You often read that people do not really need more cores because the existing software hardly makes use of those extra cores. While this is increasingly not true in itself, it is absolutely untrue in BOINC, where every core counts. I will show you some scores for octo-core Bulldozers and Piledrivers, compared against hexa- and quad-core Phenom II's and a quad-core Athlon that most of you will still be using.
As with the quads I will break it up into project categories, starting with the Astrophysical ones (A. Because the 'A' comes first in the alphabet and B. Because WuProp has these values complete, unlike some other categories).
Two first value is the maximum per core per day, the next is the value per CPU per day, multiplying the scores with 8 for octos, 6 for hexas and 4 for quads.
1: Astrophysics
na= Not Available
Project Name Athlon II X4 640 Phenom II X4 965 Phenom II X6 1055 Phenom II X6 1090 Athlon FX-8120 Athlon FX-8150 Athlon FX-8320 Athlon FX-8350 Asteroids Constellation Cosmology Einstein-(SSE/SSE2) Seti
ub=unbelievable (as in too high to be true)
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I'll keep looking, maybe it has electric brakes or hyperthreading I can utilize.
supports as compared to 
Originally Posted by Dirk Broer
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