Is it worth it?

For games, no. With as much processing power and RAM as you already have, your limiting factor is your graphics card. Save up for a top-end Radeon or GF-FX or just live with what you've got.

"<i>Let's see what <b>Paragraph 84-B</b> has to say about it.</i>" - Thief from <A HREF="http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030724" target="_new">8-Bit Theater</A>

Thanks all for the VERY swift responses. that helps alot, now all that is left to do is debate over 9800pro etc or wait for the supposed new Graphics Cards from ATI and NVIDIA that are due out at the end of the year to replace the 5900Ultra and 9800pro.

Give a lazy man an easy job and he'll find an easier way of doing it.
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Actually Sapphire has released a fanless 9800 Pro. Here is a review at <A HREF="http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/sapphire_ultimate_eds.shtml" target="_new">HotHardware</A>.

Sweet.

It's about flirking time too! I was beginning to think that Sapphire wasn't going to even bother. Granted I still may get the fanless 9700 Pro just for cost reasons, but it's nice to know that I have options. (And really nice to know that if needs be I could go as low as a 9600 Pro and still be fanless.)

"<i>Let's see what <b>Paragraph 84-B</b> has to say about it.</i>" - Thief from <A HREF="http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=030724" target="_new">8-Bit Theater</A>

i am not gonna buy any new gpus until they make them heatsink-less...thats why i have stuck with my rage pro and vodoo banshee all these years...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

trust me...it does not need it...

Until i can get a heatsink-less 5800 pro i will stick with my 8mb rage pro...or possibly go for a via gpu...or a sis trident..lol...it makes your teath clean

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

hehe

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

Wouldnt have thought it was the CPU causing bottleneck? XP2400+ is a decent CPU, mine is only a 2100 but then i have a Ti4200 so that may be making the diffence.



Give a lazy man an easy job and he'll find an easier way of doing it.
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Indeed! ... by the way is that SETI the thing where you share the number crunching from the radio telescope in (aricibo?) with loads of others round the world? ...whats it like? do you just leave youre system runing that only?

Give a lazy man an easy job and he'll find an easier way of doing it.
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Cool, have ben thinking of D/L'ing it....may give it a shot.

Cheers!

<i>"We have always been here." - Koch
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Yeah - You can set it as a screen saver, or just run it I think.. [my dad used to run it all the time].. there's no real incentive, apart from the fact it's a slightly less useless benchmark than most - it actually <i>does</i> something...

incidentally - what someone said about it looking cool... my dad (on his 166MMX) found that if he made it just go blank it was about 2x as fast at completing units... LOL..

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.

It tries to look for repeating patterns in chunks of data from some radio telescope somewhere - basically it's looking for signs of intelligent alien life (or aliens that can create radio waves anyway).. hence the name - <b>S</b>earch for <b>E</b>xtra <b>T</b>errestrial <b>I</b>ntelligence..

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$hit Happens. I just wish it would happen to someone else for a change.

Yeah, actually you can let it run in the background or you can set it as a screensaver. Never had problems with my Athlon 1.0 Ghz doing the calculations in the background. It even runs while I play Counter-Strike online. One WU would take like 24 hours to finish. Now with my 2400+ I finish a WU inside of 4 hours. BIG difference to say the least. As I surf it's running in the background. The only time I shut it off is when I'm defragging the HDDs or when the PC is off.

Here's the <A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html" target="_new">Link</A> in case you're interested.


<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=23810" target="_new"><font color=blue>My System </font color=blue></A>
<b><font color=blue>VAGABOND<font color=blue></b>

<b><font color=blue>veni,vidi, and ended up in THGC<font color=blue></b>

Here is the link to the download site (very small download)

<A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html" target="_new">http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html</A>

here is the link to the main page, you get to look at stats, like how many you have done, average time per work unit, percentile, rank, noteable workunits found and more.

<A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/" target="_new">http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/</A>

Looking foward to havin you on!


Hey, maybe we should have a THGC team or something. If there isn't one already.

I too once had money, then I got into computers...
<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6607283" target="_new"> 3DMark </A>
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=24383" target="_new"> My Rig </A>

I already run the program on my computer and yes there is a <A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_994.html" target="_new">THG team</A>.

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=23810" target="_new"><font color=blue>My System </font color=blue></A>
<b><font color=blue>VAGABOND<font color=blue></b>

<b><font color=blue>veni,vidi, and ended up in THGC<font color=blue></b>

The Radeon 9800 Pro price will be lowered in the yule season? The 9700 Pro is still $399.

Sp you ran out of tooth paste and decided to try sis- trident on your teeth. Are they pearly white yet?

oh and btw the pentium has a noisy 40mm fan on it and the pII had a big ol passive heatsink...which is now sitting atop my p!!! 700 with a 50cfm 92mm fan mounted on it...runs less than 35c full load with a 2.05 volt vcore (vs. 1.65 stock)

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

So when are you buying P4?

Sure you are with all those old Intel rigs you keep buying.

i dunno we will see who overclocks best...and who has best benchies...i am waiting for my tualatin celeron thats all i really care about at the moment...

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...

they are no match for a slot 1

Don't try to talk sense into me i am getting a tualatin celery and thats that!

3 386DX-25's...12 volts...glue some ln2 and a wicked amount of overclocking and you get a willamantee minus 36 pins, 33.75 million transistors and a couple hundred mhz...