How many machines are U all using to crack RC5?

[a Bill]

Home...

PII450
PII450
Dual PII 400/1m Xeons
P3 500

Work...

P3 450
P3 450
C366
Dual P3 800
Dual P3 700/1m Xeons
P3 700/512k Xeon

 

[ArkAoss]

how do you like the xeons? r they stable? worth the money? i've never worked with em

 

[a Bill]

Xeons are stable but of no real use to most folks. Their RC5 output is identical to its counterpart at the same mhz. For example, the 400 mhz Xeons I use at home only put out as many RC5 blocks as a plain old 400 mhz CPU. The 1 meg L2 cache on each CPU I have never comes into play.

The ones I use at work are the same way. I just needed Xeons for database work and a few other programs. RC5 cracking is just a happy way to use any wasted cycles, they all run 24/7 anyway so why not?

 

[Chucky]

I started with one PII/350Mhz @ 434Mhz.
Two days ago:
4 PII from 350Mhz - 500Mhz.
2 PIII/733Mhz.
One PIV/800Mhz on the way.