Preliminary Seti Question

[osmo]

Of the x86-based cpu's, which chips are Best, Better, Good, Bad? I would like to set up 1 system to start and would like to put it on the most efficient system for it regardless of clock speed. Also, I've seen mention of OC'd cpu's affecting results? Is there merit to this? I'm Seti ignorant so please be gentle! 😉

Osmo.

 

[Polo]

Just buy a quad Xeon ! 😉

I think PIII are the most efficient, then Athlon, Duron, Celeron. Not sure of this... The chipset used is also very important.
OCed CPU can just return faked WUs at an incredible rate. You can test your CPU with this. When your WU times go down to minutes or seconds then your are at the limit. Just decrease a little your overclocking and contribute to science with the most efficiency. 🙂

Welcome to the SETI TeAm osmo ! Glad to have you on board ! 🙂 😀 😎

 

[CurtOien]

PIII's Rule for SETI
Athlon's Rule for RC5

 

[Assimilator1]

Polo said most of it 🙂,except SETI for Cyrix's is just plain funny!😛 😉 ,you would grow old before a WU is finished ,especailly with v3.03! 😉 hehe.
The Best chipsets for the Intel cpu's to run SETI are 1.BX ,2. 815 ,3.Latest VIA (I forget the numbers, 133A I think!😱)

Welcome to The Search & TA SETI Osmo 😀

BTW as an example time ,my PIII 650 @ 820 on a Soyo 6BA+III BX chipset (126FSB ,CAS2 RAM timings) does most WU's in about 6-7hrs running CLi v3.03 on Win 95c

 

[osmo]

Thanks for the information guys, it looks like I'll be installing it on a PII400@496 BX system. Now I just have to find the client! 😀

Osmo.

 

[blade47]

Make sure to get the cli it's much faster. BTW Coppermines are clock for clock the fastest consumer cpu (for seti). Especially on the BX or ZX chipset. Also bus speed & ram timings are very important. 🙂