>I participated in GIMPS from the very beginning, yet trying to join it with
>386-SX. And now I see that my P5-166 (SDRAM, MMX, Intel) doesn't get
>from Primenet anything for LL-test quite awhile. Since I'm going to buy a
>new desktop soon and consider its suitability for GIMPS to be a certain
>indicator of satisfactorily performance, I wonder what computers get
>exponents for a test now? Four months back?
My P-II 300 is still getting exponents and crunching away.
I'm suggesting to anyone who can afford it, get a P-II 400 today. 128MB ram.
~6-9GB disk. 440BX based motherboard (I like the Asus P2B series). Fast AGP
graphics (8-16MB of video memory).
-jrp