Hallo Yves,

It is the Boinc points and not the badges which rates the work done. The WCG badges rating has its limitations in measurement the contribution. Isn't this common sense here? See my example as an explanation that the CPU is irrelevant. Thought that is what the tread opener wanted to understand. If badge hunting is what individuals motivate to contribute then all is good even if badges are dilutive in a Hypervisor set up. Does not matter if overprovisioned or not.

As a contributor of currently 450000 boinc points per month (3mio WCG) and 2kw/h per day from my own bill I think I know why I contribute.

Regards
Thomas

1. your OS
2. additional programs you leave running on your computer (just example of mine: STEAM, Gridcoin wallet, etc.)
3. feeding of GPU projects can have significant use of CPU
etc.

But keep in mind that CPU can overheat...especially if they get dusty! So install some program to regulate throttling of WCG science...something like Tthrottle , like I use! Kept me of burning some of the nVidia higher end cards, as GPU projects is also where I contribute.

CPU time is the only thing a computer can track accurately. Elapsed time is more mysterious.

if it's 23% & you have (probably) 4 cores, then 4 x 23 = 92%...so your OS or other programs you're running are using those 8% of your system time...which one?

those things we can't help you out from here...have to find them on your own!

This is actually very good to know.
So the only thing that matters is core count and not how fast each CPU's clock speed is.
I'm sure this is obvious but I'll ask here anyway - 2 8 core androids would theoretically add 16 days of runtime, too?
thanks