This is what the BOINC benchmark looks like in the task manager on my QX9650. It runs a short burst on all 4 cores and then another short burst on core 0. I'd be curious as to what it does on an I7 with HT enabled. I had a feeling this issue of "overclaiming" would come up with I7 since the BOINC benchmark is not set up to deal with virtual cores.
Have you tested the rig with any of the single redundancy projects like FAAH Dave? IIRC points are claimed and awarded via a small benchmark run within each work unit. I would think the claim/award ratio would be much better if the bench is run with all 8 cores crunching.
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