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newb question for WU times

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DWW

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Hey all

I want to join Team Anandtech and will start with my "low end" (I don't have anything over 1.7 GHz) Athlons today.

I read the Anandtech FAQ and saw how long it takes to do WU for certain comps but it seems a little dated. I want to totally rice something out (new Celery or Tbred B). My question is this, what do you think a 2.4-2.5 GHz Thoroughbred B could achieve for WU times? 2 hours per?

I searched SETI@home site and didn't find a whole lot for this zone. Are there any CPUs (Intel 32 vs AMD 32 vs AMD 64) seem to be particularly advantaged at completing work units?



Thanks a ton and keep up the good work,
DWW
 
i would guess that 2.4-2.5 ghz tbred b would crank em out around 2:00 - 2:15 range.
depends on your mobo and RAM too
nforce2 is the way to go, imho.

my epox 8rda with the ram and fsb @ 185 and a 2100+ or so would do a .417 AR WU (avg) in about 2:30 give or take.
 
gistech1978 what does your CPU clock in at? (I'm guessing your multiplier is 13 cause 13x133 is default of 2100) so that'd make it around 2.4 GHz right?

 
The 1.7Ghz system should average about 2:45 per wu and that would also depend on other factors such as memory speed, timings, etc. A 2.4Ghz Throughbred would be in the 2:05/2:20 range.

The best system that I have run for total wu's per day completed is my 2.6C rig @ 3.4Ghz with HyperX PC3500 running at DDR420 CL2-2-2-5 Performance Mode Enabled. With HT enabled it would yield 18-21 wu's per day running 2 instances of Seti Driver at once.
 
Originally posted by: DWW
gistech1978 what does your CPU clock in at? (I'm guessing your multiplier is 13 cause 13x133 is default of 2100) so that'd make it around 2.4 GHz right?
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well the point of getting a tbred b is to run it at 166. as is my understanding.
i have my cpu right now @ 187*10.5 = 1963 and that equates to a 2400+ on the AMD rating scale.
thats about where i had it when i was running S@H.

nforce2 you can change the multiplier on your cpu without having to unlock it or anything so you can make your FSB 166 or higher ( if you wish) and lower your multiplier accordingly to make it the roughly the same clock speed as X*133

 
Thanks Praetorian I was looking at that but it seemed a little "dated" shall we say 🙂
 
VIA chipsets can alter multipliers on Tbreds too without any bridge joining🙂

DWW
I've got a Tbred B XP1700 @2.04GHz,177MHz FSB,2.5-2-2-6 timings,nfrc2 chipset,dual channel RAM.
I get 2hrs 28mins for an average WU (0.417 AR) ,fastest is about 2hrs 8mins🙂
Thats on Win2k with SETI CLI v3.03

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forgot to say😱 ,welcome to TA!😀
 
Err ,ok.🙂

Firstly Ive got an Abit KT7a v1.3 (KT133a chipset) & I used to have an Asus A7V 266-E (KT266a chipset) too.

For the Abit ,I took the XP1700 Tbred B out its box,plonked it in ,threw the HSF on ,fired it up choose x12.5 & 150MHz FSB ,rebooted ,stability tested in Win 9x & that was it😉

Thoroughbred CPU's are unlocked,you do not need to join any bridges to get the full range of mutlipliers (within x6-x12.5 for upto XP2100s or x13-x17 for higher XPs anyway😛).This should work on any mbrd that can choose multipliers via switches or the bios.It doesn't have to be an Nfrc2 chipset .

Does that make sense or have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick??
 
Makes sense. I have a Gigabyte with a 266 via chipset and the multiplier is a dipswitch on the board, and an XP2600 (266 fsb version)

You're saying this thing comes factory unlocked???
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Originally posted by: PraetorianGuards
Don't know if this will help, but the TeAm Anandtech page has more recent WU time data: Linkage
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shouldn't the 2200+ be faster than the 2100+ ? 😉
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Not neccassarily ,depends upon chipset & RAM timings😛

Bunker
Yep,sure does🙂 ,your 2600 will have a multiplier of x16 ,that means you have the range of multipliers from x13-x17 (it might be higher but I can't remember!😱......I'll investigate)

Yeah they go higher ,according to this site they go upto at least x18 ,with x24 possible!:Q
 
That is the warning from S@H that I'm not using the new client.

Not a problem since I fixed my HOST file. 😉 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Smokeball
That is the warning from S@H that I'm not using the new client.

Not a problem since I fixed my HOST file. 😉 🙂
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OK - I give up. I am running the 3.03 client on all my rigs, so why don't I have this message on any of my clients? 😕

 
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