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Jayden
Follower of Athlon
posted August 24, 2000 23:16     Click Here to See the Profile for Jayden     Edit/Delete Message
I've got four Compaq Deskpro ENs at work that I use to crunch WU (why not). There are all 400-450Mhz PII with 196 MB of RAM. For some reason I get 9 hours or less per WU. Most run in the mid 8s. Why? I though the TBIRDS were only running about 7.5 or so. Is something out of whack here. You'd think I'd be getting 11s or so. Any ideas, or is this normal? I've got a whole farm of servers at my disposal on the weekend, I just haven't done so yet. I fell so dirty using Intel chips I'd like to see what those PII Xeon are capable of doing.

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fredro
Priest of Athlon
posted August 25, 2000 03:32     Click Here to See the Profile for fredro     Edit/Delete Message
seems like good times to me. dont feel dirty, its like pk said "the intel cpu`s are doing work for 3dnow" hehe irun quite a few intel cpu`s here, but the AMD`s are my favorite.

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NexuS
Wish I had an Athlon
posted August 25, 2000 04:17     Click Here to See the Profile for NexuS     Edit/Delete Message
i'm using a pII Xeon 500 1 mb cache( with 512 mb mem ) and it's doing a wu in about 4.5 hours.

seems to me seti likes a lot of memory bandwith, so i'm couriouse wath a tbirt with ddr ram will do

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Jayden
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posted August 25, 2000 09:03     Click Here to See the Profile for Jayden     Edit/Delete Message
I think these are the 1 meg also. They could be the 2 meg though. This used to be our Oracle cluster, but it's being retired. They just bought a BIG alpha (tru64) machine to replace them. So now I have (2) two processor PII Xeon 400 (I believe). Each node has over a Gig of RAM....can't wait to sneak seti on them. Only 8 hours left 'till I get to try

[This message has been edited by Jayden (edited August 25, 2000).]

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NiteOwl
Wish I had an Athlon
posted September 14, 2000 00:03     Click Here to See the Profile for NiteOwl     Edit/Delete Message
I used to run PII 400 @ 560 MHz and it does WU in about 6.2 hrs. I think it is mainly the old clients being more Intel friendly (or at least chipset wise), liking 512 kb of L2 cache more than 256, the higher FSB (140 MHz) and more importantly the faster memory performance, and the BX chipset. Of course, this will all become sorta meaningless once the new client comes out. Memory performance, high FSB and only having 256 kb (and I guess 128 kb) of L2 cache will be concerns of the past.

PS. Hey Fredo. Remember me?
PSS. Nice SETI group you got here. Look up overclockers-network, we are steadily climbing up.
PSSS. You were right, that other website (which I won't name) is full of B.S.

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fredro
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posted September 14, 2000 14:10     Click Here to See the Profile for fredro     Edit/Delete Message
NiteOwl , yes i do remember you and i agree very much about that other website. it seems as though they are on a power trip, and very intel biased. ive been watching your team, they are moving right along. email me sometime, we can talk more freely.

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NiteOwl
Wish I had an Athlon
posted September 15, 2000 01:02     Click Here to See the Profile for NiteOwl     Edit/Delete Message

trust no one!

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