I'm not new, but I might as well be
I used to be pretty active with BOINC, and Seti USA, back in 2013/14. I had a car accident, and dropped off the face of the planet for the past 5 years. I'm finally getting on with life, and part of that is back to BOINC.
I just bought a brand new Digital Storm Aventum X, and I've started crunching with it. I'll get my other PCs crunching this week. My new system has a i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, nvidia RTX 2080S, nvidia 1060 (used as a dedicated PhysX card when I game).
I wanted to get it with the i9-9980XE so I could do 36 threads, but it would have put me way out of my budget. That would have been a nice CPU to crunch with on BOINC
It'll take me a bit to re-familiarize myself with the forums and BOINC