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User Two Send message Joined: 23 Nov 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 23,530,155 RAC: 14 |
I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake... U2 |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. It must have been an ABIT BP6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6 Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
My host 1033899 is what I used all through SETI Classic and came to SETI_BOINC with. In that time period it had 80 MB RAM, I upgraded to 128 MB when SETI@home Enhanced was being tested at SETI Beta.Joe Did you use an registry 'hack' so your CPU type is shown as "200 MHz. Pentium MMX OverDrive"? I think 'old' BOINC versions get this info from (on XP, the place may be different on Windows 95): [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0] ... and 'new' BOINC versions - from CPUID Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I started with a dual Celeron machine. It was an overclocked dual processor machine, Asus BP6(?) motherboard with dual Celeron 300s running at 450. I believe I was running a flavor of Red Hat or an early version of Mandrake... Oh the days of the BP6. Did you ever get the adapters to run dual coppermine cellerons or go for the single tualatin? SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
My host 1033899 is what I used all through SETI Classic and came to SETI_BOINC with. In that time period it had 80 MB RAM, I upgraded to 128 MB when SETI@home Enhanced was being tested at SETI Beta.Joe Yes I did, well spotted. Win95 didn't set that registry key, so the CPU type was "unknown" without some help. I chose to add the key with that human readable description. Joe |
CalicoSkies Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 31 Credit: 1,352,098 RAC: 4 |
I joined SETI@Home in 1999 using a 300MHz AMD K6-2 system with 32MB RAM that I built. It would usually take maybe 3-4 days to complete a work unit. |
morpheus Send message Joined: 5 Jun 99 Posts: 71 Credit: 52,480,762 RAC: 33 |
Started with an Pentium (P54CS) 200 MHz, 96 MB RAM and Win95B (later Win98SE). Even my older dual core smartphone is x times faster today. ^^ .:morpheus:. |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
I don't remember what I started with; most likely whatever the "Wintel" flavor of 1999 was. A new PC was the norm every two years or so back then. The earliest computer I have listed in "my computers" is an "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz" with Rambus DRAM. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2360001 I did some rough math and what I use today crunches 250 times faster. |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
I started with three AMD K6-2, 350's, a K6-300, (later upgraded to an Intel P-III, 600), with one system on Win 2K, and the rest on Win XP Pro SP-2. The K6-2, 350's all had 10GB HDs, and I don't remember what HD was in the P-III, 600... Excelsior, K6-2, 350 Andromeda, K6-2, 350 Intrepid, P-III, 600 One of the K6-2, 350's is now missing from my computer list... Then I got a hold of my first Athlon system: Excalibur, Athlon (original... Speed: Unknown/Don't remember) Now, I only crunch on two machines: Constellation, Athlon XP 1.79 GHz Farragut, Athlon II Constellation is on Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4, and Farragut is on Win 7 Home Premium x64. (Probably more than you wanted to know...) TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Oz Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 233 Credit: 200,655,462 RAC: 212 |
@ Link, You must be right - looking back in the pile of "spare parts" it was more likely a DX4-100 or a slot1 350 or 400... I found a slot1 800 as well with a triple fan cooler - Ha! Member of the 20 Year Club |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Hmmmm....if memory serves, the cpu cache was a separate chip on the mobo, which I replaced. 233mmx. The board sqwaucked at much over stock. Baby's first mobo...LOL. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
I started with Classic SETI on January 8, 2001 and moved to BOINC when Classic SETI shut down with the following hardware:
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User Two Send message Joined: 23 Nov 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 23,530,155 RAC: 14 |
I ran the dual Coppermines. I wish I could recall what I had to do to get the cpus to each run the old seti classic work units. But what the heck, I couldn't even recall the motherboard manufacturer. <grin>. |
BMH Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 419 Credit: 166,294,083 RAC: 125 |
My first computer to run SETI@home was an AMD K6-2 368MHz with 128MB RAM, running first Windows 98, then later ME, and then I think I squeezed XP on it. Brian. |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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