"Geoff" <fooooooool@hotmail.com> wrote:

ok, so i'm playig world of warcraft
and my guild has just started the c'thun fight

(this fight involves 40 poeple, and lasts about 15 mins, and every single 
person has to be on their toes)

every 30 seconds to so, a big ass red laser beam totalys wipes out 
everything in the eniter fight room
so i'm there, ready to move out of the way
oh crap not now
0.1 fps
with this huge ass red laser beam plowing the floor getting near me
alt tab (quuiiiickkkkkkk!!!)
task manager
find wow.exe
change priorty up
back to wow
RUUUUNNNNNNNNN
with singes on my ass lol

http://www.wowwiki.com/images/7/76/C'Thun02.jpg  <-- big ass red lasers, pew 
pew etc......

does boinc really have to randomly do benchmarks, it does sort of take over 
your computer for some vital seconds :)

It's not random, it tries to benchmark exactly five days after the
previous benchmarks. It's an unfortunate thing that users probably
install BOINC during the part of the day they're most actively using
the computer, so those five day intervals result in benchmarks being
rerun during that active time.

If you initiate the benchmarks from BOINC Manager at a time you wouldn't
normally be using the computer, that time will be the new reference for
the five day intervals, and will remain so if the system is always on
at that time.

(it's not normaly a problem, but that one was a bit close for confort hehe)
no, i really don't want to be bothered by boinc, i just want it to sit in 
the background and chew on the spare cpu time thanks 

The impact goes the other way, too. When they are run while the system
is heavily loaded by other things, the benchmarks may be much lower than
normal. That doesn't have much effect on S@H enhanced since it doesn't
use the benchmarks in credit calculations, but many other BOINC projects
still do.