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To: Klutz Dohanger

I have two processors--one Mac, one PC. The Mac is shiny and new, with a 1.x ghz processor. I thought it would be out-pacing my really old 533 mhz PC. But, no--they both have 400-frame Tinker units, and the PC processes Tinker in about 75% of the time it take the Mac to do a Tinker. Frustrating.

Interesting: My PC is doing Tinker P1152 for the 5th time. Why?


88 posted on 02/14/2006 4:29:20 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Clara Lou

I read yesterday on the F@H forum that G3's and G4's run Tinkers at the speed of mud. I also have a G4 running a Tinker at 14% complete at 24 hours. Additionally, it's a dual processor so apparently F@H can only work one processor at a time, further cutting down on productivity. I was hoping to boost my output with this computer, but I guess not!

G5's apparently shouldn't have this problem. What's your computer?


90 posted on 02/14/2006 4:54:37 AM PST by ahayes
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To: Clara Lou
Interesting: My PC is doing Tinker P1152 for the 5th time. Why?

I have noticed the same thing on my 3 PCs; they all seem to work on the same group of projects, but not the same groups.

I suspect that when a finished work unit is uploaded to a server, it is very likely that the next work unit will be assigned from the same server.

91 posted on 02/14/2006 5:06:44 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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