seti@home

[fluxquantum]

i have my p4 1.6a overclocked to 2.3 GHz. is seti@home a reliable stress test for it?

 

[CrazySaint]

Prime95 is the standard stress/stability test for CPUs, get the link from the FAQs, Drivers, Benchmarks thread that's stickied to the top of the forum. Btw, what voltage do you have your CPU set at and what RAM?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: fluxquantum
i have my p4 1.6a overclocked to 2.3 GHz. is seti@home a reliable stress test for it?

If you aren't crunching SETI already we could sure use you on Team Anandtech PM me or stop by the Distributed Computing forum and say hi and ask any questions you would like answered and you will get tons of help

 

[deerslayer]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: fluxquantum
i have my p4 1.6a overclocked to 2.3 GHz. is seti@home a reliable stress test for it?

If you aren't crunching SETI already we could sure use you on Team Anandtech PM me or stop by the Distributed Computing forum and say hi and ask any questions you would like answered and you will get tons of help

You will definitely have no trouble at all getting help over at the Distributed Computing forum, there's always someone ready to answer any questions you have.

Be careful tho, once you get started on SETI, you might get hooked

 

[Actaeon]

I'd say SETI is a very good tester of stablity for long term use, and "burning-in".

Prime95 would be a better "stress tester" to make sure your OC is stable.

 

[fluxquantum]

CrazySaint, i have my voltage set at 1.6 right now. i am also using pc800. i flashed my p4t-e with the asus p4t533-c bios. things have been stable for about a week now. hopefully they will remain that way.

 

[fluxquantum]

DAPUNISHER, i would love to join Team Anandtech. i am headed off to bed for now but will get back in touch with you guys tomorrow morning. thanks for all the nice replies.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: fluxquantum
DAPUNISHER, i would love to join Team Anandtech. i am headed off to bed for now but will get back in touch with you guys tomorrow morning. thanks for all the nice replies.

Cool! SETI@home will start spitting out work units in unrealistically short times of a few minutes apiece if your system is borderline. May I recommend the CLI client, since it crunches the fastest and works the system the hardest. Excellent instructions on using the CLI client, with SETIDriver to keep work units lined up for it, right here:
SETI install guide (assuming you run Windows)

 

[Migroo]

You should get some nice SETI WU times with that rig

 

[Confused]

I would recommend Prime95 for short term, and Seti for long term


However, saying that, Prime95 will crash after 10 secs on my system (Ahtlon XP 1800+ @ 1686 (147x11.5)) but will run Seti, and everything else i use, perfectly fine for weeks without needing a reboot! Only time i reset is to change hardware! (borrow cdrom for another machine etc)


As MANY others have said, drop by the DC forum, you will generally get an answer very quickly regarding almost anything, as we have people from all over the world, and therefore someone is almost always lurking there


Confused