"Black Baptist" <pray@the.church.com> wrote in message
news:Xns963D8F6D42A46praythechurchcom@Letuspray

Gary Heston rambled on in alt.sci.seti:

In article <Xns963CF00115C3Epraythechurchcom@Letuspray>,
Black Baptist  <pray@the.church.com> wrote:

I have to computers pc1=duron 1.3 ghz with 1 gig of
ram pc2=intel 2.6 ghz with 512 megs of ram it took
pc1 22 hrs to complete a unit and pc2 18 hrs to
complete a unit. Shouldn't pc2 do a unit twice as
fast as pc1?

Depends upon more than just clock speed. Is the 2.6 a
Celeron, while the
1.3 is a true P4 (or even a P3, which outperformed the
equal-clock-rate P4 chips)? How much L2 cache is in
each system? What motherboards are in the systems?
Cheap motherboads can run 30-40% slower than a good one
with identical CPUs in the. Memory type/speed and FSB
also affect performance.


Gary

PC1: AMD Duron 1.3 ghz L2 64, 1 gig pc2100 ddr sdram
specktec ram motherboard Biostar M7VIG Pro FSB 133 PC2:
Intel Motherboard FSB 233 Cpu Intel 2.6 GHZ 512 pc2100
megs of pc2100 ddr sdram specktec ram.

i get the idea you are running seti@home classic gui version

you should uninstall it and install the boinc version of seti:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_participate.php
doing this will certainly speed you up, the old classic gui was badly slowed 
by the graphics

you prob have a intel celeron (celery) 2.6ghz cpu, you fell victim to the 
mhz myth (google it)
don't worry about it too much though
22 hours and 18 hours is very slow though, more info needed if the above 
didn't help