Subject: 466 Celeron vs 650 PIII - surprisingly little difference.
From: Tony Sivori
Date: 11/04/2004, 17:53
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Recently I salvaged a computer from curbside. It turned out to be a 466
Celeron that was in need of a hard drive (the 10 gig quantum was toast)
and a cmos battery. I happened to have a spare 4.3 gig Quantum, and I got
the cmos battery at the grocery store for $2.43.

So I of course decided to put the resurrected box to work crunching for
seti.   :-)    This makes my third seti box; box number two is a 650E
(meaning 100 MHz front side bus) PIII. The PIII, when not overclocked,
tends to average about 10 1/2  hours per work unit.

I've only crunched a few work units on the 466, but it is averaging 14
hours per work unit. Considering the Celeron has only 71% of the clock
speed of the 650, has half the cache, runs on a 66 MHz front side bus, 
and is based on the PII, I was expecting it to take a lot longer.

-- Tony Sivori