SETI going Slow on P3 700@980???

[Jutny]

I have my P3 700e running at 980 and i was thinking that i am running SETI awufl slow, i am fairly new to SETI and have completed 5 work uints in 76:39 (15: and change/WU) I thought that that is sort of crappy and it should be running faster....

Also, i am running win98se and SETI@Home client ver. 2.04. Is there a newer verson or some sort of settings that i can tweak to make it go faster. i can crack rc5 at 2.7 Mkeys/sec and ogr at 6 something

HELP?

 

[TuffGuy]

you probably have the visual screen saver enabled. set the screen saver to go to blank screen after 0 minutes. also, make sure that data analysis always runs.

my p3-700@1000 does each packet in under 4 hours.

 

[Chintan]

if you want it to run faster, change your RAM timings to 2-2-2 in your BIOS. This will significantly decrease the time it takes to process WUs. Also, download the beta 2.7 GUI client. It is optimized to run better on PIII systems.

Do a search in the Distributed Computing forums under "beta 2.7" and you will find the link.

GO TA!! 🙂


EDIT - it will decrease the time, not increase it.

 

[Sisyfos]

<< if you want it to run faster, change your RAM timings to 2-2-2 in your BIOS. This will significantly increase the time it takes to process WUs. >>



Hehe, TA'ers giving instructions on how to increase WU times. That's a new one.

&quot;If you can't beat 'em, tease 'em&quot; 😛

 

[Jutny]

just a scrolling marquee that says [H]ard|OCP

 

[Chintan]

<< << if you want it to run faster, change your RAM timings to 2-2-2 in your BIOS. This will significantly increase the time it takes to process WUs. >> >>





<< Hehe, TA'ers giving instructions on how to increase WU times. That's a new one >>



ok.. thanks for the catch. i didn't even realize that 🙂

 

[Sukhoi]

Try turning off that screen saver and putting on the SETI screen saver that's set to blank screen mode. I bet your WU times will drop a lot. Also, are you on Team AnandTech? I think I remember your handle from when I did the August monthy graphs, but you're talking about a HardOCP screensaver. 🙂

 

[Jutny]

well it funs a fu*kload faster with the beta 2.71 and with the seti screensaver runnin, ive done 50% in 2:30

Thank you all for your help, does any one know what a p3@980 should be doing in SETI?

Is there anyway to gove SETI almost all available bandwidth(besides running nothing but explorer, systray...)?

 

[Jutny]

i am on team anandtech, but i rely on [H]ard|OCP for multiple daily updated about overclocking genre stuff

i am also on team anandtech for rc5

 

[JWMiddleton]

Hi Jutny,

How you change your RAM timing depends on your mobo, BIOS and RAM. At the speed you are running your RAM, it has to be VERY good quality to support CAS2 at 140 MHz FSB. I have a PIII-700 running at 910 MHZ (130 MHz FSB) that completes a WU in 4.5 hours. When I started it took nearly 14 hours as I was running in ScreenSaver mode. Then I downloaded a program to cache WUs and a command line interface (CLI) and my times dropped to what I mentioned above.

I have 256MB PC133 Micron CAS-2 RAM that I run at the FASTEST memory setting and at CAS-2 with FSB set to 130 MHZ. It will not run at those setting at 133 MHz FSB. Thus, I've determined that I get better results by reducing my CPU speed and uping my memory speed. I have an ASUS CUSL2 mobo (i815e) that is very pickey at 133 MHz.

Good luck!

 

[TuffGuy]

Jutny - v2.70 is even faster than v2.71. my p3-700 usually runs at 980/1000 (day/night) and my times are between 3h30min and 4h while i'm using the computer. if i let seti run alone w/o ANY interference, i get times between 3h5min to 3h30min. (with the blank screensaver)

 

[Jutny]

where can i get 2.70?

 

[Assimilator1]

It's a beta client that wasn't supposed to be generally avialable ,though their were many links to it in this forum some have been pulled because SETI noticed &amp; weren't happy about it