Which Processor better for UD?

[Scout]

I'll admit, I haven't done any research on this, but I was wondering if any of you guys know off the top of your head which CPU works better on the UD Cancer/Smallpox resarch projects? These work units seem so variable that I can't tell from just looking at progress over time on each machine...

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[svol]

According to PooBaa UD uses a lot of floating-point (non-SSE2 I beleive) so in theory AMD Athlons should be better.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[Scout]

Rats! I just gave one of my Athlons to my wife... and kept this darn P4!!! Oh well... time to build a new one

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[svol]

You have too much money that you keep building PCs?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[Scout]

It's an addiction!

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[svol]

I have to agree with that. I already have 5 PCs at home... from which 3 are my own, one is for my brother and one for my dad.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[Scout]

I usually shop around the bargain bins and get some pretty good stuff for a song! I just picked up a cheap nForce board and have a nice little T-bred in it. This is the original nForce (not nForce2). It seems to do a few strange things, but I think I have it running stable now. The weird thing is when you change the FSB, it doesn't seem to change the bus speed, although the BIOS reports it does. How strange is that?

Scout
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[Jeff68005]

According to Orbi at the UD forum, it AMD,P3s then P4s in that order because as stated before, it's the FPU that does the real work.

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[svol]

Cool, that explains why my 933Mhz P3 performs almost as good as a 1.5GHz P4. Don't you love the fact that Intel says Mhz is all?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[Owl]

this is what i get

478 2.2ghz celeron 128k 9-12hr
478 1.7ghz celeron 128k 15-17hr
360 1.3ghz celeron 256k 10-11hr
slot1 750mhz 512k -------10-14hr

and i get crap points for realtech nic card 22 points

<font color=blue>HOSED = Horrific operating system error detected</font color=blue>

 

[Scout]

I have the same problem with the NIC... 43 points for mine... How do they figure that?

Wow... it looks like Cache makes a BIG difference doesn't it? I've Got a P4 at 2.1 with the 512 L2. I ought to check it's times against the faster (2.8 GHz.)Celeron on UD units. Hummm... I'm tryin' to remember, is there a history file somewhere of which each unit took?

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[svol]

I guess you connect to the internet through a LAN card. Then not the speed of the card but the total internet speed creates the NIC value. When I'm downloading stuff my nic gets 40 points when the connection is completely idle then I can get up to 60 points.

It is the only thing in my system bringing the points down. :frown:

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[Owl]

I would be intresting to see what
a 3COM or Intel nic gets for points
??????????????????????????????

<font color=blue>HOSED = Horrific operating system error detected</font color=blue>

 

[Owl]

I think it's brand of nic,
I may be nut's but it's worth a testing,
I see some geting 200+ points HOW ????

<font color=blue>HOSED = Horrific operating system error detected</font color=blue>

 

[Scout]

I think SVOL's right.. all three of my rigs score 43 on the network rating and I have Netgear NIC's in two and an SMC NIC in the other. It's the speed of your connection I think...and mine's not very fast!

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

 

[svol]

Yeah... I've you got a T1 or T3 line then you will easily get 200 points for the NIC. All my PCs get between 40-60 for points and I have Realtek, Via and a 3Com NIC (which connects the server to the LAN) in my network.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on

 

[silverpig]

Okay, I'm installing UD... I'll keep seti running too, I dunno, I'll figure something out.

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

 

[silverpig]

Hmm, even when I set UD to Below Normal and seti to Low, seti still takes up all my cpu usage and UD gets nothing. argh.

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

 

[silverpig]

Okay, so is this good?

CPU: 1.6 GHz Athlon XP - 100 points
MEM: 512 MB DDR - 134 points
STORAGE: 0.98 GB (I'm upping to 2.5) - 20 points
NIC: Some POS - 90 points
Overall: 101 points

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.

 

[svol]

Your CPU should score much higher... my 1.4Gz Athlon XP reached 120-130 points as default.
Set the storage to maximum... it will never use much of it anyway. Even if you don't have 10GB free and set it at 10GB it will give you points.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on