But I guess my point is, if people can get that excited over 5 credits, imagine how they would react if the project lopped a few thousand off the top of the credit claims every few weeks. Also the basis for the calculations may not be pure. The information provided by BOINC is not always correct. One of the top computers here is a Mac G5 Dual core. While his credit claims and RAC seem outrageously high and his benchmarks do as well, they are in fact legitimate for that system. It has been the subject of repeated reports, and BOINC just does not know how to deal with it correctly.

Not only Boinc doesn't know how to deal with it...
I have some Mac's and I don't either. When I use the standard Boinc client the benchmark of my dual G5 2GHz is a little more then half of that of my Sempron 2600MHz (and that seams quiet ridicoulous to me). When I use the altivec optimized client it scores 4-5 times that. Am I cheating? I don't know... there are DC-projects (ie.ORG-25) where my Mac outpreform a P4 3,2GHz 4 times. Does R@h use the capacities of the G5???

But as I stated before somewhere in another tread, I don't care much about credits (I think the competion is fun, but that isn't the reason why I join DC-projects) and I gladly give my gathered credits for better and more fair benchmark system.

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