ever tried to crunch in W98 safe mode ?

[Maggi]

Go figure ...

btw, I'm now at ~6 hours/WU @ 875MHz

L8rz,
Maggi

[CHHAS]

How long did it take in 'normal' mode ?

[Maggi]

~ 7 hours ...

[CHHAS]

Great

I'll be trying that as soon as I get home from work.

*CHHAS cackling madly at the thought of faster crunching*

[office boy]

It would be faster, as no drivers or services are loaded.

[CHHAS]

Well, I tried it out, it seems a bit faster, although not as fast as I had hoped

However running in Safe Mode solves another problem I was facing.
I've just ordered my ADSL connection, and wasn't looking forward to being online 24/7 with the PC left unattended, running in Safe Mode prevents this, as the network drivers aren't loaded

[Assimilator1]

I had heard that safe mode is faster but this is the 1st time I've seen figures on it ,thanks Maggi

BTW I don't think I'll try it ,I don't fancy MBM not loading up

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[Maggi]

ok ... make that ~7 hours a ~6.5 hours ...

I had my CPU @ 850 and not @ 875, plus it must have been some long-to-crucnh WUs.

But still there's an improvement of half an hour ...

Too bad that the spies from TA already seen this thread, I didn't think about it before posting.

Anyway, Assim ... even if MBM won't boot up automatically, you could still try to launch it manually ...

[office boy]

MBM sucks system resources.
for optimal seti cracking you should disable your anti-virus software, and any hardware monitors.

[office boy]

MBM sucks system resources.
for optimal seti cracking you should disable your anti-virus software, and any hardware monitors.

[Maggi]

Darn you, office boy ...

I hoped I could waste some of Assim's MIPS ...

[Kruse]

Sounds neat... think I'll try it too...

I'm already at ~6 hours/WU at only 558 MHz though... Maybe I can get it down to 5.5 ?

[Assimilator1]

Office Boy

MBM takes between 0.25-0.30% of CPU time every 3 seconds ,its such a tiny loss that it'll make no real difference to WU times.
It also gives me piece of mind that if the cpu fans fails or the cpu gets too hot it will shut down my PC automatically.

Maggi

:P ,no such luck

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[mynx]

I have tested work unit times with MBM on and off and there was no noticable difference. It has already save me once when the processor cooling fan died. MBM and cpuidle kept the temperature down until i got home and noticed the problem.

[AMC]

What the heck is MBM ?