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Computer guru needed (need more..more..more)

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wischeez

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Anybody have any ideas how to make a P3 933mhz w/256 ram run a liitle faster doing WU's? This thing has to do better than 2-3 a day😕

It's being used for crunching WU's and nothing else. I've pretty much cleaned it up so there are very few programs on it and it's still doing 7-10 hours per WU. BTW, it's running WIN ME.
 
That's about the norm for that PC. More than likely, it has SDRam, not DDR-SDRAM...which will slow it quite a bit. Win2k/XP may help with a few of certain angle WU's.

more...more...more! :Q
 

Engineer...
It has PC100 in it.

Second question..... Since that one is so ssllooww, how do Celeron processors do with SETI WU's?
I'm trying to up my totals, but not lots of cash to work with.
 
That's about what my old Dell (PIII 500) is doing. Some days it is 2 and other days it is 3 WUs. And it is totally idle except for crunching numbers.

I figure some production is better than none..............😉
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
That's about the norm for that PC. More than likely, it has SDRam, not DDR-SDRAM...which will slow it quite a bit. Win2k/XP may help with a few of certain angle WU's.

more...more...more! :Q
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That isn't norm for that pc. My P3-933 is doin 6-7hr WUs. Something isn't right with that pc.

Oh I just noticed the pc 100. Mine has pc 133 in it so that is most likely the difference. Mine also overclocks to 1000MHz fairly easily although it isn't overclocked right now (sold it to my parents and they won't let me overclock it now).
 
Originally posted by: wischeez
Would it help to install PC133 in it? Not sure how to overclock that one...
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It would help some. Also, Win2k/XP would help with the high angle (is that right, or is it the low angle? 😛) WU's. I always get that confused! 😉

Heck, see Baldy18's below! 😉 (LOW ONES)! 😛


 
Yes, it would deffinetly help. Memory bandwidth is one of the most important factors is SETI performance.

*EDIT* Its the low ones.😉
 
I guess it's out to the store I go tomorrow for 2 sticks of PC133!

Thanks for the help guys😀 Just trying to get more WU's for the TeAm.......(1000 in three more days🙂)
 
Memory bandwidth is the biggest problem with my 1.2Ghz Athlon, it is running 768mb of SDRAM @ 100mhz, if i bought a new DDR motherboard with some PC2700 (166mhz DDR) I could probably average close to 5:00 instead of the 6:18 average I have now.

Back to your question, the best way to speed it up will definantly be putting 128mb of PC133 (PC150, PC166 - IIRC they did make this stuff before DDR) and overclocking it to take advantage of it.
 
with pc2100 my 933p3 does WU's at something like 5.5-6.5hrs each depending on AR of course, it's running a not so common sis chipset, and is the only one I know of that can use ddr. most p3 boards are either pc150 or less sdr, or rdram.

upgrading it to pc133 will help a lot 10% maybe more, right now you're not feeding it enough data through the fsb with your memory out of sync like that.
 
I'm not sure how you have things set up, but if you have a small LAN there at home & a central WU cache for the LAN, you can steer WU's to certain computers.
Here at home, no WU's with an AR less than 0.400 get crunched by any computer other that my WinXP one. And any WU's under 0.100 get crunched by the v3.08 client on my WinXP computer.

A little bit of effort will save alot of crunching time 🙂
 
I'm working off of a wireless LAN, but each machine gets it's own WU's from SETI and caches them in Driver on each computer. No central cache used.
 
Over clocking depends on what type of motherboard you have. Some boards don't offer much at all. For the celeron part of your question, they don't do as well as the pentium 3 processors. The celerons only have 128mb cache on them, where a pIII can have 256 or 512 cache (depending on the processor). My old celeron 700mhz overclocked to 1050mhz did wu's in around 12 hours I seem to recall.
 
This one says it will take about 10 hours per WU according to SETI Driver, but the last 2 have taken about 7-8 hours on average. The one that's processing now is a high angle WU. I'll see how that goes.

I'd hate to have to go out and buy another P4 or AMD Athlon 3000+:evil:
 
Originally posted by: wischeez
This one says it will take about 10 hours per WU according to SETI Driver, but the last 2 have taken about 7-8 hours on average. The one that's processing now is a high angle WU. I'll see how that goes.

I'd hate to have to go out and buy another P4 or AMD Athlon 3000+:evil:
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That's about avg for your system. I have celly 800 o/c to 920 w/256mb pc150 ram an averages ~7:50hrs on winXP

check it out: celly800

So i figure ~8hrs/wu is normal for pc100ram!:disgust:
 
Hold up a moment there, wischeez. 🙂 What is the motherboard chipset? If you're not sure, tell me the model (or give the serial number off the little sticker on the side panel) and I'll look 'er up and find out. My suspicion is that it's like our E1400's at work, which use the i810e chipset.

If the system does have an Intel i810e chipset, then the PC133 would be a waste. i810e can run the 133MHz-based Pentium3's, 100MHz Pentium3's and CeleronII's, and 66MHz Celerons and CeleronII's, but the memory always runs at 100MHz and that is unchangeable... it's how the chipset is designed to work. If it has the i815e chipset, then it would be able to run PC133 at PC133 speeds, yeah.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Hold up a moment there, wischeez. 🙂 What is the motherboard chipset? If you're not sure, tell me the model (or give the serial number off the little sticker on the side panel) and I'll look 'er up and find out. My suspicion is that it's like our E1400's at work, which use the i810e chipset.

If the system does have an Intel i810e chipset, then the PC133 would be a waste. i810e can run the 133MHz-based Pentium3's, 100MHz Pentium3's and CeleronII's, and 66MHz Celerons and CeleronII's, but the memory always runs at 100MHz and that is unchangeable... it's how the chipset is designed to work. If it has the i815e chipset, then it would be able to run PC133 at PC133 speeds, yeah.
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According to AIDA32, it's an i810E chipset.
(Don't twist my arm for another Athlon XP 3000+)

😛
 
Originally posted by: wischeez
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Hold up a moment there, wischeez. 🙂 What is the motherboard chipset? If you're not sure, tell me the model (or give the serial number off the little sticker on the side panel) and I'll look 'er up and find out. My suspicion is that it's like our E1400's at work, which use the i810e chipset.

If the system does have an Intel i810e chipset, then the PC133 would be a waste. i810e can run the 133MHz-based Pentium3's, 100MHz Pentium3's and CeleronII's, and 66MHz Celerons and CeleronII's, but the memory always runs at 100MHz and that is unchangeable... it's how the chipset is designed to work. If it has the i815e chipset, then it would be able to run PC133 at PC133 speeds, yeah.
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According to AIDA32, it's an i810E chipset.
(Don't twist my arm for another Athlon XP 3000+)

😛
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I would never dream of twisting anyone's arm, would I? 🙂 But if you wanted to build a new riggie, then a Shuttle AN35N Ultra, a Thoroughbred 1800+ and a stick of PC3200 memory would give you a nice unlocked overclocking kit... I had mine timidly oc'ed to 9.0 x 210MHz for 1890MHz, and generally these are good for more like 2200MHz but I didn't bother pushing the envelope on mine. Not bad for a $49 CPU on a $62 mobo 🙂

 
Can't believe a 933 is that much slower than a 1 gig. My wifes Dell is doing 3-4 wu's a day and sometimes peaks at 5 wu's a day depending on AR. And make sure your board supports pc133 memory (most Via chipset based boards do) or you may still only be running the new ram @ 100 .😛
 
The i810e chipset is suck. 😛

I've got a 700 MHz PIII (100 MHz FSB) on a 440BX board that averages around 8 hrs per wu. A solid three per day. On another chipset, that 933 would smoke my 700.
 
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