Have you freed a CPU core ?
Its very important especially with a AMD CPU.

I am not talking about the physics of entropy. What I am talking about is how people supposedly heat their homes with a few pc. My cruncher consumes about 700 watts or so yet the heat out does not equal the heat from a 700 watt space heater it is considerable less. I can put my hand behind the computer case it will not burn my hand and it does not feel like a 700 watt space heat as a space heater will burn my hand when placed close up to it. Space heaters have caused fires and it takes the fire department to put out such fire. I have never heard of the fire department putting out a pc fire. Have any one ever worked in a physics lab and done entropy experiments? Like in a voltage regulator 12 volts in and 5 volts out and the excess electricity is converted into heat it is wasted electricity. I know I can not heat my living room much less the desk area by my pc it simply will not happen I need a space heater to heat my living room not my pc heating my living room. My pc might warm my hand but it certainly will not heat my working area of my pc.

If all a pc did is convert it's emery into heat it would be very inefficient but pc are very efficient there fore less heat is produced much like a florescent light bulb that's all it is too it. You can not heat a room or make toast or light my cigar with a pc it is just too efficient. Now when I was in the USAF they had those old computers that used reel to reel computers the size of refrigerators and they had them by the dozen crammed into a room that had to be air conditioned because of the heat they produced but my pc in my living room produces very little heat my appliances such as my plasma TV and my clothes dryer and my refrigerator produce way more heat than my pc and yet they do not heat my hall or kitchen. The drier would heat some if I do not vent it outside.

One summer my ac went out and it got 106 in my living room where my cruncher is and it kept on crunching no problem. The way I understand it if my computer uses 300 watts to crunch it is not the same as 300 watts of heat because all the electricity is being used not to produce heat but to crunch with some heat as a by product. Similar to a 100 watt incandescent light bulb produces more heat than 100 watt florescent bulb which produces no heat. They both use 100 watts electricity one produces heat and the other does not. Computes are much the same they do all kinds of stuff but their design is not to produce heat. A 1500 watt computer does not produce as much heat as a 1500 watt space heater.

Here the file content "app_config.xml" in directory "\\BOINC\DATA\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu"

6 wu executed by cpu
6 wu executed by gpu

<app_config>
<app>
<name>setiathome_v7</name>
<max_concurrent>12</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.166</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.166</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Only the stock GPU apps have been provided by third parties. The Lunatics Astropulse CPU application is still significantly faster than the stock AP CPU application. The Lunatics optimized app requires SSE and makes good use of it, the stock app can run on any x86 CPU.

                                                                   Joe

So then there is a real reason to run the new Lunatics apps, contrary to what I was told above...IF I am willing to run AP on the CPU, that is.