Hey guys, guess what?

[MrCraphead]

I just joined the Borg Herd under Team AT RC5 cracking unit. It's headed up by dennilfloss and it feels great to be cracking some.....errr......whatever you call 'em.

 

[mechBgon]

Cool, welcome to the Team! Let us know if any questions come up.

 

[MrCraphead]

hehe, no problem. As a newcomer, i'm sure I'll have plenty.

 

[dennilfloss]

First Borg lesson. Russ is the head Borg geek.

 

[mechBgon]

Hey, and by the way, congratulations to TA Cube for reaching the 20-million-block mark on Team AnandTech's ranks, at least according to Dnet's 1-100 listing for our Team... no doubt it should be higher than that due to those missing blocks.

 

[MrCraphead]

i'm not quite sure what that means yet, but thanks.

i have a question. in RC5, does an OCed processor perform the same as a normal processor? i.e. I have a Celeron II 633@950. does it crunch numbers and perform RC5 functions at the same speed a PIII 950 does?

Oh, and another thing. I'm currently running full load at 43 degrees and 1.75 volts. Is this about an average temp for full load?

 

[mechBgon]

Exactly right, the raw CPU MHz is what counts in RC5, so your Cel2@950 is cracking just as fast as an un-overclocked P3 950 would do. Some CPUs give more cracking per MHz than others, with the current champ being... the Apple G4! You can play around with Mika's Speed Page to see what your ideal output should be.

 

[MrCraphead]

whoa....8.7.......that's pretty high. Why do they get so many more per cycle than IBM's?

 

[mechBgon]

I am hoping BurntKooshie will jump in and give a more-detailed explaination of that. Basically, the G4 has registers that are wide enough to bit-slice the keys, whatever that means. The Athlon family holds a noticable edge per MHz over the Intel P2 and P3 family. The real shocker is the Pentium4, which cracks RC5-64 at a rate approximately equal to... a Celeron 500MHz :Q Hopefully they will have a revised cracking routine ("core&quot for the Pentium4 that will allow it to perform well. When it was first talked about, we were all hoping that the double-pumped ALU would result in some very fast cracking... and maybe it still will, once an optomized core has been written for it.

 

[MrCraphead]

Ah, I see.....

 

[RaySun2Be]

Welcome to Team Anandtech, MrCraphead!

 

[tjll11a]

I have OC Duron800 to over a gig. Just started rc5 was wondering if you need any more people on your team. Have more then one computer that can run rc5 client. Want to become number ONE

 

[mechBgon]

tjll11a, it would be great to have you on the Team! Feel free to join, we would love to have you on board!

 

[RaySun2Be]

tjll11a,
Heck yes we need your help! Join Team Anandtech RC5 and help us regain our #1 spot from the DPC!

 

[kranky]

Welcome, welcome MrCraphead!

And tjll11a, you come on and join too!