f/f george wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:12:35 +0100, Barry Walsh
<bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote:

f/f george wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:52:37 +0100, Barry Walsh
<bwalsh@SPAMMERSAREVERMINindigo.ie> wrote:

Patrick Vo wrote:

Does anyone know how fast the Athlon FX-53 would process a unit?  How about the Athlon 3800+.  Thanks for your help.

My Athlon 64 3200 at 2.0GHz and socket 754 does a Classic unit in 90 to 100 mins and a BOINC unit in 130 mins give a take a few either way. Both the FX-53 and 3800 should be about 15% - 20% faster.

My Classic is about 20 or so minutes slower, are you overlocking?
What MB are you using?

The motherboard's a Gigabyte K8NNXP with a nForce 3 150 chipset. I normally do run overclocked with the bus at 220MHz, the memory at 440MHz and the cpu at 2.2 GHz. I've been running like that for some time and now I can't remember if those times I quoted are pre-overclocking or not. Adding on 10% to account for the overclock puts them more or less on a par with yours, so I'd guess they're probably overclocked times.

Okay that works for me, I have a Soyo K8USA Dragon Ultra socket 754
motherboard with an ALi M1687/M1563 chipset, not overclocked. The memory is of course ddr 400mhz, 512meg.
I do have a slow hard drive in their right now so Classic and Boinc
will run on a faster one after I get it up and running the way I want
it to. I do have a 133 speed drive but not in their right now.
Eventually it will have 4 hard drives and 1 dvd/cd/r/rw drve.
It may have more hard drives later on but not in the near future. It
can handle up to 8 drives total with the SATA and Raid, not counting
the floppy.

Is that ALi chipset any good? I know it's really and AMD one that they bought, but I'm skeptical about them given their lack of new products are drivers.

I'm seriously tempted by a SATA raid array as well. Adding in two 250 Gbs to give a quick half terabyte of space would be real welcome.