SETI@Home complete

tamzzy · Monday at 18:57

ah the good old seti screensaver
definitely turned it off to save resources though lol

Feek · Monday at 19:34

tamzzy said:
definitely turned it off to save resources though lol

I had a stack of old Compaq desktop PCs piled up in the corner of my shack, P233s or something like that, they generated about 2 WUs per day each, all running without the fancy display.

tamzzy · Monday at 19:38

Feek said:
I had a stack of old Compaq desktop PCs piled up in the corner of my shack, P233s or something like that, they generated about 2 WUs per day each, all running without the fancy display.

yeah back in the days of old computers (we're so old now :cry:

) i ran this on my dad's pc with an athlon 600...if i remember correctly, running with the screensaver took 10% longer than without the screensaver

Feek · Monday at 19:41

tamzzy said:
running with the screensaver took 10% longer than without the screensaver

And the rest! The screensaver just hogged all the resources :cry: