In article <472c7025@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@yahooligans.co.nz> wrote:

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I'm seriously considering stopping crunching, my PC is my precioussss, I 
don't mind using it to do some work for SETI but I don't want to torture it. 
What do others think?

Why not just let it crunch at 100%? It's running at a relatively low 
priority as is?

I run the command line version of BOINC. It's running at 100%. I even let 
it run at 100% when I play a low-resources game (like Diablo II). When I 
want to run something beefier (HL2, Crysis, Bioshock, etc), I just 
Ctrl-Break in the window, and manually restart it when I stop playing.

Regards,

Patrick.