in.

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posted December 06, 1999 21:01         

ok frank, i got a cyrix pr200 crunching away right now. looks like 47 hours a unit. might get a extra 3 units a week. now maybe i can concentrate on getting that pentium 60 built. one of my freinds donated 4 486 sx motherboards and cpu`s, but i dont know if i wanna spend the money for cases, memory, and nics? im going to a computer show in columbus this weekend, i will have to see what kind of deals i can get.

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posted December 10, 1999 17:32         

Soon to take it I am sure and soon to be in
the top 10. <G> Keep'em crunching guy.

There is a lot of activity on the Team these
days! GREAT BALLS OF FIRE things are a happening. Ain't it GREAT!!!

- Frank

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posted December 10, 1999 18:37         

yes i noticed that the team has really been cranking the last few days. good job team. i would like to be in the top 10, at least until someone were to bump me out. i put a cyrix pr 200, and a intel 166mmx online here, they each have crunched 2 units so far. tomarrows the big computer show in columbus. i may have another project to put online.

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posted December 10, 1999 20:16         

Where are they having the computer show at ?

Later - Frank

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posted December 11, 1999 04:29         

Oh boy team 3dnow was rocking yesterday. 449 units turned in. everyone extend your right arm, bend your right elbow,reach your right hand behind your left shoulder, and pat your back. wonderful!

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posted December 12, 1999 04:29         

Hey fredro, are you still working on that 200 hour system? It would be interesting to see who could build the slowest system...let's see I've got an old Timex Sinclair that I might be able to get SETI to run on, or maybe that old 8086 system that's in the closet...but seriously, I'm so desperate for WU's that I put together a 486-DX4 100 with 16MB of RAM, running Linux (I hope I can bump this up a little bit...but where to find some parity RAM for cheap???). This system promises to do a WU in about 200+ hours. I also have some older systems that I might put Linux on and try to get some WU's from. I'm still leary of over-clocking my systems. If I fry one, I would be very unhappy Can anyone tell me about the longevity of their over-clocked systems? I'd be interested in knowing what it takes to over-clock a system, and keep it up and running. Anyone care to share any info???

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posted December 12, 1999 10:18         

it may be a week or more before i build the pentium60, i got a couple computers to build for friends, and a networking job to do for another. overclocking? yehhhhh. AMD 450@504 was running 500 for a couple months. intel 366@550 for a couple months. intel 433@541 for a month, amd 266@300 for a while, then started having problems, cyrix pr233(188mhz) ran it at 225mhz(pr300) for a year. intel 133@166 for a year.
keep em crunching argos, your doing great.

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posted December 13, 1999 21:13         

we are doing great getting units out. we lost 2 members today, ratdog and mark2112. they had a lot of units, but i think we can make a comeback. keep up the good work people.

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posted December 14, 1999 21:12         

thanks frank, and im coming. i just built a celeron 466 for a freind,, got it up and crunching seti to break it in. should be able to get a couple units off before he comes to pick it up.

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posted December 23, 1999 17:54         

btw if you have never tried linux you are missing out, even if you dump it later. It's
a must try. http://www.slackware.com has a file 'zipslack.zip' that has a ver of linux that will exist on a fat / fat32 disk without having to partition the hard drive.

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posted December 24, 1999 08:38         

thanks frank. been running these computers hard for the last 3 months. thought i would slow down a little bit when i hit 10th place, but i see a rising star coming up at an incredible pace. Tsardounis Costas is averaging 17 to 20 units a day. good work tsardounis! looks like im gonna have to work harder just to stay here in the top10. its better for the team to work harder anyways is that linux hard to install? i tryed downloading it, but gozilla keeps stepping in and wanting to get a whole bunch of files.
well merry christmas to everyone on the team, and all who read this.

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posted December 24, 1999 10:37         

When you user Gozilla hold down the ALT key when you click on something to download, should keep it from kicking in.

Marry Christmas to all...

-Frank

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posted December 24, 1999 00:04         

thanks for the tip on gozilla. downloading zipslack right now. i gotta go xmas shopping soon, hopefully after the boys open their gifts tonight, and mama goes to sleep, i can experiment with it. i need to get some more speed outta these sytems so i can do some "long overdo" defraging, formating, and so forth. heck i got my celeron 366@567 right now, with a big 19 inch fan blowing into the case to keep it cool. hehe got the 433@541 took the huge heatsink and fan off my amd to keep that one cool, and backed the amd 450 back down from 504 to448. still got the rest of them at stock speeds though.
did you get a email from seti about version 2.0 coming soon? hopefully i wont have to babysit these machines as much.

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posted December 27, 1999 03:40         

well danball, the way i understand it is, the faster the fsb, the higher the performance rating. pretty cool. i know sisoft sandra shows my celeron a pr 600+

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posted December 27, 1999 06:10         

Alas it will not last - maybe another few hundred WU's, and then it's back to my 2/day... I managed to hijack the server at work while the CLO is on holidays over Christmas, and have some 70 PC's getting about 1.2WU/day average for the next few days at least.

Oh well, what he does not know... :-)

David (At about 13th and climbing when the stats are recalculated)

David

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posted December 27, 1999 07:15         

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! merry christmas! whoooo hooooooooo great work daviddth. we need more holidays.

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posted December 27, 1999 17:58         

I was lucky to be able to do it at all. we use a weekly random password on the system, and the CLO is off to New Zealand for a week over the christmas break. I get to watch the system from home for him :-)

Alas he will be back New years eve, when the password will expire and I wont have more access...

David

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posted January 03, 2000 17:37         

The thing I noted though is that I'm now in the top 10,000 people :-) 9882 to be exact, so my question is - what position are you guys with 1000+ WU's in?

David

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posted January 03, 2000 19:53         

As for what place, tied with 4 others at 3397 place with 1585 work_units. 99.783%
Also in 921 st place on the top 1000 users at home listing. Would be doing better but had a 4 day shut down at work for Y2K.

General info: Link
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Team+3DNow%21

It seem to be updated real time and shows the top 200 team users.

-Frank

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posted January 04, 2000 04:06         

well im not top ten but within top 100K of users

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posted January 04, 2000 07:16         

pieter, you have a athlon correct? im getting one soon, and i need some wisdom!
what motherboard would you recomend, and for what reasons? i need to make some space in this house, so i think im going to replace a few 166mhz cpu`s. thanks.

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posted January 04, 2000 07:18         

Pieter, that's a great place to be... <Grin>

Franklin, I have - 2 more days worth, and I'm uploading the results now. I MAY be able to crack the 1000 before I get shut out again, but it's starting to get hard - you see, the way I have to do it is to d/l a heap of WU's to my home PC, log on to work, upload them to the PC's individually, then grab the finished WU's at a later stage the same way.

It takes a few hours, but while I'm on holidays I think why not :-)

Besides, it's all for science (and it's not hurting the team or my stats at all too!)

David

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posted January 04, 2000 10:42         

Just make sure to buy PC133 SDRAM to take along

I also like the ASUS K7M, but it's not a board I'd want to replace for all the gimmicks it has included already.

I'm also using a Biostar model here and had a Gigabyte, but the former has not enough BIOS tweaks and the latter perished from the power load of the CPU fans, so I won't recommend them too much.

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posted January 04, 2000 13:15         

I'd recommend the 6167 110%! I've never(!!) seen an email-support that good, fast and competent.
ASUS on the other hands keeps ignoring my mails asking for assistance...
So guess what I'm selling...

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posted January 04, 2000 13:25         

When buying/building an Athlon be sure u get a good 300watt+ psu http://www.amd.com/athlon . A stacked normal pc will function fine on a 235watt psu but NOT the Athlon!

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posted January 07, 2000 01:35         

hehehe, im gonna push ya all the way to the top. your doing a heck of a job holding me back. please dont give up.

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posted January 21, 2000 00:37         

got my w2 form tonight. i`ll try to get h&r block on it monday morning, hopefully get my money back by friday, go athlon shopping saturday, and possibly be crunching by sunday evening, if nothing comes up.

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posted January 21, 2000 13:08         

thankyou for the link pieter. theres a lot of helpful information there. i hope they have one of those goldfingers devices in my area, although i probebly wont overclock the athlon for at least a week. no it will be more like a couple months. i seen the price of a 600mhz is down to 216 and 40 bucks shipping & handleing. that may be the route i go. i`ll know more after i see how much my return is.

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ok, here we go. saturday i took a trip to mentor ohio, 130 miles away to get my ahtlon. the websight said they were open 10 to 5 on saturdays. i got there at 3 oclock, and they was closed, the sign on the door said open 10 to 5. so i drive another 30 miles to solon ohio, the same thing, websight and the front door said 10 to 5, but they werent open. so its 4:30, im 150 miles from home, and disapointed. i get home, and decide to go to mansfield 20 miles away, i go into curcuit city. only one athlon system. a compaq 700mhz loaded for $1999. (way outta my budget) i go next door to a local dealer. he has a 550mhz athlon system, built by himself. $1659 it had the fic mobo voodoo3 3k 96mb ram ect ect. he says here play some unreal. i say ok, it was fast, i got to looking, he had quake3 (my favorite) so i play it, god waz it fast. blows my celeron 550 away. when i exited the game, i got errors, lots of errors. he seen them and walked away, i laughed and said "no thanks, i`ll build my own."
heres where it gets interesting. my freind whom i work with, said he wants a system built, and if i build it for him, i can use his credit card to order my stuff online. so monday morning, im ordering the athlon 600, asustek k7m, 128mb pc133, and a case with 300 watt ps. i have heard doublesided memory sticks dont work with the k7m. does anyone know if this is true? and what do they call singlesided memory? any help will be appreciated. thanks.

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posted February 06, 2000 23:42         

I can say only one thing K7PRO superbypass enabled system allows fsb oc'ing http://www.msi.com.tw .

Please please please, check it out before u go buy the asus.

Im considering the mainboard myself and i was/am quite happy with my MSI 6167. The K7Pro is a 4 layer amd chipset based board.

Dont know what superbypass enable is checkout Slota.com or tomshardware they have a section on it (slota.com being in the review of the KX133). It does make a hell of a difference!

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posted February 07, 2000 01:15         

thanks again piter, just read the snipplet on it. this is just going to be a tempoary mobo, until abit comes out with a mobo for k7`s. (if they do) i always liked abit, abit and asus are pretty common around here. i got 2 abits running here at the moment, stable as can be. (ockd celery 366@523 433@488) let ya know, what i finally order tommarow night.

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