I installed Seti & Parabon on my NT box at work (a 650 MHz PIII) the ran them simultaneously and monitored via Task Manager. Parabon pretty much takes over the processor when running, letting seti have about 50% processor 5% of the time, the rest of the time (95%), parabon takes up about 98% processor. Both tasks have same priority (low), but parabon wins out. I wonder in NT gives priority alphabetically... that would be quite funny, and yet another fine example of why to stay clear of ol' micro$oft...
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I installed Seti & Parabon on my NT box at work (a 650 MHz PIII) the ran them simultaneously and monitored via Task Manager. Parabon pretty much takes over the processor when running, letting seti have about 50% processor 5% of the time, the rest of the time (95%), parabon takes up about 98% processor. Both tasks have same priority (low), but parabon wins out. I wonder in NT gives priority alphabetically ... that would be quite funny, and yet another fine example of why to stay clear of ol' micro$oft...