I'll have a bucket of water on standby in case it catches fire.

Over the weekend I built a mega-cheap system for a relative... a Ryzen 3-3100. It's great. Maxed out (8 threads from its 4 cores) it's less than 5% slower per WCG unit than my 3900X, albeit with a third as many threads. It uses almost exactly 1/3 of the power for the CPU too. None of this is surprising if you know how these Ryzen CPUs are packaged. After running overnight, with just the stock CPU fan and no case fans, it was sitting at 62C and nice and quiet. Not bad, considering the whole system, with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB NVMe drive, case, PSU and an nVidia GT610 (second hand off eBay) came to £330. Even the £20 case (yes, honestly) is really well put together.

Team UK is the biggest UK team, Tom1987. Have a look at the stats on my website (link below). Every contribution is welcome, large or small.

I've just hit 40 years on Mapping Cancer Markers. My predictor reckons it'll be less than 250 days until I get my Diamond 50. That's going to be an important milestone for me. It will be my first (and probably only) Diamond 50, and my 1st wife died of cancer at age 50, so it seems appropriate to get that badge.

Mapping Cancer Markers 66,568,176 85,978 40:012:14:38:48

Nice one DMNI!

I've just changed a PC from Ubuntu to Win10 as a bit of an experiment as I've got 2 identical spec machines now and thought it would be fun to compare them but it seems to be limted to 65% CPU even though all options are set to 100%, when I run something like Cinebench it'll run all cores at 100% but BOINC only wants 65% in fact one CPU runs all cores at 100% and the other seems to only run a handful and spread it out across the processor leaving most at 0%. Temps are ok, it's running on all projects, only 25% memory used. I'll keep playing but seems odd. Any ideas appreciated.

Yep brand new install Win 10 Pro. Interestingly today windows task manager is reporting100% rather than 65% but HWMonitor is showing variable usage per core eg. 40-99% across that CPU. So it's better but still super weird.

I don't think it was doing something else like indexing as Cinebench behaved normally, the oddness appears to be more BOINC. I'll watch it today and see how it goes. thanks.

Don't think so, it's allowed up to 75% and only 25% currently used. I switched on to check then switched it all off again. Currently too hot to run PC's flat out, roasting down this way!