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