On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> To speed up seti in Windoze you have to change the setting on the
> screen saver to blank out the screen. I think it's in the
> advanced settings. All that graph drawing the screen saver uses
> up tons of resources.
> Even with that Mandrake 7.0 is about 2 hours quicker (16 vs. 18)
> per unit on my Celeron 333@417 with 96 meg ram.
>
> Trevor
Number crunchers like Prime95 and Seti are sensitive to ram/cache
timmings and latency. To *really* fine tune performance for these
apps, regardless of OS, run your ram at 2-2-2, pre-charged, as fast
(mhz) as it'll stand with -0- errors, and balance your proccessor's
L2 latency to the best wait states for those ram timings. memtest86
is good for this (Winblows or Linux versions). The mhz AMD or Intel
rated the cpu at has not to much to do with performance..... your
motherboard, ram, and cooling DOES. 'Course that eliminates all
ready mades right there ;->
[p3-450 at 608 mhz, 2.18v Vcore, 256 'pc100' ram at 135mhz CL2-3-3,
3.54v IO, L2 at 3 waits, 44C internal max., on a SY-6ba+III)] ;)
'cpuburn' is a much better test than Seti or Prime95, also comes
in linux or winblows versions.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
