So heard about this years ago and never really had a computer that i could use to help with.

I have downloaded and installed Boinc client, and i am wondering with a gaming setup that i have,

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333
Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor (8 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
GFX Card: AMD GTX 650 Ti, 2Gb Ram


how many projects could i run at one time? Is this something that takes up all available idle CPU time for one project or will it split the idle time used among the multiple projects selected?

how many projects could i run at one time?

As many as you want, really. There's almost 50 official ones to choose from, and still several alpha and beta projects out there not on that list.

Is this something that takes up all available idle CPU time for one project or will it split the idle time used among the multiple projects selected?

In the beginning, with BOINC 7.0, it'll be one project at a time that populates all your CPU cores and GPU if that project has applications for it (not all do). If you allow BOINC to learn all by itself, without interfering, without telling it what to do even once, it may spread two or more projects over the CPU cores over time. But then, it may not.

In the end though, all projects with the same resource share value should end up with an approximate same recent average credit (RAC) when running on the CPU.

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