On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:43:47 GMT, f/fgeorge <f/fgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

My wifes new Gateway is the same! I do NOT like the Celeron chips!!
Over however long SetiQueue does its averaging my wifes 2.4ghz Celeron
is at 7 hours 28 minutes.
We have the same setup you do.
I even did some tweaking from this web page: 
http://www.distributedatmurc.co.uk/articles/setiguides/optimising.htm
and it did not help.
MY AMD 2800+ is pumping htem out is about 2 1/2 hours. It has a 512k
L2 cache! I WILL NOT do Intel right now!
Although my sons Dell laptop, 8500, has the Pentium M chip with
a 1 meg L2 cache and he can do 2 units in 2 1/2 hours.
He was doing 1 unit in 2 to 2 1/4 hours but now runs 2 units at the
same time, so he took about a 1/4 to 1/2 hour hit, but now does 2
units in 2 1/2 hours!

I was just expecting much better results. My old Celeron 400 cranks
out WU's in 12-14 hours. It must the the 128K cache killing it.
Fortunately this is a machine I am putting together for a friend
and not mine.

Magic