My PC's. How are they for Seti??

[Kunaak]

well for the moment, my main PC is a 2.6C at 3.5 ghz.
hyper threaded and all.
running 216 on the ram with the 5:4 divider.

I have a few spare parts around here, and thought, maybe I can build another one.

so heres what I was thinking.

second PC.

PcChips 266A motherboard.
Thornton 2 ghz.
128 megs of ram.
40 gig HD.
sabre 200 videocard.
windows XP.

I have the motherboard, hard drive and ram laying around.
the motherboard is a pull from a PC I built for someone, who wanted a upgrade to a NF2.
they had a thornton in there before so I assume another would be just fine.
the videocard is a cheap one from the refurbs coming from newegg.

how does that sound for a second PC and BOINC Seti??

I am just wondering if the Xp is even worth bothering with.
thats why I am asking here.
I have little to no experience running seti on the Xp's as it's been so long since I used a Xp CPU. I am just wondering how they hold up at producing WU's compared to my P4.

lastly...
I have a spare 3.0C here.
I was thinking of picking up a P4P800 cause they are so cheap ($50 used) and some cheap 3200 ram, and pop my 3 gig hard drive on it, and le that thing slave away too.
that one I know I could OC alittle and get some extra speed out of.

but thats just a far off idea.
I don't have the money laying around for all this stuff.

the Thornton PC won't be OC'd.
thats kinda why I wonder if it's worth keeping.
if it's not.

I'd just sell it locally, and get something better later.

 

[sandman001]

P4's work alot better than XP's, and especially better than the thornton because of it's limited cache. Could you enable the cache?

I mean, the AMD would still do alright, but the P4's would definatly beat it by a decent margin, especially since it wouldn't be overclocked.

 

[Kunaak]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-421&depa=1

thats the CPU there that I orderd.
I figured it would be a good PC to sell locally, if it doesn't stack up.

it's been a long time since I ran a Xp- so what makes this CPU different then any other non barton CPU??

256 cache, 266 FSB...

 

[Dk Jedi Allianc]

I believe its a Barton CORE with half the cache.....



EDIT: ohh an in case you wonder: My Barton @2,21 does an avg Boinc WU in 2h 45m (approx)