If you have access to VS.NET 7, compiling specifically for the P4 if you
have one makes a pretty big difference in the BOINC CPU benchmarks.
P4 system is 1.4GHz.

For example, compiling it just for the P4 and above resulted in my
benchmarks going from 852 to 954 Whetstone and from 1688 to 1941 Dhrystone.

That's a pretty good improvement for just recompiling the program.  I also
compiled the SETI@Home program and overwrote the one in the BOINC project
directory but I don't have any work at the moment to test how much of a
difference this will make.

This is still a far cry from my Athlon at 1.4GHz though.  Although the FSB
of 266MHz may help it somewhat.

Devon.