I have a Thunderbird 800 and I have completed a wu in under 3hrs..
The average is between 4-5. I think the fact is some wu are shorter that
others. When all is said, the Thunderbird appears to have the edge over
PIII
Art
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:17:43 -0600 "Evan T. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
One change: I couldn't add correctly and my laptop (the P3 700) has 192 megs of RAM, not 196. There's no practical difference but for the sake of correctness you might want to change it.
Two comments: One, I don't believe for one second that the top two results used 3.03. The P3 does seem to be slightly faster with SETI@home than Thunderbirds, but there's no way an 800MHz P3 would finish WUs in under 4 hours on average with 3.03. If the user meant two work units in 8 hours, that's much more plausible. The same goes for the P3 933- it wouldn't be that fast with 3.03, but would with 3.0. I'd ask anyone who didn't specify a version to say which one they're using.
Two, it wouldn't hurt to put in what chipsets the systems have. Especially on older systems, the chipset can make a big difference, but it can make a significant difference even on newer systems.
Evan
At 07:58 PM 1/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:My spreadsheet of the speed survey is available for review at:
http://www.turbont.net/crh/seti/setiresults.htm
It will continue to be updated daily as results keep coming in.
It seems clear so far that the Pentium III's are dominating as far as speed is concerned, even over much faster processors like the AMD Thunderbirds and Athlons. It's gotta be that 1 MB of L2 cache.
Thanks to all that have participated so far.
Chris
