How can I improve my RC5 stats?

[ProviaFan]

Right now I get about 550 kkeys/sec while actively working on the system, and a little over 700 kkeys/sec when it's idle. Is there any way (without upgrading hardware) that I can improve these numbers? BTW, I have a K6-2 400 MHz overclocked to 450 MHz. I tried pushing it to 500 MHz, but it will BSOD way too often at that speed, while at 450 it runs perfectly stable (never crashes). TIA.

 

[russmanuk]

There's not a huge amount you can do to improve the speed of the client in RC5 without overclocking, and as you've already found the K6-2s are difficult to do o/c. There are ways to get them over clocked but the most you could expect would be 500Mhz and it'd be either risky or expensive for relatively little gain. I think you've already done well to get it to 450Mhz. The bets way to get the most out of it is not to use it & make sure as little as possible is running in the background (wherever practical).

You may already know that K6-2s are best at doing OGR. They can nearly match P2/P3s clock for clock in OGR, but if you want to do RC5, then that's not much help!

I would say be happy that you've already got a 50Mhz overclock & start saving for a Duron system.

Russman

 

[mechBgon]

Switching to blank screen screensaver will improve output for people who are using a fancy screensaver.

 

[BurntKooshie]

Find friends, and assimilate their machines

 

[rc5]

Stop watching porn movie.

 

[LANMAN]

RC5,

LMAO !!

--LANMAN

 

[ProviaFan]

1...I sorta want to do RC5, since there's an Anandtech team for that. And I am saving for an Athlon system (I wish dual, but it will probably be a single 1.2GHz). Tomorrow I'll try tweaking the services to get rid of ones I don't need (we all know how Windows 2000 runs way too much stuff that you'll never use).
2...I don't use a screensaver at all, but that is good advise for those who use fancy OpenGL screensavers, to disable those processor-intensive things.
3...Not really applicable, unfortunately, as most of the other machines I could do this to, are not connected to the internet, or maybe log in once a week. :-(
4...I never watch movies on the computer (especially p0rn ones).

 

[kmmatney]

I don't think that tweaking any services will help all that much. Your numbers are about the same as one of my K6-2 450 systems.

However, I did find that the DOS client seemed to be faster for my Pentium 233. I get 500,000 kkeys/sec on this system running the DOS client - then I sneakernet the results to dnet. if you don't use your old K6-2 for anything else after you upgrade to Athlon you can always try out the DOS client to see if its faster.

 

[OmegaXero]

Forget the dos client, I find that linux is just as fast as DOS, if not faster. And its usable with full network/dialout support. No more sneaker net

 

[kmmatney]

I would try the Klinux, but I have no idea how to connect it up to my exisiting network, which consists of a cable modem hooked up to my wife's Win98SE machine with "internet connection sharing" enabled. This computer has another network card hooked up to a hub, allowing all my other machines to hook up the the internet. I would think that klinux wouldn't be able to use Microsoft's internet connection sharing - does this act as a DHCP server? I guess I can just give it a try. I've been very happy with MS internet connection sharing, it is much more compatible than other proxy server's that I have used.

How do most people go about sharing an internet connection between klinux and Winddows machines? Is a router the way to go? Or would I be better off setting up my Win2K machine as the server, or with some proxy server software like Wingate, etc...?

I'm gonna make this a new topic.