WU times jumped up by 1hr

[PraetorianGuards]

Hi, I'm only running one comp for S@H but in the past couple of weeks I've seen my wu times jump up by nearly an hour. This happened after I installed a new heatsink/fan. Temps are lower than before so I don't think that's the problem. I've also added some more ram (512mb now) and a new tv card. Nothing else has changed, running XP with an Athlon XP 2000+. Has this happened to anybody else or is it just me? Does anybody have any tips to lower wu times?

 

[onebadv6]

What kind of MB do you have? I know the Nforce2 boards have a function to throtle back the cpu if it gets to hot.
Maybe your not getting the cooling that you did with the past fan and heatsink?

 

[RaySun2Be]

What software/drivers did you install with that TV card? Check to see if there are new apps/services running that could be stealing processing time.

The hardware upgrades shouldn't affect your times, unless you changed some BIOS settings.

 

[DarkMajiq]

My thoughts are similar to Ray's... I would check to see whether the TV card may have installed some new software that's running all the time, and thus stealing some time from SETI.

 

[mechBgon]

The other thing that might be increasing WU times is if you have your RAM running out-of-sync with the CPU's FSB speed. That raises the latency and may be negating the theoretical benefit of the extra bandwidth.