So I started off with an i5-2500k with 2 ATI HD7970's as my only computer. I was netting around 15k-30k credit a day.

I since have added an older AMD Phenom 2 w/ ATI HD5770 and a new build I did with an i7-5930k and one of the HD7970's from my first PC which means now the i5-2500k has only 1 HD7970 as well.

Just wondering why my credit seems to be much less now with 3 PC's instead of 1. I know (think I know) that most of the data crunching is done within the GPU and thought that because I split them up it was causing this, but I'd like to think adding 6(12)+4=16 more cores and a HD5770 would net me much more credit. Am I doing something wrong or have something configured incorrectly thats causing my issue? Any help would be appreciated, Thank you

When was that "I was netting around 15k-30k credit a day."?

Probably what you see is because of too few AstroPulse tasks lately.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html

AstroPulse tasks are especially effective on ATI AMD so when you GPUs do AstroPulse they will create much more credit per hour.

You can see how much "Avg. credit" have any of your computers here:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php?userid=10079899

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Well if you look at my credit earned before I added my two other computers it was over a million.
Around 1.4 million I think. I had my account for approx 107 days before I added new PCs and I can say from first hand knowledge that even tho
I had my preferences set to run all cores at 100% all the time, my pc did get shut off from time to time. Anyway it would probably make it around 95 days of run time. Which puts the average credit over 14k.

So there are days of much higher then 14k and days of 0-14k. Right now between 3 computers I'm breaking roughly 17k a day, which seems low compared to 1 computer.

Did that clear things up?

I'm not really interested to dig into this 'credit problem' - you better know what/when/how you run your computers

These are your graphs - they are climbing now but there seems to be some almost idle period:
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/user/detail/10079899/charts

Compare with some of the top users - they also have fluctuations (depending e.g. on availability of tasks)
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/user/detail/3338287/charts
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/user/detail/259/charts

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If your not interested in digging into my credit problem, which is what this post is about, why are you here?

I appreciate the time you've taken to throw up links to my graphs but I already know where to find them. Also if you could take 10 seconds to analyze them you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. There was one day that I racked up 50k+ of credits but that is the only one.

What exactly do you mean by what/when/how I run my computers? 100% of the processors at 100% of there usage.

There was a period of drought in the tasks avalible and it reflects it in my graphs with the dead spot after the period of activity after a dead spot which was when I tore my computer down and came back online with 3.

Two seconds....
Your period of very low credit increase is a period when SETI wasn't sending out much work and we all suffered the same problem - my RAC fell from about 90,000 to about 50,000 over the same period, and is now recovering.

It takes a couple of weeks RAC to recover from a big outage, and adding extra computers will take about the same time. If you look at the slope of your total credit graph you will see it is now steeper than it was before the recent server crash, so things are heading in the right direction.

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There was one day that I racked up 50k+ of credits

If you mean 'Best 10 days' they have to be called 'Worst 10 days' = Big credit after server problems.
E.g. AstroPulse had no validations for ~month and I have big peak on the graph (but this of course is not work done in one day as the graph imply)
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/user/detail/8647488/charts

Your max is 36,593
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/user/detail/10079899/bestxdays

... after a dead spot which was when I tore my computer down and came back online with 3.

This is the first time you say this.
Till now you expected us (other users) to go and look at every computer 'Created' date.
And even that is not enough - you may make changes to computer after 'Created' date.
This I mean by what/when/how you run your computers


I still stand on my assumption: no AstroPulse = 5-6x less credit

Go post in Number Crunching and have another opinion

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Yea I know the server went bunk for a bunch of days but it was during this downtime that I got my 3 computers on SETI. They just sat waiting for work, so I'm not taking this period into account.

Well that multiple day into one could explain that huge day I had, but for right now with all my PC's running SETI almost constantly and with lots of task available, I thought I'd be getting much better results.

Do some tasks give more credit then others?

It's just at this point I don't see the benefit in running my gaming rig at Max 24/7 for what seems like the same credit overall.

Do some tasks give more credit then others?

Normally:
Seti Multibeam pays about 30 to 120 credit, depending on angle range.
Seti Astropulse pays 510 to 630 credit, depending on amount of radar blanking.

So as you can see, when running lots of Astropulse, your RAC will go bigger faster than running only Multibeam. Astropulse is not available at the time of writing, though. There are only a handful of resends going around.

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Ok, thanks for the information all.