Hello all,

I have a question..
I'm thinkin of building a new PC as the title says.
I would like to have an I7 with Hyperthreading.

Is/Are BOINC project(s) benifit from Hyperthreading? How does it work excactly?

and one last question.

Are Nvidea cards better for projects or ATI?
Or doesnt it really matter and is it project depending?

Thanks in advance,

Could someone post a really nice BOINC/Gaming PC config?
My price is around: €1.600

If someone is interested to help me with it.

ThX!

No one can help me out?

You're better off asking on a project's forum. If you run Seti, why not ask the people there in the Number Crunching forum? It's what others do as well.

Of course, if you run any other project, substitute for their NC project. Most of your questions are project specific. Nvidia cards are better at CUDA projects, while ATI cards are better at CAL projects and OpenCL projects. But then people running similar GPUs at those projects can answer you better what is the better GPU for this moment for that project. Next month it'll be different, of course. ;-)

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Thanks for the reaction.

I will look at these forums. But besides of the GPU part. The projects arnt that differnt right? I mean..the more CPU the better. Does BOINC projects benefits from Hyper-threading of an I7?

The only benefit you have from running with hyper threading is that more tasks are done at about the same time, or you can run more projects at the same time. Whether or not that's a benefit for the projects, is up to you to decide. Of course, your electricity company gladly sees you run with HT as well as it uses a lot more energy than were you not using HT.

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