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fredro
Priest of Athlon
posted June 01, 2000 14:52     Click Here to See the Profile for fredro     Edit/Delete Message
what are you crunching on intek? hehe 322) Intek 7 734 hr 14 min 104 hr 53 min 29.0 sec

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wl6538
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posted June 01, 2000 18:12     Click Here to See the Profile for wl6538     Edit/Delete Message
Let me guess..... 486 DX2 66Mhz with 16MB ram?
My 486 has that kind of spec and it returns a WU in about 110 hours. I'm just gonna keep picking up 486s from eBay and soon I'll have an army of them! watch out Athlons!

By the way, those OverDrive thingy are quite nice, just added a 83Mhz Pentium Overdrive to a 486 DX2 and the WU time now halfed to 60 hours.

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Savine
Follower of Athlon
posted June 02, 2000 01:33     Click Here to See the Profile for Savine     Edit/Delete Message
Ya, Hard to believe a year ago I was running Seti on a 486. Had those same times. The overdrive gives you some floating point cabibilities I believe. That realiy helps in Seti I think. Don't under estimate the mighty 486, I'm running 8 multi'head sewing machines off of one. Just max the memory. (easy to do when people are giving old machines away) Also try Linux. It scales better than Windows.

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wl6538
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posted June 02, 2000 14:10     Click Here to See the Profile for wl6538     Edit/Delete Message
I also recommand Linux for people with limited memory. In Windows with 16MB RAM it chokes with constant swapping (and those old 486 era hard disks arn't fast either)
But in Linux it manages to load the whole S@H into memory without swapping. But I have to drop X window because it takes up too much RAM and I can Telnet into the Linux machine to check the state.sah file anyway.

Also, just a thought, the slowest Athlon runs about 12 times faster than the fastest 486. I think one cheap Athlon bare bone is cheaper than 12 486s from eBay! Not to mention power bill!

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wl6538
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posted June 02, 2000 14:25     Click Here to See the Profile for wl6538     Edit/Delete Message
But either way, 386 or ThunderBird, a WU is a WU, keep it crunching!

...hummmm I talk too much....

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