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#1 2003-01-08 6:48 pm
- JBear100M
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- From: Boulder, CO
- Registered: 2001-02-17
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A Thousand!
Ok, so it's not amazing compared to some, but a few days ago I turned in my 1000th WU. It only took a little over 3 years on a G3 400. Considering that I didn't leave my computer on much over the summer (when I wasn't at school), and I only had one computer to run SETI, I think that's pretty good. Yay for me! 
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#2 2003-01-20 12:41 am
- JediKnightChewie
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- From: far from home
- Registered: 2002-06-18
- Posts: 4652
Re: A Thousand!
w00t! good job, ill be getting 400 tonight 
and ive been doing it since summer with 2 computers (933 g4(occasionally)/500 imac(fairly often) off and on
1k is something to be proud of i doubt ill reach it if seti goes down soon
the c00ki33 0wns J00!
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#3 2003-01-20 2:40 pm
- Monsta Mac
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- From: Davenport, Iowa
- Registered: 2003-01-14
- Posts: 9
Re: A Thousand!
wow!!!
congrats!
I've been doing this for almost 3 years and I recently crested 500 with my 450 B&W G3 
...
... I'm begining to think that I need to get a new mac. :idea: 
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#4 2003-01-22 3:00 pm
Re: A Thousand!
Hehe ... If you want to run SETI build yourself a little Athlon box! (Before you start worrying, yes, my primary computer is still a Mac. This machine is just for SETI and games. 
) The one I just finished has cranked out over 100 work units in two weeks, and finishes each one in about three hours. A pretty close to ideal SETI box, it seems. 
(This is me ...)
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#5 2003-01-22 8:59 pm
- dvpierce
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Re: A Thousand!
Same here, although I crunch for Team Macaddict (not some washed up top-down space sim engine) (Actually, EV Is stil oneofmy faves) my primary cruncher is a 2.2 GHz Athlon, which also plays a lot of games.
I'm eventually going to crank it up with DDR333 and a 333 MHZ FSB, but I'll have to downclock to 2.13 GHz to get it to work. Still, I can crunch a WUin under 3hours flat with the CLI.
I also have SETI running on a couple of machines at school. There's a G4/500 and a G3/400, which combines turn in an average of 3.6 a day, (when I remember to leave them both on.) and my brother, with a Duron 700, has the GUI Client running in the background. I don't think he turns in many units for me though, and they seem to take about 16 hours each.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi … _stats_new
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