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I just noticed today that the BOINC Manager v4.25 is reporting that my slowest Computer (a P4 3.06 HT CPU) will finish the WU's in 17:58 min's ... D'oh ... It actually takes this computer about 1 hr to finish 2 s6 Monkey WU's in HT Mode ...

All the rest of my Computers report that they will finish a WU in the 1 hr 10 min range, which isn't exactly accurate either because they all run 2 WU's in 45 min's to 1 hr 2 min's, so in other words more than twice as fast as the manager reports that they will ...

Apparently the BOINC Manager doesn't have a clue to as how fast your computer will run these WU's ... ???

> I just noticed today that the BOINC Manager v4.25 is reporting that my slowest
> Computer (a P4 3.06 HT CPU) will finish the WU's in 17:58 min's ... D'oh ...
> It actually takes this computer about 1 hr to finish 2 s6 Monkey WU's in HT
> Mode ...
>
> All the rest of my Computers report that they will finish a WU in the 1 hr 10
> min range, which isn't exactly accurate either because they all run 2 WU's in
> 45 min's to 1 hr 2 min's, so in other words more than twice as fast as the
> manager reports that they will ...
>
> Apparently the BOINC Manager doesn't have a clue to as how fast your computer
> will run these WU's ... ???
>

Did you try running CPU Benchmarks under File -> Run benchmarks? That should get a fairly accurate measure of your computers speed & power and tell the client an approximate time to completion based on how fast you process the benchmark test data.

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