would you consider SETI@home a CPU intensive program?

[Sunny129]

i dont like to waste my CPU cycles, so i became a TA member for SETI@home. i also just upgraded to a P3 700E cC0, and would like to do some temperature benchmarking, but i have no idea where to start as far as CPU intensive software goes. i was wondering if anyone considers a program, such as SETI@home, that constantly runs in the background and uses every last cycle of the CPU an intensive piece of software? and i know this other question doesnt exactly fit this forum, but does anyone have some software suggestions that would fit my needs? thanks...

 

[office boy]

Seti should do nicely.

 

[Fardringle]

If you have a task manager/monitor program, it doesn't take much effort to see that SETI uses on average over 99% of the CPU cycles, so yes, I'd have to say that it is fairly CPU intensive... 😉

 

[lane42]

Welcome to the Team Sunny129 🙂

 

[Hellburner]

🙂 Welcome Aboard 🙂

For testing purposes I've found the programs HERE to be fast and effective.

 

[Sunny129]

thanks for the warm welcome guys🙂...and thanks for the link HellBurner.

 

[Assimilator1]

Sunny129

Welcome to the team 🙂 ,in addition to the others ,SETI will only use SPARE cpu cycles ,if another program fires up that needs the cpu time then SETI will give up whats needed