What is the difference between questions regarding performance and the possible errors or malfunctions which may also be present at the same time?

I just got a little pop-up box here while running a Genefer World Record task by means of CUDA giving me a Vcore warning, something I have not seen before.

I pulled up the monitor box for the CPU and sensors, respectively. Two tabs besides each other when selected.

For Vcore, it stays at about 1.240 to 1.260 V most at the time, but while the color labeling is still blue, it apparently goes below 1 V right now. Also the sensor for CPU fan lights up in yellow, but no warning is given. Apparently with my window open, the RPM on the CPU fan decreases to less than 580 RPM (rounds per minute).

Possibly the CPU was choked for a slight moment. I'll keep a watch on it.

whoa. i tried to look up your gpu, but i couldn't find a temperature threshold anyone agreed upon. 75C is far far too hot. i'm running an old gtx 260 core 216 and i can barely after a full night get it to 119F, how in gods name is that thing still functioning? thats an insane amount of heat to put near any components imho.

Nah, the silicon on consumer Geforce GPUs is normally good up to 90' (~190f). Your GTX260 has a maximum operating temperature of 105'c, for example.
The NVS line are business class hardware, which tends to be built with reliability in mind. Should be safe up to the same, if not higher, temps.

His CPU is rated for up to 100'c as well.

A common trick with HTPC and 'silent' builds is to use custom fan profiles that turn down the fans and 'run hot' (it's less work to maintain a card at 80'c than at 60'c, hence less noise). As long as the heat doesn't 'bleed out' into other components or soften the chassis (possible with laptops) it's fine.

Speedfan or Speccy should be able to tell you what temps your hard drives are running at. They're the most vulnerable components to heat - need to keep those below 55'c


Note for anyone reading; always check the maximum temps for your CPU and GPU for yourself; AMD cpu's in particular tend to have lower maximum temperatures.

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I use TThrottle to keep the CPU and GPU temperatures under 75 °C.

Marriage isn't necessary to have a two-parent family unit.

No it isn't but it is much preferable.

Says who?

Or, ask yourself this which is better two people who want to raise a child together or two people who hate each others guts but are too stupid to get a divorce?

It's being reported that generally the rebels in Libya are mainly unco-ordinated, poorly trained, and have no modern weopons. Some observers are asking would it be right for the West to supply arms to the rebels? Some say it could shorten the war, save lives, and mean less foreign involvement. Others say it will just escalate things and make metters worse.

Obama's war. This will pave the way for Palin. Scary times.

Perhaps the biggest myth is federal income tax. Most federal revenues are from imposts, duties and excise taxes. Of course one can count Social Security taxes as 7.5%+7.5% being the largest single source of all.

Most of the deficit problem can be solved by gradually increasing the retirement age as the system was not designed for the present average lifespan. Retirement at 70 being the ultimate goal at current lifespan solves the entire problem. And people today are healthier at 70 than their grandparents were at 65 so people ar still ahead of the game. But if people insist upon 65, not a problem but SocSec taxes have to increase dramatically.

BTW: a cheaper way to reduce SocSec costs is to encourage smoking. Death costs related to tobacco usage are lower than all death costs other than obesity which is highest. A rational government would encourage both smoking and obesity. Encouraging longevity and complaining about the cost of success in that endeavour is not rational. It is spending money to increase costs. Only liberals ...

Seriously folks, the Cold War is OVER. It is time to stand down. We should have started that 15 years ago after it was clear the USSR could not resurrect itself. Problem is about 1/3 of military costs are retirement after 20 years of service. That is about 35 years of payout. It won't go away any time soon even if we disband the military tomorrow.

Over half the medical care in the US is socialized i.e. run by the government. Admin costs are under 5%. The non-government run medical care costs 35% to administer counting doctors, hospitals and insurance companies. A scheme is needed to recover that 35% to pay for completely government run medicine. The recent health care (hated) legislation has no way to recover the 30% difference in administration costs which is why it has to cost more.

There are a large number of smaller entitlement programs which add up to real money. Problem is government programs predetermine the solution which is always less than optimum and usually shit. The simplest way to end it all is a negative income tax to replace all of entitlement programs. Once in place the gov washes its hands of all social problems -- said on the assumption the negative income tax is sufficient to provide a decent life. Why do it this way? ALL the admin costs go away. Even at 5% that is real money and the total outlay remains the same.

All of the above are non-partisan. All of the above are contrary to established lobbying groups which are against changes as they profit from things as they are. I spent 18 years in DOD and am pissed DOD is still going strong as it means I was working for nothing as we won the cold war but nothing changed. I was working to win and dissolve the waste of money in our war footing and start doing productive work not better ways of killing people.

I am libertarian. I recognize it is an ideal unlikely to be achievable in light of the average IQ of voters. So I am willing to accept a negative income tax, meaning accepting positive income tax, in order to eliminate the grand social schemes that never really work as advertised.

Here is a good example to show how the benchmark doesn't really matter a great deal. Compared to Bent's E8400 mine spit out about twice on the integer, but I'm sure they would both crunch the same work at the same rate.
Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
Benchmark results:
Number of CPUs: 2
3062 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
8872 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

There is no issue, lets not make one please. ;) I understand what he meant, it was aimed at me if you want to call it that. No need to expound on what has already been discussed. I took it the same way you did but expected he meant his best intentions. Which according to him he did, so there is no issue.

Back to the issue, remember your whetstone won't match your cpu speed. The whetstone is the measure of your floating point performance. The Dhrystone shows your integer performance alone, both measure in MIPS(Million Instructions Per Second).

For instance my q9650 is a quad core running at 3GHz.
Floating Point = 4168.57 MIPS
Integer Speed = 8488.96 MIPS

e8400 running at 3Ghz
Floating Point = 3048.57 MIPS
Integer Speed = 4434.72 MIPS

I'm not entirely sure what effects that number besides making the processor faster. However the only difference, besides the obvious 2 extra cores, between these two processors is the cache size, and the speed of the ram in the system 1066 vs 800, which I'm sure may have a little to do with it.

This is a link to the Boinc Wiki that explains and has some addition linked material that explains what each part measures and why. And how it matters to your 'score' etc.

Would be interesting to see how different changes in a system effect it. I know when I OC my system to 4GHz the floating point goes up a good bit but the integer speed stays about the same on the quad. Never tested it on the dual core to know.

i think your eyes should re read what i said. and, since youw brought it up, i said that he'd make a good one... i never said he was one... love how you twisted my words... too bad its posted above us for posterity, and inflammatory comments like yours are against the rules, too.

i was commenting on his thoroughness. often, the best trolls are the ones who are thorough, thats all.
dont read too far into comments i post, they are made lightly.

It's not the way people read it though. I decided to semi-ignore it though, glad I wasn't the only one with either train of thought.

i totally understand.
but no worries. the statement was meant, in a weird way, to be a compliment to your thoroughness, nothing more.

hope i cleared that up.