Subject: Re: SETI@home receives only 50% CPU time?
From: John
Date: 16/12/2003, 07:35
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

In article <FuvDb.201663$ri.28427773@twister.nyc.rr.com>, sweet
<sweet430@hotmail.com> writes
My Specs:
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Windows XP Pro
MB: ASUS P4P800 - 800 FSB
CPU: Intel P4 3.00 GHz - 800 FSB
GC: ASUS Radeon 9600XT
RAM: Twin Corsair 512MB = 1 GB Dual channel DDR 400
HD: 2x80 GB configured as RAID0 160GB HD
PWR: Enermax 460W
CASE: Lian-Li PC-61

It takes about 3 hrs. to finish a wu - compared to my old machine which took
about 16 hrs (PIII/450).

With a spec like that, a single instance of the CLI should be knocked
off in ~ 2 hours or less. 

My dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon, on a 533 MHz FSB and XP Pro, does so in approx
2.25 hrs. When I ran 2 instances of the 3.03 CLI this dropped to 3.25
hrs, and with 4 instances of the CLI it averages 5.25 hours, due to the
shared memory and bus.
-- John Clark