Times Change (Compair CPUs)

I'm not sure if this has been done but it seems fun (I haven't seen it before so here goes.) This is straight from my account page.

First:

**ID: 2548926
**XP-HOMEHP 0.06 763
**x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 598MHz
(1 processors)
**Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
**GPU whats that? (Kidding)
**14 Sep 2006 | 20:06:26 UTC

Current
**ID: 6706743
**TrollKing
**Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
(4 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1023MB) driver: 302.80
**Microsoft Windows 8
Professional x64 Edition
**2 Jul 2012 | 8:42:29 UTC
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-James

"Catch phrase here, just wait... Its going to be witty."

I'm not sure of your rules here James...
If we're talking seti crunchers, I'm new around here so I can't go back very far, but currently I have, for WORST and BEST machines:


Worst
ID: 6648822
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz [Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4](2 processors)

Best
ID: 6656682
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31230 @ 3.20GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7](8 processors)




Now if you want to compare first owned machines, to currently owned machines, that could get really interesting.
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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

I'm not sure of your rules here James...
If we're talking seti crunchers, I'm new around here so I can't go back very far, but currently I have, for WORST and BEST machines:


Now if you want to compare first owned machines, to currently owned machines, that could get really interesting.

My first SETI cruncher was for Classic. If I recall correctly, it was a 386-20.

Current best is a core i7 quad with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M.
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BOINC WIKI

First
Compaq Deskpro 386SX.
Release date 1990 (date du BIOS) 1990 (BIOS)
Model: SLT 386s/20 SLT 386s/20
Processor i80386SX à 20 MHz i80386SX 20 MHz
Memory: 2048 KB RAM Storage Floppy 3 "1 / 2 1.44 MB. IDE Hard Disk 20 MB
Interfaces : Interface External VGA Video
Software: Ms-Dos 3.31 Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 Compaq
Updated to Dos 6.22 & Win 3.11 WFG

Current
AMD Athlon II X4 630
Gigabyte UD4P
4gb Ram
24.5tb storage
NVidia 9500GT
WHS v1
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First

1982, BBC B, 6502 2Mhz processor, 32K ram

Present

(1) Pentium D 3.2Ghz processor, 5Gb ram, Win 7 Ultimate, ATI HD4770 graphics

(2) Pentium Quad 2.4Mhz processor, 5Gb ram, Win 7 professional, ATI HD5850 graphics

I still have the BBC B and at the time playing Elite on it, was at the leading edge of gaming technology ......

First

Cyrix 686

First at seti

AMD Athlon 700.

Present

AMD FX 8150 @4.4 GHZ with ATI HD 5850.

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4.4Ghz is very nice too Mike!

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Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan,
Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, PETA Member, 1st Childhood

First

Cyrix 686

First at seti

AMD Athlon 700.

Present

AMD FX 8150 @4.4 GHZ with ATI HD 5850.

I started with a Compaq pentium 1. replaced that in 2004 with my Gateway P4, It still crunching too.

The latest comp is HP I7 920. with a little Nvidia GTS 250.
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(I'll throw my first vs current on this here list):


First:
Commodore 64
8bit 6510 Processor, 1Mhz
64K RAM


Current:
Intel Xeon E3-1230
64bit quad core @3.2Ghz
16G RAM
(I don't have any GPU's worth bragging about)


If I'm not mistaken the Xeon processor is more than 25,000 times more powerful* than C64's 6510. And my Xeon rig has 250,000 times the RAM.

We've come a long way.


*- Not a proper comparison, just quick math by comparing processing speed and bit register and core count. I'm sure the architecture changes etc. mean the Xeon is probably much more than 25,000 times more powerful than the 6510.


[Interesting side note: You think we've got fan-fare arguments about what hardware is better nowadays?... Once upon a time the ZX people used to argue with C64 folks, about differences so little our modern machines would laugh...

...was it a real figure? Does it mean that Zx Spectrum "runs at 2:1" (two times faster than Commodore 64)? I guess this is exact. But... why did you criticize people "extolling the virtues of the Spectrum"? Why did you forget the "virtues" that you were going to demonstrate? Another Commodorian Blah-Blah-Blah, eh?

My first cruncher was an Intel 233mmx.

My current best rig is an i7 920 OCd to 4.1Ghz....just a little bit faster.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

Oh, yes. Mine tend to get retired to the recycling bin - useless for anything at all when they are done.
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BOINC WIKI

Let's see... April 9th, 2002 is when I joined and SETI@Home "Classic", and if I recall correctly I started with:

Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz
1024MB of RAM PC2100 DDR SDRAM
ATi Radeon 7200 64MB AGP 4x
Windows XP Pro

I thought the project was so fun and I loved the screen saver so much that I installed it on several of my other computers I owned (Including a Pentium 166MHz w/MMX and an AMD K6 166MHz among many others). Currently I use:

Intel Core i7 960 (3.2GHz quad-core with Intel HyperThreading)
12GB of RAM
ATi Radeon HD 6970
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate


..and if I could afford the electricity, I would be running all of these computers.

All very interesting! I remember back years ago seeing SETI running on the computers in the computer lab at my grade school. That was when my interest in this project was born. Although it was a little bit of a wait before I started crunching.... Still its very interesting to compare the past computers to what we are running now. Simply stated now-a-days we are spoiled!
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-James

"Catch phrase here, just wait... Its going to be witty."