How can I make my PC crunch more?

platypus

platypus

platypus

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The crunching I do at home is Rosetta.

I've got a pretty decent spec PC kicking around now - core2duo 2.4GhZ, 8GB good ram (can't remember spec off the top of my head but its high quality OCZ stuff) are the pertinent specs I think?

I bought a laptop replacement and so am happy to put this under the stairs just crunching away, however I'm sure I should be able to squeeze more out of it, any tips? Should I chuck linux on it?
 
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As I can't find you in the OcUK R@H team, I can't particularly comment on your performance however, out of my own studies, R@H is heavily linked to the amount of cache a chip has.

My Q9450 gets about 1.5x the credit per unit than my AMD and has twice the cache at the same clock speed. My server, a dual core 4800 with only 1MB total cache, does no better with 2 cores enabled than 1.

Personally, fire and forget. I haven't found or seen any ways to improve performance bar buying a new chip.
 
I'm 20th at the moment, and I thought that might be the case. No real performance improvement in linux? Or using a non-graphical version or something (as I recall, SETI was much faster running in linux in a bash terminal then anything else)?
 
well depending on your motherboard/memory and cpu cooler, i'd have thought you could get a bit more performance by overclocking it. that cpu would probably be good to 3 gig or so.
 
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