Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> wrote:

DaveT wrote:

Skywise <into@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:
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DaveT <svirtftcyt@yahoo.com> wrote in

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Skywise <into@oblivion.nothing.com> wrote:

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Great to hear that you got it working. Maybe there's hope for me after I 
upgrade my machine.

On a side note; I just installed the free Avast! (http://www.avast.com) 
on my laptop running Windows 7 x64. It works great.

Thanks for this info. How did you happen to come by Windows 7? 

Getting antivirus support for XP64 has been difficult because XP64 
didn't catch on enough before Vista came along, so the vendors
don't want to bother with it. ArcSoft TotalMedia Extreme, 
necessary for my Hauppague 1212 HD PVR, doesn't have 64 bit
support, so I have to maintain 32bit and 64bit machines

Unfortunately, I could only get a complimentary academic copy 
of Vista32, not Vista64, so for 64 bit I have to use XP. 

How is Win7 for those who weren't crazy about Vista? I threw my 
Vista in the bit bucket. The last straw (of many) was that I 
couldn't setup multiple file associations with Vista like I could 
with every other windows. For example, I might want choose to 
open an MP3 with WMP, WinAmp, CoolEdit 2000, CoolEdit PRO, etc.
by right-clicking. Vista refused to let me do this.

BTW, my machine is chewing through these CUDA units in about
2:15 - 2:30. The main impediment seems to be getting the server
to make enough of them to keep up. The "Passively cooled" $40
Gigabyte GeForce 8400 GS seems to be dissipating heat adequately
through its "vertical radiator". I wonder how Astropulse units will
slog along when they become CUDA-capable?

The 8400 "only" has eight "engines" or "pipelines" or whatever. 512 MB seems
to be enough, though. I guess 16 pipelines would be faster. I don't know
how the 8400 works with 3D games, I've never bought or played one. The 
"show graphics" button is grayed out for the CUDA Seti units, so I don't
know how fast the graphics move. 

I haven't tried running CPU and GPU units at the same time because I can't
download a backlog of GPU units, and it seems like if Boinc it has CPU 
units, it won't DL any GPU units (or something like that). 

Dave