KG7-Raid versa KT7-Raid : Seti @ Home

[Mark Ryan]

Could some one please tell me what I am missing here.

The KG7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 14hrs 45mins, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb DDR266 (Generic Brand).

The KT7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 8hrs 55min, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand)

Why is the KT7-Raid faster?

 

[Matt (38)]

do you have the screen saver on. If you do make sure the go to blank screen box is checked in the settings. Both of them should be going faster thatn that. My comp that is running at 1.8ghz averges 5hrs 19min. and that is with lan and sound on board. I have all of mine running full time and no screen saver. I ran for a year b4 I realized what a differance it made. Cut my times by a third at least. Hope this helps. matt ps on the why is the kt7-raid faster I would guess vid card?

Mark Ryan wrote:

Could some one please tell me what I am missing here.

The KG7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 14hrs 45mins, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb DDR266 (Generic Brand).

The KT7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 8hrs 55min, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand)

Why is the KT7-Raid faster?

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[Nick M V Salmon]

"Mark Ryan" wrote

Could some one please tell me what I am missing here.

The KG7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 14hrs 45mins, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb DDR266 (Generic Brand).

If you're running the Command Line Interface (CLI) client then this machine ought to do average (0.417) Angle Range (AR) WUs in about 3hrs 20min. Running the screensaver GUI can take up to 100% longer because of the CPU cycles wasted drawing the 'pretty graphics' but nothing like 14h45m.

Other processes can take a bunch of cycles away from SETI - Eg. especially games or a software DVD player but the average processing time ought to be a whole lot faster when it's only doing SETI WUs...

The KT7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 8hrs 55min, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand)

If you're running the CLI client then this machine ought to do average AR WUs in about 3hrs 35min. Even running the screensaver GUI it shouldn't take anything like 8h55m...

Why is the KT7-Raid faster?

You're using it less for other things than the KG7..?

[UK]_Nick...

 

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Mark Ryan wrote:

Could some one please tell me what I am missing here. The KG7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 14hrs 45mins, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb DDR266 (Generic Brand). The KT7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 8hrs 55min, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand) Why is the KT7-Raid faster?

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Precisely the =same= work unit ???

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[Mark Ryan]

Matt,

Hope it's not the video card as this unit, the KG7-Raid is the GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb, and the KT7-Raid is the 32mb Radeon 7500.

On the issue of screen saver, that is, I think the difference the lady (my missues) has Seti on constant.

Thanks,

Mark

"matt" wrote:

do you have the screen saver on. If you do make sure the go to blank screen box is checked in the settings. Both of them should be going faster thatn

that.

My comp that is running at 1.8ghz averges 5hrs 19min. and that is with lan and sound on board. I have all of mine running full time and no screen saver. I ran for a year b4 I realized what a differance it made. Cut my times by a third at least. Hope this helps. matt ps on the why is the kt7-raid faster I would guess vid card?

Mark Ryan wrote:

... clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand)

Why is the KT7-Raid faster?

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Regards,

Mark

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[Bob Troll]

Hey Mark

I changed out the screen saver version in favor of the command line style and there is a dramatic difference in time spent on a packet.

I have a KG7 running a amd 2100 palomino in a stock configuration with 512 ram and a ti 4200 vid card. It sounds similar to your configuration but my clock is at about 1739mhz.

It runs off a packet in about 3hrs and 30 minutes or a bit less depending on how much activity I am doing with it while it runs 24/7. I'm using the machine right now to do some emailing and NG reading. My xp machine with a tbred 2400 also running stock with 512 ram is cranking them out in about 3 hours flat, give or a take a few minutes.

You would be dazzled at how much faster the machine will spew packets if you change over to the command line version. While I was reading I didn't notice what OS you were running on the machine, but in any case there is an awesome self installing package with all the latest drivers all set for you at:
http://members.home.nl/marcel.zuiderveld/

Although this fellow is in the netherlands, it is all in English as well as the client itself. This installer will attempt to uninstall the screen saver version for you, but I would recommend finishing off the packet you're working on now, uninstall the SS version and go ahead and slap this in. I am running this same software on a win98se and a xp machine with no issues to report.

The self-installer has not failed to install perfectly and makes it real easy to get it up and running with little or no user intervention.

I highly recommend it to you and/or anyone else interested. Don't forget to bookmark the page as it is a real biotch to try to locate.

Regards, Bob Troll

Mark Ryan wrote:

Could some one please tell me what I am missing here.

The KG7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 14hrs 45mins, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb DDR266 (Generic Brand).

The KT7-Raid completes a Seti unit in 8hrs 55min, the CPU is XP1800 clocked to 1.8Ghz, I have 512mb PC133 (Crucial Brand)

Why is the KT7-Raid faster?