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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
Whilst that is theoretically true, I think in practice there is a marginal performance loss, more noticeable on lower spec machines that are pushed to capacity. There has to be a momentary period while the PC becomes aware of the fact you are doing something so boinc must release power, Equally, especially if you have limited memory, the PC may need to swap out boinc used memory to the HD to free enough space for what you really want to do. Most people won't notice the difference. I dont on my well specced desktops, but my laptop - that's another matter  |
Yep I've got extra memory to install here..just waiting for someone to do it for me....Then I should have 1 GB of Ram...Hopefully I can render three high res figures in metallic suits with a complex background.
Then maybe I can consider Seti again.