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Shuxclams

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Yeah a 486SX doesnt have a co-processor, you would need a DX, but I really appreciate the effort anyway. :) Hey it would make a decent LRP router... :)













SHUX
 

Belegost

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If I'd known we were this desperate I would have brought my p5-90 online to crunch WUs. ;)
 

Assimilator1

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Hell why not?,each WU would take you about 90hrs I guess;)

sduguid
9.5 days!??? LMAO those Cyrix cpu's really did have a bad FPU didn't they!?;) .......hmm lets see ,9.5 days=228hrs ,a Pentium 100 will do a WU in about 80 hrs ,which means the Pentium is about 3x faster!:Q

My current slowest machine is a Pentium 233MMX @266MHz(76MHz FSB) ,64Mb SDRAM,CAS2,512K L2,TX chipset, this seems to do an average WU in about 31hrs which is pretty good considering my bros K6-2 @ 375 is doing virtually the same WU times!:confused:.I guess being stuck at 75MHz FSB & the weaker FPU of the K6-2 is holding things back?
Hmm ,maybe I should up his to 83MHz? ;)
 

Tarca

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Just for stats I have a Pentium 75 with 2000 and it takes 4 days 5 hours.;) which is not much but since I started it has completed 25 work units!
 

sduguid

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lol 101 hrs/WU ,that's still better than the Cyrix

If only I'd had the 120 mhz version instead of the 100 mhz chip. Imagine where I'd be in the standings! :)
 

sduguid

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It just occurred to me that that 486 might be able to do WU's if you use Linux. I seem to recall from compiling a kernel a while back that it will emulate a co-processor if one isn't present. It would be very slow but it might just work!
 

ElFenix

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someone should go find a 386 sx and see how long it would take using 387 emulation
 

micron

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Welcome to the TeAm htmlmasterdave! :D



<< someone should go find a 386 sx and see how long it would take using 387 emulation >>

Too bad I threw out an old 386SX 16MHz a few years ago :p.
 

Assimilator1

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LOL ,my girlfriend has a 386 which I'll be pulling off a few files & then scrapping it.

No I'm not gonna waste electricity on that old POS!:p;)