Malcolm wrote:

~misfit~ wrote:

Malcolm wrote:

~misfit~ wrote:

That picture's being doing the rounds for a while now. I'd be
careful using it for "Prescott jokes" Strat, it looks suspiciously
like a Slot-mount Athlon in there.

Cheers,

Hey ~Misfit~
Yeah...my Prescott 3.2GHz sucks...only churns out work units every 1
hour and 12 minutes on average...sigh :(

And heats the whole house at the same time! ;-)

BTW, that's damn fast, are you sure it's not returning corrupted
data and dropping your average time because of it?

Well it is winter after all :-)

Thermaltake VM3000A Case (lots of fans)
Thermaltake 480W P/Supply (lots of heat)
ASUS P4C800-E Delux M/B
Prescott HT 3.20GHz CPU
2 x 512GB Hynix DDR400 RAM (2.5-4-4-8-4)
RADEON 9600XT video card
RAID 0 for XP (2 x Seagate 7200RPM 8MB Cache IDE 40GB)
RAID 1 for Data (2 x Seagate 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 80GB)
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D
oh and a floppy..need that to load the promise FastTrak 378 RAID array
driver when installing XP...

Not that I'm aware off, setispy log reports percentage done as
99.nn-100%....it's actually completing on average 20.09 w/u per day,
average time is 2 hrs and 24 minutes. As it's an HT CPU divide
by 2... ;-)

So I guess I'm telling porkies...but it is only one CPU...honest

Also just got a new notebook for work. Dell Latitude D600, that fair
rocks for a 1.4GHz (Has a 1MB L2 cache as well), averages a wu every 2
hours 40 minutes.

Sound's like a really nice system, obviously you built it yourself. Well
done.

I've just spent virtually the whole day building a system. Nothing like
yours though. I had an old (three years old) Abit BX133-RAID board I was
given that had died of the dreaded "crap capacitor" syndrome. It would only
run for 20 seconds or so and then die. It had 10 bulging caps. I replaced
them all with caps I removed from a bunch of P1 boards I had lying around, I
had to put a couple on 'legs' as they were too fat to fit next to each
other, three in a row, the middle one is flush but the other two are leaning
over.

The end result is currently handling the internet gateway for my LAN,
crunching SETI units (looks like 7-8 hours/unit) and playing my mp3
collection on random through the stereo. It's just a Celeron 900 on a 112Mhz
FSB (Just so I could break the gig mark <g>). It seems to be running
sweetly, I tested it with Prime95 for a few hours set up on the desk before
putting it in a full tower case. I've always liked the BX boards but they
were limited to ATA33 controllers. This board has a Promise ATA100 RAID
controller on it as well. I'm not using it in a RAID configuration, just
have a Maxtor 20GB ATA133 drive as my system drive running on the Promise
controller. LOL, I know this is ancient stuff but I'm amazed at how fast it
is compared with other systems of similar vintage, due to the fast disk
access. Now I can use all these 10-20GB drives I have lying around. I can
use up to eight IDE devices in it. mp3 and DivX storage.

Well, I'm pleased anyway. :-)  My main machine is an XP1800+ Tbred B running
at 2.1Ghz on a 200Mhz FSB, dual-channel RAM, nForce2 Ultra400 board. It
takes about 2 hours 15 minutes a unit on average.

What fun ay?
-- 
~misfit~


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