MaxSiren - Welcome thread

[Gazoooo]

Welcome aboard....I'm brand new here myself, but the waters warm, the beers, cold, the wings are hot, and most importantly........The Natives are Friendly.

 

[Orange Kid]

welcome; whatchadoin?

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Team!

 

[Hellburner]

Welcome Aboard gotcha covered on everything except the stats right now, this outage is murder...

 

[MaxSiren]

Thanks for the welcome!!

I guess I'll let you all know about my herd...although it's an ever changing one.

At home:
1 x P2-333 (133 FSB) -- time ~13 hours <---- my baby
1 x K6-2 375 (75 FSB) -- time ~44 hours
1 x P1-200 (66 FSB) -- time ~42 hours (depressing how this beats the K6-2)

At work:
3 x P3-800 (133 FSB) -- time ~14 hours (for the life of me, I don't know why they're so slow!!!)

In case any of you are wondering, the work computers are demo units at the puter shop I work at. The boards are cheap Gigabyte 6xve7+'s using VIA Apollo 133 chipsets, I imaging that's what's causing the terrible performance. I tried tweaking the bios using H-Oda's apps, but it didn't result in any difference. I'm stumped, cause people are always reporting times twice as fast for those CPU's. They're not running any other apps.

Anywho, it's what I got and I'm grateful.

 

[smp]

Welcome MaxSiren... when you sell computer systems that you pre-install OS's on.. throw setihide and the Command line version in there for em..

that's not illigal is it?

 

[MaxSiren]

I can't say I've never considered it!!

But no, I think I'd consider that cheating. Besides, it's no fun when you can't tweak and prod the systems along.
However, I do have one customer whom I'm helping set up an office of 4 computers. Since I'm going to be paying him regular visits for at least a few months, I'll ask him if he minds. He's a cool guy (loaded too, I love those customers ) so I'm sure he'll be fine with it.

 

[Green Man]

Welcome, MaxSiren

All are friendly here, and you'll be made welcome, but watch out for RaySun2Be's cane {ouch my noggin still smarts from when he whacked me - I got out of line}

 

[ElFenix]

133 and not 133a? those 133s were really slow. like... reeeeaaaaaaallllllyyyyyy slow.

 

[MaxSiren]

Thanks what I figured. Thanks ElFenix

 

[micron]

Welcome to the TeAm !

 

[Sukhoi]

Welcome! K6-2's are much more efficient at OGR than SETI. You might want to find someone running OGR on a P200 or so, and see if they'll switch that to SETI under your account, and then you could run OGR under their account. Both of you would benefit from that.

On the same subject you might want to find some RC5 people running PIII 800's or so. They could run SETI for you and get much better WU times, and you could run RC5 for them (RC5 isn't affected by mobo speed).

 

[Assimilator1]

A belated welcome by me ,BTW my little bro's K6-2 375 has so far done 1 WU in 37 hrs (FSB 75MHz ,CAS2,Intel TX chipset)

 

[MaxSiren]

75 Mhz...I'm at 50Mhz right now, it's just waiting for the next memory upgrade ripple effect so I can replace the SIMMs with PC100 DIMMs.

I was shocked when I found the ultimate &quot;transition&quot; board. Takes both Simms and Dimms, AT or ATX, chips from P1-66 to K6-3+ 600. Even has an AGP slot! I picked it up years ago for $75 CDN at a fair. The make's unknown to me, anyone ever hear of &quot;RedFox&quot; ?

 

[otlg24]

Max,

Try setting the memory interleave on the P3 on the VIA chipset.. that should greatly boost seti perf.

Steve

 

[Sukhoi]

I also have a mobo that takes SIMMs and DIMMs. It's the EPoX KP6-LA, based on the i440 LX chipset. It has 4 72 pin EDO SIMM slots, and 3 168 pin EDO/SDRAM DIMM slots. The board itself is slot 1, and will take a PII 233-333 MHz, and a Celeron 266-433 MHz. However, since EDO RAM is so slow, it's almost useless to try to use it with processors this fast.

When I first got this board, I was running my C433 with 128 MB of 60ns EDO RAM (SIMMs). SETI WU's were averaging 25 hours each. I think switched to one 128 MB PC66 CAS2 SDRAM DIMM, and my SETI average WU times drop to 12 hours/WU! :Q