Congratulations! We have moved into 15th (14th non-anonymous) and now must defeat the Dutch Power Cows to gain another level. It seems some people have been adding hardware and the rankings with in our own group change everyday. I Imagine it won't be long before I'm knocked out of the top 10.
say i was think about geting the client that run's all the time as now i'm just running the screensaver when i'm not at my comp, how does it effect preformance, say when you are playing games, and other cpu intensive progs?
It affects it not at all. The core process runs at idle priority so it gets out of the way of any program you've got going in the foreground. When I run the occasional game or capture and encode video it's as if nothing else is running.
Be careful about those screensavers -- some of them suck processor power. I had one protein running about 1 frame every 47 minutes drop to every 27 minutes when I turned off the screen saver and just had the monitor go blank.
Depending on your O/S, you may be able to set priorities for CPU usage as well (Win2K has this under the Task Manager).
Turning and burning, up to #44. We conquer the Dutch on Monday . I added another Athlon box to my lineup replacing my P2/450. Damn, Athlons chew up the units and now that Fry's had a special for a ECS K7S5A MB and a Athlon 1500 XP for 99 bucks, I think another Athlon will be entering the fray this weekend.
Still gunning for the Top 10
No wonder television's a medium. It's so seldom rare or well done. -Mighty Mouse
Icrontic should be passing MadOnion soon and I think we have a shot against them for #11. Top 10 would require me to win the lottery and fill a rack with 1U Dual Athlons .
No wonder television's a medium. It's so seldom rare or well done. -Mighty Mouse