is running seti 24/7 bad...

[zangler]

i posted this on the amd cpu section of the board, but i thought i would give it to you guys also...


i have had a 1.4 for about 1 month, and i am oc at 1.55. i run seti all the time, and now my sandra scores are what most normal 1.4s are at. it should be about 300pts higher. why? if i stop running seti 24/7? i dont know what to do. is it possible to slightly damage a chip? i tried running everything at default, and it is just worse. the fastest i can get my chip, is what i have it at now. i am hopping there is a simple thing i have overlooked, but i hope you guys can help. thanks.


yes, i do shut down seti when i benchmark, and my friend and i built identical systems, and he gets about 300pts more than i do. i run seti, and he does not....any help would be appreciated.

[Basher]

are you sure nothing else is running in the background? try restarting before benching? it should have no adverse affects unless your cpu is to hot.

[TC]

I have never seen that kind of damage - either overclocking kills a chip completely, or it keeps on working. I would suspect something else, but there are too many options to narrow it down without more info.

[zangler]

tell me the info you need. i have done it when i restart, and nothing is running. my friends computer from mobo, stepping, psu, case...everything is identical to mine, and he gets more points. i run seti and he dosen't....that is it.

i agree....either you kill a processor or not....i dont know how this happend.

remember when i said seti was slowing....it is because of this i think. this is really annoying....it should be faster.

[Neptune]

Have you tweaked your memory settings for the 8KHA and that DDR mem you're running?

[Basher]

did you try reinstalling the os? maybe it is corrupt

[zangler]

i have re-installed several times, and yes, everything is tweaked

[SDRR]

How are you ensuring that nothing is running?
The CTRL+ALT+DEL close program menu doesn't always
show everything that is running in the background.

I'm not sure about XP, but in Win98 I find it most effective using Start>Run>msconfig and going to the startup tab and unchecking everything that isn't essential to startup. Then, after reboot, using the CTRL+ALT+DEL close program menu to close everything except explorer and systray (you can close this to, it's just the speaker icon/sound interface in the system tray). If you have MS Office installed, Findfast is a real benchmark killer and unchecking it doesn't work, you have to go to its' applet in the control panel and tell it not to start on boot.

Hope this helps you out,Zangler.

[bodezafa]

did you and your fried benchmark the same when the rigs were first built??

[zangler]

this sucks....i have NOTHING running and still getting bad scores....please someone have an answer...

[Mictlan]

Might be stupid but, have you defrag your hdd? As the data is putted into the smaller sector of the hdd, the whole rig can suffer a little slow down.

Also, remeber that the benchmarks are sometimes hard to repeat, when you are doing you final benchmark, you should repeat it at least three times and make an average. That average will be more repeatable than the peaks.

[Frodo Baggins]

I agree, do some scans of your cpu. Defrag it (might be th prob if you haven't since you started crunching :D), do some scan disks. Get programs that will clean your registry and clear your hd of junk. And last but not least, perhaps you should turn your cpu of for a night. Jst to make sure.

[JigPu]

Yeah, Windows begins to slow down as more stuff gets on your HD. A good format/re-install should bring those scores up greatly. Though that's a little drastic just to get a better benchmark score... Just delete what you don't need off your HD, get a registry cleaner, and otherwise clean up your HD. Then defrag it, and your scores should be a little higher.

JigPu

[Frodo Baggins]

I just fouind 200 mb of junk (tmp files) and 100 mb of internet files when I did a cleanup 10 minutes ago

[zangler]

the only thing is i just re-installed about 3 weeks ago...i have 80gigs and i am defragged. should i stop running seti for a while? but how could that be it? this is the most frustrating thing.

[SDRR]

I used to post frequently to an Abit NG and there's always a couple of problem solvers that help alot of people. The guy that has this site

http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/easy.htm

was one of them, a pretty sharp guy that gave good advice to quite a few people. His advice on swapfile and Vcache settings helped more than a few people. Couldn't hurt to try it out, even though you're running XP, you can always change it back if it doesn't help.

[zangler]

thanks, but that wont work, since winxp is based on the win nt kernal.