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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Double your task throughput on Linux (Message 4699) Posted 30 Apr 2021 by Ianab Post: I stumbled on this tread when trying to work why my Xeon E5 (non HT) machine was taking longer to do work units than my slower Xeon E3 (with HT) but running Linux. I had suspected that Linux vs Windows was the issue, just looking at results from different wingmen. . Linux almost always won, even against faster Windows machines. So just wanted to say thanks for the confirmation / explanation, and the suggestion of using a VM if I get keen enough. For the Windows guys that want to experiment with Linux, my suggestion is to dig out an old PC and set it up with Linux Mint. First Gen i3 etc can't be given away locally, it costs actual money to take them to the recycle centre. But throw a cheap SSD and another stick of RAM in there, load up Linux Mint, and you have a perfectly usable machine for Internet use. The machines that are too old or not worth repair I use as "organ donors". Then I can strip them out and sell for scrap, better to get $2 at the scrap yard than pay $20 at the transfer station. Anyway, you can get a machine that will run Linux just fine for practically nothing. This is little "project". Started out as a free i3 based slimline business PC that I got for free. Used lower spec Xeons are cheap on AliExpress, so it's worth looking up the system board and seeing what it will support. https://universeathome.pl/universe/show_host_detail.php?hostid=593120 If I switched it to Linux it would get a big boost on this project.