TBird vrs PIII in SETI@Home

[jclw]

Just another little benchmark thingy FYI:

I run the SETI@Home program on 4 different computers. Here are the types of computers and the time it takes for each computer to complete one workunit (with no other programs running):

486-100 Dell laptop 24ram
- 155hrs/workunit
(it keeps going and going and going...)

Celeron-500 Dell laptop 64ram
- 25hrs/workunit

PIII-500 Asus BX chipset (o/c @ 600MHz & 120FSB) 128ram
- 15hrs/workunit

TBird-900 Asus KT133 chipset 128ram
- 4hrs/workunit

My Tbird-900is running nearly 4 times faster then my (overclocked) PIII-"600"!!!

SETI@Home homepage: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

If you use SETI@Home get SetiSpy: http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/

 

[Guest]

There is something wrong with your PIII 500/600 time.

MY PII 450 (no oc) does a work unit in 8 hours on average (between 7:15 and 8:30 over 289 workunits.) Also with a BX chipset.

 

[andrew_mani]

that not really fair for the P3

your t-bird is faster because it has an extra 300Mhz to work with

 

[jclw]

8hrs on a PII-450? Wow. Is that using the GUI or the command line program? I'm going to try running the command line program and SetiDriver to see if that speeds it up.

Don't know why else it would be so slow - In every other way it behaves like a PIII-500 (600). SiSoft Sandra 2000 gives a CPU Dhrystone of 1617 MIPS, and a Whetstone of 802 MFLOPS.

 

[Guest]

What core has teh PIII got???

M

one of the first UK T-Bird users....

 

[Guest]

I am running SETI on 2 PCs
Win NT PIII 500 - 6 - 7 hours
Win 98 PII 400 - 8 - 10 hours

The benchmarks on the new P4 1.5GHz? 155 minutes(2.5 hours)
There is defintely something up with your PII. Take a look at http://www.liquid2k.com/setiathome for some tips.

 

[jclw]

My PIII has a Katmai core

I'm running the command line version with SETIDriver now and the PIII-500 (600) says it'll finish the workunit in about 5 hours. That's quite a difference. I wouldn't have thought the GUI version would be 3 times slower...

The TBird-900 still says 4 hours/work unit using the command line program and SetiDriver

SetiDriver: http://home.sprintmail.com/~obermd/SETIDriver/

Thanks everyone for all the info<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by JCLW on 12/13/00 03:06 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Grizely1]

Sure it's fair. If you do some math calculations (everyone can, unless you dropped out of highschool), you'll figger that 900MHz being 4 times faster than 600MHz doesn't equal out.

 

[Guest]

On 2 machines:

PIII 550, 128MB RAM, Win95, graphic client: 9.5 hrs/wu
PIII 650, 128MB RAM, Win2k, command line client: 6.5 hrs/wu

 

[jeffg007]

you on the tom's hardware team?
join here!
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Jeff

 

[Guest]

My PIII600e@800 runs a work unit in about 5hrs.Does this sound about right?

 

[Tormented]

P3 - 500 Katamai 7 hours command line
p3 - 600 Katamai 6.3 hours Command line.
p - 233mmx 27? hours Command Line NonKatamai 😉

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