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len444
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| regarding the speed advantage- they must be handing out some 900 series wu's that are high point gromacs, and can be crunched faster. having the 3.25 beta client helps keep the -forceasm flag active, so your certain to get the ~20% performance increase for each wu crunched. the -advmethods flag is probably helping you to get hooked up w/ a specific server that is handing out those wu's. if you look at the current projects, and then check to the right side of the server stats page, you'll see adv which hooks you up w/ those servers. so far, -advmethods = gromacs, which can be crunched faster than tinker due to some coding advantages (like assembly code= sse optimizations). |
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len444
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:43 am Post subject: |
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gamepyrate, look up the team at www.statsman.info and you'll see that you just handed in a 65 point wu, which is more than likely a 900 series wu. seems that once you dial in to a specific server, you'll get that server for a while.
edit: appears that multiple wu's handed in at the same time, will get registered in the same time period.
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joshvee
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| Len444 wrote: | | seems that once you dial in to a specific server, you'll get that server for a while. |
Thats exactly what I noticed  |
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Tulatin
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| this means i'll be getting the 70-point tinkers for a while... |
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len444
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Tulatin wrote: | | this means i'll be getting the 70-point tinkers for a while... |
i found that if i stopped the client, and then deleted config, queue.dat, work folder, and fahcore_65.exe, and then redid the config w/ the -forceasm, and -advmethods flags it would hook up w/ a server giving out gromacs wu's.
yeah, so we won't see you posting points for a while then  |
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Tulatin
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually, i tried that. IT still gives them to me... Oh well... from 140/400 i trek on. |
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gamepyrate
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Well sodsm live, here is my full system specs:
Shuttle AK37GT/R KT400 board
Athlon XP 2400+
256mb of Kingmax RAM, 256mb of I can't remember, like Tiny or something RAM.
GeForce1 w/ 32mb SDR
Two 80gig 8mb cache WD's on RAID
One Quantum 40gig 2mb cache
That's about it I guess. |
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len444
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| gamepyrate wrote: | | Also my other computer is a Gateway AMD Athlon 800mhz w/ 256mb SDR Ram, run also 23/7. |
gamepyrate, can you look up in the fahlog.txt files to see what is stated when the above comp first starts a wu? i'm curious if it states "3dnow!" or "sse speed boost ok"? just wondering if there are sse instruction sets on that particular cpu? |
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gamepyrate
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| It only has 3dNow boost enabled, not SSE stated anywhere in the log.. |
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len444
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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ok, this is what people say at fah forums regarding assembly codes on athlon cpus. they are saying sse assembly codes start w/ the palomino cpu's (1500+ and higher), and 3dnow starts w/ the athlon cpu's (not sure about the k6III cpu's- i read that there are some unused forerunner optimizations on the k6-III cpu's). then there are 3dnow! and 3dnow!+ optimizations, so i can be confusing. anyway, 3dnow! must help speed things up somewhat.
just exactly where sse optimizations appear on athlon cpu's is still not 100% known, but so far it can be assumed to be w/ the athlon xp cpu's for now.
btw, how much cache is on the 800mhz athlon? just wondering if it happens to be an athlon classic w/ 512kb cache?
btw, thanks for taking the time out to check the fahlog 
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