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.
Maybe it’s just the units I’m being assigned, but each core in my new dual core system is finishing about 3-4 units/day. The new machine has processed 56 work units in 8 days. I finally made it in the top 20 producers for FR!!
Just for fun I reread the first F@H post on FR the other day. It’s been just a couple of years, but WOW have things changed.