Just like to report that my pentium 60 has completed a w/u. Not a big deal. But it only does 1 a month. Weekly Outages come and go and we dont care.
At 2,762,101.00 seconds cpu time it just sneaked in before the cutoff date.
My dual Pentium 90 also returned its second w/u this month at 2,369,334.00 seconds cpu time. A real rush of speed.
Sometime next week my dual pentium 75 will finish a w/u. With another w/u the week after - Lazy thing.
I think E.T is safe from being found with this kit.
Nairb

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Wouldn't that be the irony to end all ironies? That with all the multi-core, multi-GPU rigs and six-digit-RAC power crunchers out there, the WOW! signal would be found in a workunit crunched by a CPU that identifies itself as "Family 5 Model 1"?


-- Tony D.

Well, you never know. It only takes one lottery ticket to win.

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Albert Einstein

Hey, I'm counting on something like this being possible, if to a lesser extent. When everything is working correctly, my RAC is about 11,000, which is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly in the realm of some of the insane rigs around here. The crunchers who hit the download limits have the best chance of finding something if there's something out there to find, but I like to hope that I could find something, too.

Did you consider optimizing those two with Crunch3r's opt apps?
Maybe you could complete two WUs per month :-)

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Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿

Did you consider optimizing those two with Crunch3r's opt apps?
Maybe you could complete two WUs per month :-)

The available speedup on CPUs without floating point SIMD isn't huge, about 12% on my 200 MHz Pentium MMX. But it's quite possible the "2.4L Linux x32 MMX Intel & AMD" build does not actually use any MMX instructions so would run on Nairb's hosts. The Windows 2.4 MMX builds definitely do run on Pentiums without MMX capability. Basically the MMX in the name is because there's no way to tell Intel compilers not to use MMX when optimizing.

                                                                  Joe

Wouldn't that be the irony to end all ironies? That with all the multi-core, multi-GPU rigs and six-digit-RAC power crunchers out there, the WOW! signal would be found in a workunit crunched by a CPU that identifies itself as "Family 5 Model 1"?


-- Tony D.

What would be even worse is that after a month and 2.7 million seconds he had to wait for an i7 to complete his WU so as to get credit! But I see a P4 has completed it already.

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Just like to report that my pentium 60 has completed a w/u. Not a big deal. But it only does 1 a month. Weekly Outages come and go and we dont care.
At 2,762,101.00 seconds cpu time it just sneaked in before the cutoff date.
My dual Pentium 90 also returned its second w/u this month at 2,369,334.00 seconds cpu time. A real rush of speed.
Sometime next week my dual pentium 75 will finish a w/u. With another w/u the week after - Lazy thing.
I think E.T is safe from being found with this kit.
Nairb

Do you have any clue what these Pentium 60/AMD 75 needs on Wattage?
It's a loooong Time ago that i have owned this Cooler-less CPUs...

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

it is theoretically possible to cool any of the newer CPU's without active components. But I must admit that would be a HUGE heat sink.

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MY HSF came as a stand alone Heat sink with attachment points for 120mm fans. I have 1 fan attached. W/O the fan I get temps in the 55C range with the fan im in the 45C range.

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Diogenes Of Sinope

Just like to report that my pentium 60 has completed a w/u. Not a big deal. But it only does 1 a month. Weekly Outages come and go and we dont care.
At 2,762,101.00 seconds cpu time it just sneaked in before the cutoff date.
My dual Pentium 90 also returned its second w/u this month at 2,369,334.00 seconds cpu time. A real rush of speed.
Sometime next week my dual pentium 75 will finish a w/u. With another w/u the week after - Lazy thing.
I think E.T is safe from being found with this kit.
Nairb

I don't mean to be mean or anything but after looking at your pc's do you realize that if you had a reasonably cheap quad core pc with even a low powered 9800GT that you'd save $'s on electricity plus get a much, much higher RAC at the same time than all those old kits that you have at present.

I just upgraded my Q6600 with 2x low powered 9800GT's (previously this had a 3750 doing graphics) and retired two 5200+'s plus a P4 1.8 so not only am I cutting my power bill drastically but I'm also raising my RAC at the same time (not to mention the video & sound compilation work that I do at the same time).

Cheers.

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Wiggo,
Not all of us can afford the latest and greatest. This little dual I've got is the best I could do. At one time I was running 6 different machines. All of them had either been given to me or bought for around $20. All but one could crunch in a reasonable amount of time. None of them had a great RAC but they did send in good work. All of us do what we can.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Well, you never know. It only takes one lottery ticket to win.

That's what happened here in the UK last night. Some lucky SOB won £113 million, on our Euromillions lotto.

Wasn't me... :o(

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Wiggo,
Not all of us can afford the latest and greatest. This little dual I've got is the best I could do. At one time I was running 6 different machines. All of them had either been given to me or bought for around $20. All but one could crunch in a reasonable amount of time. None of them had a great RAC but they did send in good work. All of us do what we can.

Who mentioned anything about the "latest & greatest"?

If you take a look at my pc's you'll see that I don't come anywhere near close to either (in fact my last 1 is now 2yrs old & I just upgraded a 4yr old job).

Cheers.

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It's the way to go through, if you can get hand-me-downs etc tht cost you virtually nothing.

£113mlln... What's the RAC of a 4-way quad-CPU i7-970 with quad GTX480s?

Far out... more 0ld crunchers...

Way to go. (^8

Do you have any clue what these Pentium 60/AMD 75 needs on Wattage?
It's a loooong Time ago that i have owned this Cooler-less CPUs...

Helli

For comparison two of my 0ld ones;

1995 P-MMx P55 (Family 5 Model 4 Stepping 4) with UW2SCSI pulls 120 watts and has been crunching since Jun 1999

1996 P-Pro P6 (Family 6 Model 1 Stepping 7) pulls 75 watts.

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Thanks for the Info.

That's very expensive Workunits. 30,000 Times the Cost of a Workunit done by a GTX280...

Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

yep! $89.13US last year for the P55 with an RAC 8+.

Running any nostalgic antique comes with a price but, it is $afer and cheaper than fa$t car$.

(^;

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Yes these old machines are not for full time crunching. I did put a power meter on one of these once. About 80 watts as I remember. Runs for a whole month to get 2 w/u's. Not very cost effective.
A few years ago I had over 40 modern(ish) machines running full time on different projects. But as time goes by those machines became todays junk.
I have a whole bunch of socket3 machines. Some with win 3.11 and networked.

I still find it amusing to get an old (chucked out) computer - stick linux on it and get a w/u done. But the days of the old socket 7 and older machines are numbered. The older cpu's dont have the cmov instruction so wont run fedora 8 linux or above. Just like winows98 and NT4, the old versions of linux will be no good.
So the days of "Family 5 Model 1" will come to an end. Until then I will run an old machine every now and then. I could upgrade them to pentium 120's - might only take 3 weeks per w/u then.

Nairb

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I pulled an ancient Compaq machine out of a neighbor's trash pile a few months ago, and it had XP on it, but it took nearly 20 minutes to boot up. I was doing some maintenance on some other machine and just needed a machine to live-boot for configuring a hard drive, and Ubuntu 8.04 would not even try. Had to go all the way back to 5.10 to find one that would work, and then it still took 20 minutes to boot up.

Old machines are old and slow. I enjoy having them on a shelf just to say that I have them, but that's about all they're good for.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)