I honestly don't even see wasting the wats to crunch a unit every 30 hours.
Like I said, I think my machine is getting 'unefficient' at crunching.  The
newer machines can do 3 times as much at the same electric cost.  Na, I
don't feel like I'm contributing much.  In fact, lately it's boiled down to
the fact I like to leave my machine on and not wait for it to shutdown or
bootup all the time..In the meantime it might as well be doins SOMEthing...
Nick

"Seti Cruncher" <SetiCruncher@"NOSPAM"WildMail.com> wrote in message
news:9Cf_b.36777$D_5.21847@edtnps84...

I feel for both of you.  I run a single machine and do my part to
"contribute" to the science as it all adds up and all counts in the big
picture, but sometimes it seems like our tiny contribution doesn't mean

much

when you see people with University computer departments farmed into SETI
producing hundreds (maybe even thousands) of WU's a day.

  I have an old machine gathering dust that used to pump out a WU every

30+

hours, I've considered adding it to my current system for the sake of SETI
but think I'm going to sit back and see how the BOINC testing goes before

I

look at maybe building a farm of machines dedicated to the project.  If

the

Beta testing can bring the processing time down to a reasonable time it

just

maybe feasable to hook up some older machines for strictly the BOINC
project.

SC


"Nick N" <nnote@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:cnb_b.24286$o52.2696@fed1read02...

Hahahaha! Comparitivly, I suppose, but.....Compare my machine to those

that

are blowing through w.u's in 3 hours and well, my butt is dragin...  I

feel

for ya Larry, my next wish on a star will be a p4 will fall out of the

sky

for ya!
Nick