My 1.4GHz Pentium 3 takes about 7:40 hrs to process a WU using the GUI
version
but not running ANY screensaver stuff, just having the GUI so I can check
what work
there is available etc.

So, actually that's not too bad.

My 1.4GHz Athlon takes about 5.5 hrs per WU which blows the Pentium out of
the water.

Going from my stats on the website for my 1.4GHz G4, it's about the same as
the Pentium 3 at the same clock speed.

Devon.

"Lazlo" <lmobrien@excite.com> wrote in message
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I'm running two dual G4's (1GHz tower with 2Gb of RAM each) and it
takes about 8hrs to process one work unit on either of them. WTF? Both
are using OS X 10.3.4 (Panther) and the Seti software appears to be
using both processors (two processors per Mac) yet I'm getting less
performance than slower Windows PC's (according to various posts in
this forum).

There is no appreciable speed up at night when the Macs are not using
any other software. Does anyone know why the Mac version (3.0.8a) of
the SetiatHome would run slower than my 800MHz single processor WINXP
PC? No other software package (like processor pigs Photoshop or Maya)
runs faster on my PC than on my Macs, so again, what gives?