Texas Booster, Thanks for the reply. Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back. I wanted to see how the new machine would do after the first week. So far it’s done very well. I’m still having some issues with the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, but it seems to be related to the Netgear wireless antenna - not a happy camer with Vista. Hope you get the 50% CPU useage problem resolved; it looks like you got some great advise - that’s exactly what I did, and it’s working well. Again, thanks......Colin
Compared to the systems that I used to run F@H on, the new CPUs simply blow them away. I can remember two and three weeks for a single work unit to complete, running 24 x 7. With some of my part time systems I would worry if they would complete within the old 100 day time limit.
Now I regularly see work units being completed in two or three days. I have a dual core system that will finish a 300 point work unit in about two days, and I run a work unit on each core. That's good points.
With the GPU card I can finish the special work units in less than a day, and usually complete two each day. I am looking at a new NVidia card or a new ATI 4850 after the August price drops. Either one should almost double my output, all by themselves.
F@H has come a very, very long way since I started running Genome@Home in the mid-90s on a 386.