Hey guys,
I noted that Boinc utilizes the CPU pretty well.
Once the CPU hits 74C, it goes from 2,1Ghz to 1,6Ghz.
I found the cooling solution of the CPU wanting, and added some thermal padding on it, allowing the casing to dissipate some more heat.
I think this CPU should do 80-85C easily.
How can I extend the temperatures so it won't throttle so quickly? (btw, the bottom of the laptop only gets about 40-45C, so adding 10C wouldn't be hot enough to burn myself on it (unless I would keep my hand there for a long time).

Nevermind!
I found out, that using 2 tasks on 4 threads, loads the CPU to about 98%, and the occasional dips are enough to keep the CPU under 72C, and keep it crunching at 2+ Ghz.

Another question,
The N5000 has 4 actual cores, running at a max boost speed of 2,7Ghz.

It's not a dual core with HT, but an actual quadcore.

When I set boinc to 50% of CPU, it runs 2 tasks, and actually uses 98% of the CPU, running at ~2Ghz.
When I set Boinc to 45% of CPU, it runs 1 task, and uses 66% of the CPU resources at ~2,66Ghz on all 4 cores.

How come the numbers are so off?

What project(s) are you running, some project applications are "multi-cored", meaning they will use either as many threads (cores) as are available, or the number determined by the project.

My first project is rosetta.
Strangely enough this behavior is only on the N5000.
On my Xeon, rosetta runs the cpu % pretty spot on
eg: 10 core, 20thread means 19 tasks at a time means 98% CPU usage, and only when I set CPU usage to 100%, does Windows' taskmanager actually use all cores to 100%. Although setting it to a lower than 100% number, does distribute all tasks evenly across all cores.