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1.6cpu tell me how and the specs for that system! Looking to up grade my cpu from 700@850 t-bird. Also what is the avg that the 1.6 can do?

Jeff

Yay... are we still competeing to get to top 200 clubs? do we get something special for that? anyways

Yeah Im curios as to what you guys would recommend.. i think my system is a little slow for its speed.

I have a t-bird 750 @ 825 mhz. My memory is only pc100 96 megabytes.. but i ordered a cas 2 7 nanosecond pc 133 128 megabyte module 2 days ago. So im thinking that MIGHT increase my performance.. But currently Im only getting about 10-11 hour work units.. IM using Setidriver and setispy. I have windows 2000. I cant think of anything else pertinent... I cant do much with only 1 machien, but i could increase to 3 units a day versus 2. So that would definetly help the team i think . IN anycase, tell me what you guys think I could do.. (p.s. the setiDriver priortiy is set on LOW)

--Darkphire

Hi,

Well, you've got a good base system there. That AMD should put more out than my PIII running at 815Mhz, although I have mine up to 148FSB which is pretty seti condusive.

Obviously CPU power has a lot to do with seti, but I've read that memory and cache performace are equally as important. The chunks of data that get processed are larger than the cache on an AMD or PIII so the system needs to do a lot of memory read/writes. In the scheme of things, this is slow. Increasing your memory bandwidth is a great thing.

What mobo are you using? Unless your mobo is a KT133A (133/266FSB) type you'll not be able to utilise that PC133 as well as you could be. Check out your mobo and then see if you'll get there okay - I know the ASUS is okay for this - basically you want a totally jumpered or totally jumperless board. Setting the FSB higher with a jumper (and dropping the multiplier using BIOS) often wil not work. When booting the chip will run the first few seconds at default multiplier until BIOS is loaded, but the FSB is set from power on...

Let's say you have a system you want to get to 1GHz. Your 850Mhz AMD would do that with a multiplier of 10 on a 100FSB. Now, if you drop the multiplier to 7.5 and set the FSB to 133, you have a 1000Mhz cpu again, but at a 33% increase to memory performance. BUT - if your FSB is set by a jumper and your multiplier is set in BIOS, your system will actually run for the first few moments at 133FSBand default multiplier (1130Mhz) which will usually be enough to prevent an 850CPU POSTing. Setting speeds all at jumper or all in BIOS get round this problem.

Anyway, with a bit of work you should get your times down. The CAS2 memory will really help, and upgrading from 96MB (I haven't heard of anyone running Win2K less than 128MB) will be important.

Oh yes - you are running the command line version, and not setting any screensaver - right? The command line is good for about 10% increase, and running any sort of a screensaver will eat cpu cycles, especially the really nice ones (.

Good luck,

Pete.

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Thanks MUCH for your help. I have the asus A7V i think it has kt133 on it. I figured it would be good to get more memory.. thats why im lookin forward to getting it... now is the waiting period. hehehe . 3-4 business days... ordered on friday... LOL ... tick tock =)

Anyways, thanks for your input i was worried there was something i was missing =)

thanx =) .. i have a friend who has a pIII 800, with pc 800 rdram. if he lets me put seti on that machine my wu's will really increase =)

--darkphire

Well, may not be much use to you but I got my A7V133 at T-Zone in Tokyo. Coundn't find anyone in the States to ship it, at least not for less than $150 all in.

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I find Tokyo to be very expensive on motherboards, but USD150 is not a bad price.
I got a T-Zone Taiwan gold card (gives me 10% discount in Taiwan) and it works in Japan (after long persuasion claiming it's a worldwide card...) with 5% as well!
I picked up two MSI K7T Turbo boards recently for 110USD/each, these boards supports "grandma-overclocking" so I don't need to waste too much time. Also they support BIOS upgrade over the Internet, which is very convenient since I don't have any FDD in my house.

Would be good but they don't ship international, which ain't a lot of good for me unfortunately...

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