New CPU is slow with SETI???

[austen]

I just built a new system. (This is the first time I have ever built a computer.)

AMD 2600 with 333 fsb
Asus A7NX8 Deluxe Mobo
512 Mb PC2700 DDR
80 Mb Hard drive
MSI GeForce4 4200 128 mb
350 Watt Power supply

At first it was only running at 1.3 Ghz, then I changed the BIOS to increase the FSB speed up to 333Mhz. Now WCPUID reads the clock speed at 2.088 Ghz. It seems to run great on games like Jedi Knight II and the Unreal 2003 Demo. I guess I am happy with my new computer, but it takes forever to finish a WU in the SETI@home screen saver. I have an old 333 Mhz Dell that takes about 25 hrs/WU, my wife has a Dell laptop with a P3 in the 800-900 mhz range that takes about 18 hours/ WU. My new AMD 2600 is taking about 22 hours to finish a WU. Does anyone have a suggestion to why this might be? What other benchmarks should I run to make sure my system is healthy?

Thanks

 

[Paveslave]

Aliens maybe????

 

[Assimilator1]

I'd bet that you have the graphics showing all the time on your XP rig ,that alone will double WU time!.Minimse the window & enable 'blank screen' in the screen saver settings for the S@H screen saver ,also set it to 'always run'.

Anyway you'd be better off junking the scrn svr version & running the text CLi version.
I run that on 2 PIII 800s & they do WUs in about 8.5-9hrs ,& my XP1700 @1.9GHz does WUs in just under 3hrs
A mates PII 333@374 averages about 15hrs/WU

Also tweaking the RAM timigs to CAS 2-2-2 wil speed things up.........if your RAM can take it that is

For more info about the Text version of SETI head on over to the Distribued Computing forum section

Btw another good benchmark for testing your rig is 3DMark2001SE

 

[BadThad]

Your times are VERY long. Here's some help for you:

SETI Help

 

[BadThad]

BTW - If you follow my advice, that system should do about 8 work units/day!!!!