tweaking this sucker

joeyd

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alright you can tell what i have by my sig... got any ideas what i can do to get the most outta cracking for this baby ... also coming on line is a p200mmz for 5 hours a day ... if i can get the temp of my duron down to about 40-45 or less cracking 24/7 i'd be happy ... i got a fop38 on there already with artic silver... going to add a 120 mm case fan right by the video card and cpu hopefully that will help a bit.. any other sugestions like tweaks or mods to get temp down and performance up ?? also my computer sometimes fails to come outta sleep mode ... whats up with that ?
 

mechBgon

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I've heard about the &quot;perma-sleep&quot; issue discussed in the Motherboards Forum, might search in there about it... but if you want more RC5 output, you probably don't want to put the system in Sleep mode anyway, as it throttles back the CPU (am I right on this with the A7V, anyone know?)

For maximum cracking, the #1 thing is really easy: run the blank-screen screensaver instead of something fancy. You can kill off background processes like Microsoft Office's &quot;findfast&quot; and other things that show up when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but in my experience the client is very efficient even when it has to co-exist with other processes. Your choice of a Duron CPU is one of the best for RC5 (clock-for-clock, the best of all is the Apple G4, *gasp*).

For cooling, I can endorse that plan to put a 120mm blowhole fan on there. I have had excellent results with that exact arrangement, it will put lots of room-temperature air right where it counts. I cut my blowholes with a fine-toothed blade on a power jigsaw. Also, if your computer isn't already on the floor, putting it down there instead of on the desk will reduce the air temperature a couple of degrees (hot air rises) and reduce your system temperature accordingly. If your power supply fan isn't already blowing air out the back, reverse the fan so that it is (be extremely cautious not to touch any of the circuitry, there is potentially-lethal amperage stored in there). Hopefully your case has an auxiliary 80mm exhaust fan on the rear panel? That is a big help too. You can increase the airflow by cutting out the metal grillework where the fan is pushing air through.

Welcome to Team Anandtech, by the way, it's great to see a new face here! : )
 

joeyd

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yea i'm trying to find a site to buy a 120mm panflo fan i hear they are the quitest ... also i now have 3 p200mmx cracking 5/5 and a duron 900 cracking 24/7(had to knock down the speed as it would go up to 50c at 923 :-( ) just figured out that i had it doing org first now its doing just rc5 and i'm getting 2.30mkey/s is that good or is that low for my speed ? oh yea also getting a p3 600 , athlon classic 700 and a p2 300 cracking whenever the user will be on
 

TwoFace

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Hey joeyd!

Just a pointer... if you get &quot;only&quot; 2.3 Mkey/s on that duron something is eating your cycles... I've got a duron at 876 and it pumps out something like 3.1 Mkey/s ...

<EDIT> I just re-read your original post... you should definitly turn off sleep mode! it kills your keyrate! go with the advice Mech gave you! </EDIT>

Hope you get the rate up, since you only deserve the best!

Oh and WELCOME TO THE TEAM!:cool:

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
 

joeyd

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alright with my case cover off my chip is running at 45 cracking and surfing and with aim up.... but with the case cover on it goes up to 50.. i need to keep the cover home or my parents will kill me the flop38 is so loud... now is there a better heat sink that will knock off at least 5 more degrees off the chip or is the flop the best ? how about the alpha with the delta black lable on that would that lower it by alot or should i keep what i have ? on that fact that something is eating my key rates it could be the asus probe which i keep open all the time and the fact that i was surfing and on aim ;-) oh one more thing . my uncle was over earlier with artic silver in a white tube but i have it in a black tube is one better than the other ?
 

jinsonxu

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Do you happen to have a software firewall? Those things eat cycles for breakfast.
 

office boy

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I don't know abou that jinsonxu,
Image Name..... PID..... CPU...... CPU Time......... Mem Usage
dnetc.exe.........1056.....97-99......21:50:47 ........592 K
zonealarm.exe...1048.....00.........00:00:07........5,312 K
 

TwoFace

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joeyd:

I don't think the probe would eat that many cycles... and I know that surfing doesn't!!

Oh and I recognize your problems with the FOP32... I've got it too... it's LOUD!:(

The software firewall might be the issue, but I've used ZoneAlarm before with NO impact to my cracking rate...

Hope you get it up!

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
 

joeyd

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no i have no firewalls running ... i've been able to get it up to 2.88mkeys but thats the max. i am running windows me which seems to be a huge memory hog. But i don't know if this affects anything. judgeing from 2cooltek i will keep the flop38. I'm trying to figure out how good it would do at cooling a 50 or 74 watt tec . thanks for the help guys
 

jinsonxu

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2.88MKeys/s max for 925Mhz? With nothing else running my chip at 807Mhz does 2.8MKeys/s max too. I'm also using Windows ME.

Use msconfig and see what else starts up. Al whole load of crap is loaded in WIN ME. I didn't disable them though. But if you disable them, you'll probably gain better results.
 

joeyd

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alright this is whats in my msconfig under startup

those that are check:
system tray
asus probe
load power profile
anvshell
load power profile (again for some reason)
scheduling agent
distributed.net client

those that are not checked:
aim
aim
scanregistry
pchealth
*statemgr

which of these should i disable to get better performance




 

jinsonxu

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Nice configuration! I've everything there checked except for aim and anvshell which i don't have. But you can get rid of task scheduler unless you use it.
 

jinsonxu

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Nope, no tweaks, everything at default except that i overclocked my PC100 ram to PC133 222. Not sure that this affects though since RC5 is mainly processer intensive.

Does anyone shadow video bios? I' thinking of turning it off in my bios.
 

TwoFace

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joeyd:

Are you running a 3d screensaver or something? Did you turn off &quot;sleep mode&quot;? Both of those will seriously impact your cracking rate! I even found that any screensaver makes a difference on my duron, so now I'm running it with no screensaver at all... I've enabled the &quot;turn off monitor&quot; option tho'

jinsonxu: seems like you're getting about what to expect if that chip is a t-bird/duron nice chip :cool:

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
 

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&quot;... I've enabled the &quot;turn off monitor&quot; option tho'&quot;

Same thing here. No stand-by anymore. Monitor sleeps after 20 minutes. However, I do disconnect my dial-up and lock my internet access with ZoneAlarm before I go to bed each morning.
 

jinsonxu

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My monitor's set to turn off after 1 minute. For maximum crack rate, i power off my cable modem AND unload my firewalls.