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jeffreyloaf · Jan 18, 2001, 06:14 PM

I can't use 3.0 anymore. It refuses to give any units when I log in. I guess it's time to download the next version.

Darn, darn and double darn.

Oh well I guess new processor I bought last week will get it's work out now.

Jeff

Scotttheking · Jan 18, 2001, 10:28 PM

So now all you guys will have times like mine?
Hehehe.

Jan 20, 2001, 07:02 PM

Its still giving me units for both Mac and Windows machines today. Their servers are very slow. Don't give up on 3.0 until you absolutely must. :-)

jeffreyloaf · Jan 20, 2001, 11:44 PM

Well it's too late now I'm at 3.03 now.

But the good news is my times will slowly creep up anyway. Do you wonder why? Yes you do!!!

I'm running two machines. My newest is a 7200 WGS running at 120 mhz and it does units at about 71 hours per unit using 3.03. This is the machine draging my times up.

My number one machine is a B&W G3 that originally ran at 350 mhz but I overclocked it to 400, but; last week I bought a Powerlogix G4 upgrade that was sold to me as a 450 but I forgot about the overclocking and it was running at 500 on first boot.

I now have it running at 550 smoothly. I tried it at 600 and ran seti ok but it would hang on any game (Diablo II, Unreal Tournament, and Quake). Darn it!

Btw I have a fan running on it and I can't believe how much a difference it makes. Running at 550 without a fan 59c/138f; and with a fan 43c/109f. The fan is screwed right on the factory heat sink.
And Powerlogix states that the max temperature is 65c. I could run it at 600 but I would need some kind of better cooling. And don't think it is worth it.

Ps. If anybody wants the numbers off of the zif I wrote them down before installing it. It is a powerpc 7400 and version 2.9 unit.

Jeff

proux · Jan 21, 2001, 12:03 PM

Well I still can get data for my last computer running 3.0,
but gave up on the other ones.

Any idea on how the new 533Mhx G4 perform?
That should give us an idea for when the 733Mhz is available.

Thanks

druber · Feb 3, 2001, 10:34 AM

looks like this might finally be official. seti servers will no longer connect to v3.0 clients. this is at the top of the official seti page, and sure enough, seti3.0 wouldn't connect for me this morning. time to watch the average climb again.

Feb 4, 2001, 10:23 AM

Does anyone know if they have the 3.03 version available for Mac OSX beta?

druber · Feb 5, 2001, 10:27 AM

yah i think so. on the seti download page, there are links to a winx version, a mac version, and a linux, osX version i do believe. let's see. i think i'd try the third one. [heheh]

Feb 6, 2001, 10:37 AM

I looked at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu and could only find a "command-line" version for Darwin/Mac OS X Server - is this the same thing?

For now I am running the Application via the Classic environment.

Scotttheking · Feb 6, 2001, 03:41 PM

I would use the command line client unless you run seti for the graphics.
It is faster then the graphical one.

Frogger · Feb 6, 2001, 11:35 PM

There are two MacOS X Beta clients, the graphical and the command line (Darwin). I'm running the Darwin client. Not being a Unix geek, I was confused at first on how to run it... I thought I could just double-click it in the Finder, but not so. You have to open Terminal and run it from there.