My Turn, CPU Throttling for High Speed CPU's

> I have mentioned this elsewhere in reply to a number of threads. I have an
> Athlon 64 Winchester core 3000. This chip overclocks like crazy using stock
> cooling and OCZ EL ram on an MSI Neo 2 Platinum motherboard. I have run it
> as high as 2.93 mhz. At this speed, my WU downloads are listed in the 8 hour
> completion range. As I downclock the processor, WU times (est completion time
> in Einstein 4.79 under Boinc 4.19) actually decrease. 6:35 at 2.45 ghz, 5:35
> at 2.21. This is only after retuning the processor. Repeat, there is no web
> access during this process. Given this set of circumstances if I down clock to
> 400mhz or so I should be doing WU's in no time at all! Am I missing some
> hidden "feature" of Einstein/Boinc? Intuition says the faster the processer,
> the shorter the completion times. Why am I seeing exactly the opposite?
> Guess I will be hitting garage sales looking for the trusty Celeron slowbee
> and some pc100 memory. Comments welcome.

I don't know nothin' here, but it would be extremely odd if reducing the clock speed also reduced the time required for one unit to finish.

But I'd like to be sure what stats you are reporting. After a unit is completed, we get "CPU time (sec)" stats & those stats I have seen look very reliable so far.

The latest BOINC I have tried also gives some times while a unit is still being processed. As I recall, it reports the time the unit has run so far, & an estimate of how much ADDITIONAL time will be required to finish the unit. To get an estimate of the total time for the unit, these numbers must be added, as far as I can make out. Are we talking about the same numbers here?

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