Windows 2003 + SETI

[Neurodog]

Has anyone tried or is running seti with windows 2003?

I'm just wondering if it's crunching any faster?

Thanks

 

[MoFunk]

I had a beta version running for a while. I did not notice a difference.

 

[Freewolf]

Originally posted by: Neurodog
Has anyone tried or is running seti with windows 2003?

I'm just wondering if it's crunching any faster?

Thanks

?
Do you mean longhorn? ( I think that's what they're calling it now )

 

[Mardeth]

Originally posted by: Freewolf

Originally posted by: Neurodog
Has anyone tried or is running seti with windows 2003?

I'm just wondering if it's crunching any faster?

Thanks

?
Do you mean longhorn? ( I think that's what they're calling it now )

Nope.

Windows 2003. Its mainly for servers.

 

[Confused]

2003 is basically a cut down XP with a few added server features (more connections possible, AD etc).

It should peform almost identically to a Windows XP machine of the same spec.


Confused

 

[Robor]

I've got it on a laptop @ home. Compared to XP/2K I don't notice a big difference one way or the other.

 

[seaquake]

I had it running on my XP1800+ at home with 512 PC2100. Virtually no difference between 2003 and 2000 server. There might be a fraction of an improvement considering a lot of services are shut off on 2003 by default. But no ground-breaking improvements. Spend the money that you would pay for 2K3 on more hardware

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: seaquake
I had it running on my XP1800+ at home with 512 PC2100. Virtually no difference between 2003 and 2000 server. There might be a fraction of an improvement considering a lot of services are shut off on 2003 by default. But no ground-breaking improvements. Spend the money that you would pay for 2K3 on more hardware

Spend money on Windows 2003...? That concept seems foreign to many members around here.

Needless to say, that's why I'm still running Windows XP, rather than "upgrading" to the "latest and greatest."

 

[networkman]

You should do like I did and join a local Microsoft user group. At last month's meeting they had a drawing and were giving away a few copies of Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition(scalable to 8-way CPU) with 25 users! :Q I happened to be one of the lucky ones!

It's an NFR but not crippled in any way. I had to do a registration process, so the product is tied to my ID(so no sell or copy), but what the hey - now I've got a nifty legal server license to play with for the domain at home.

As for speed, I've got it running on an XP2500+ with 512meg DDR and haven't noticed any speed difference as compared to a similar system running Win2K Pro.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I'm testing/learning a 2k3 enterprise server 120day eval right now, and its running slower than when I had win98 on it.