Via C3s are crap @ SETI!!

[Swanny]

It has the Samuel 2 core. I think that's about 2 cores old now (I might be wrong, though).

 

[Swanny]

BTW, is this thing any good at running D2OL?

 

[Shame]

Mt experience has been that D2OL like gHz, and doesn't care too much about FSB or cache. Dunno...

 

[n0cmonkey]

The C3 will probably be horrible at just about everything. The FSB is horrible, and even though it will run at <insert mhz> (the nehemiah seems to be most common at 533 and 800), it is not very good. Don't expect good times at just about anything (except for maybe AES on a nehemiah with proper software ).

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Kenny1234
I have a 1.6 duron at 2ghz at it gets 3hrs/WU

I have a 1.6Ghz Duron that'll do 2.4GHz .

 

[Assimilator1]

Awesome!:Q ,what WU times do you get?

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Awesome!:Q ,what WU times do you get?

Don't crunch SETI . I do F@H, and the motherboard for that chip is currently on life support, awaiting a trip into the white light of the Asus RMA department. It really sucks because I just slapped an old K6-2 heatsink on my Ti4600 to replace the crappy stock Blue Orb. You have any experience with enabling the remaining L2 cache on these suckers?

 

[Assimilator1]

No I thought about it ,but I heard you have to 'dig out' the bridges to expose them ,someone tried this on a Barton core (to enable MP) & killed it!:Q so I didn't try.!

 

[MDE]

If I had the extra $40 to buy a new one if\when I mess this one up, I'd try it. Mine is completely unlocked, but has the new packaging (just like the newer locked chips), so I'm leery or giving it a go. I already tried penciling the bridge in, and may try to expose the bridges if I'm feeling lucky (and aren't hopped up on too much caffeine ).

 

[Assimilator1]

lol

 

[BCinSC]

Would these be any good as point-of-sale terminals? Ours are P233MMx now and are slowly dying. Runs Win95 and Aloha, so don't need a speed demon (though it would be cool to crunch when not in use as on 7/24). Low power and cool temps are really high on list. If so, where can I get cheap?

 

[BurntKooshie]

Of course it sucks -- depending upon the version of the C3, it's FP unit, although (partialy) pipelined, is clocked at 1/2 the frequency of the rest of the core. That and it decodes exactly 1 x86 instruction per cycle, as compared to up to 3 on the Athlon family (and although the P4 only is able to decode 1 x86 instruction per cycle, it can issue more uops from the trace cache than a "typical" x86 instruction is broken up into). Add to that its lower frequency, and that its FSB is still limited to 133mhz (recall that the P3's with a 133mhz FSB didn't gain much from DDR, other than the reduction in memory latency).

PS -- Assimilator -- beware when you disparage Cyrix's; The Kooshie hears all

 

[Reliant]

On a side note, does anyone know how a Pentium-M chip performs in SETI?

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: Reliant
On a side note, does anyone know how a Pentium-M chip performs in SETI?

Fairly good. I get 8/day using the laptop for 8 hours @ 1000MHz.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: compudog

Originally posted by: Reliant
On a side note, does anyone know how a Pentium-M chip performs in SETI?

Fairly good. I get 8/day using the laptop for 8 hours @ 1000MHz.

1WU/hr or 1WU/3hr? (is the laptop on 24/7 or just 8 hours?)

 

[CraigRT]

I wouldn't buy a C3 if it was $5.

honestly!

 

[Confused]

Meh, for what they're designed for (low power, sff applications) they're good (well, the Nemiah isn't too bad, anyway)


Garry

 

[Assimilator1]

BK
lol ,btw the FSB isn't that much of a hinderance ,Athlon XPs do quite well even on just 133FSB SDR ,oh & they do benefit from DDR unlike the PIII.Though part of the reason DDR wasnt much faster with a PIII was the VIA chipset that was used for them ,they had poor latency (as did the KT266 for the Athlon,wasn't sorted out until the KT266a)

Good to see you about btw

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: compudog

Originally posted by: Reliant
On a side note, does anyone know how a Pentium-M chip performs in SETI?

Fairly good. I get 8/day using the laptop for 8 hours @ 1000MHz.

1WU/hr or 1WU/3hr? (is the laptop on 24/7 or just 8 hours?)

I just tested out my laptop which has a Pentium-M @ 1.5 Ghz and it came in at 2 hours 5 minutes for one work unit.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yep there damn quick for their speed!

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Yep there damn quick for their speed!

Tell me about it, I might have to start leaving the laptop on more!