Ok so I am trying to set up two preferences for two machines and im getting very hit and miss results

I want this :

PC 1 11x CPU cores

PC 2 2x CPU cores

PC 1 uses work settings and PC 2 school

Just started PC 2 running again and added 2 new projects via Bam, fired it up and it used all 8 cpu cores rather than the 2 I set under boinc preferences

I click proprtys on all the projects and all say school but it still uses 8 cores

I thought PC1 was running right but I looked in settings and noticed the dedfault preferences were set to 11 as well, so as a test I changed this to 2 updated my client and sure enough its no only using 2 cores, PC2 however is still using 8?

So my question is, what am I doing wrong, and whats the best way to get PC 1 to use 11 cores and PC2 to use 2 cores?

When you add projects via BOINC Account Manager (BAM), you'll have to set the computing preferences through there, as any computing preferences set at the project will (eventually) be overwritten by the preferences set through BAM, or otherwise be ignored.

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Cheers, disabled Bam on them as I am only on 3 projects now, making sure all is set in each project and Boinc global, will leave them overnight to see if they work themselfs out, if not may have to reset all and start again.

Looking at the event log I can see :

30/11/2014 22:45:09 | SETI@home | General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults

All the projects show work as host location not home? any ideas why Boinc thinks it should be using home?

Just checked the event logs on the other one, ran a update it said using preferences from School which is 2x cpu yet its still crunching on all 8 cores?

Just changed default preferences and my main rig has updated almost instantly, its as if the locations are set fine for the projects but not for boinc overall? regardless that I have set each project boinc just seems to be stuck on default, how can I have seperate computing settings for each machine?

Aside from setting up the different locations in the (computing) preferences, did you also set the computer's locations to those specific venues?

You set the computer's preference default location to ---, home, school or work in the project preferences, "Default computer location".
You can set per computer (view details of computer, down at the bottom, location" which location that computer should use.
Then you have to make that location's preferences setup in the project's preferences and the computing preferences.

So, for Seti@Home, go to:
- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php (Your account)
- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project (preferences for this project)
- Default computer location
- And options: Add separate preferences for home
Add separate preferences for school
Add separate preferences for work
(These work together with the location you set the computer to in the "computers on this account" list)

- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php (computers on this account)
- (view details of a host)
- Location: ---, home, work, school.

- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=global (global computing preferences, this only has to be set at one of the projects, its settings will propagate to other projects as they are contacted by your BOINC)
- Add default preferences
- And options: Add separate preferences for home
Add separate preferences for school
Add separate preferences for work
(These work together with the location you set the computer to in the "computers on this account" list)

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Sorry, to sumerise my ramblings this is the outcome I want

PC1 to use 11 CPU cores + GPU

PC2 to use 2 CPU cores + GPU