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Problem solved; I emptied out all the messages that had build up in the junk e-mail folder and viola suddenly mail, calendar and people stopped downloading messages. Let me explain. I have an e-mail service provided by my website provider that I use for my primary e-mail, and primarily use...

Yes I read what you said; it uses loopback. I don't even know what means so I don't have a lot of options to be able to verify if what you said is true (in my case, specifically). I logged into my Time Warner Cable account to view my internet network usage details for previous months. I...

Not sure; the network was pegged on the downstream (receive) which tells me my hard drives weren't being downloaded to Iran, at least. Also, if it were genuine malware, I would expect the problem to persist after removing the mail app. My main concern is identifying a fix so the next person...

Oh yes, that was the literal definition flying off the handle. Thank you for contributing to this thread. I apologize-- as you noted, having only 50,000 times more network traffic than yourself is not even reason for concern, let alone "freaking out." On the a side note I hope nobody craps...

Okay, so you think when e-mail is downloading 13 GB per day (that's more than 500 MB per hour) and ruining network performance for everybody in the house, removing it is "clearly an over-reaction?" Do you have another suggestion I could try if it happens again?

400 gigabytes, not megabytes. 3 orders of magnitude difference there. I noticed this problem when my network was pegged at 3.0 mbps for several hours straight. The problem went away as soon as I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. It's a bug.

Has anyone ever seen this? Didn't find much info on the googles, so I wonder if this is a new issue? This explains why my network has been so crappy lately. Another reason to hate Windows 8. Thanks Microsoft! (The only fix I know of is remove the Mail, Calendar and People app. Which is...

Dear Intel, What the hell is wrong with you? It FEELS like I'm been rocking a 6-core Westmere for decades now and I'm ready for an upgrade. You can't possibly convince me that I should drop $1500 for a new 4960X and motherboard when the improvements since Nelehem are incremental. I have...

^^^^ This The P6 was so good that it was even better than its successor. May Willamette never be spoken of again.

"Small jump" because they're using off the shelf PC hardware.

Okay would someone remind me why you'd want to work for these guys? Who in their right mind would relocate their family to Austin to work at a video game sweat shop like EA? Oh sure the pay is above the average Best Buy salesperson but if you're unemployed 6 months out of the year, then what?

Just to clear the record Intel was the one who started this "rumor" back in the days when i7 was lauched. I'm too lazy to cite my references but I do recall during reading reviews where Intel was very concerned about overvolting the memory controller. Thats why we take it so seriously.

I'd like to chime in. I used to be able to OC mine to 4.0GHz with turbo disabled and high voltage. I never liked how hot it was running so I stepped it down to stock speeds and undervolted it quite a bit so the PC would was near-silent. Anyway its been 3 years and in the past coule of days I...

Because the salesman had represented so, you were still entitled to that $30 off Windows 7. Even if he had to explain it to his boss and eat the cost.

Totally agree; I used to write optimized assembly language on AMD chips years ago around the time of Athlon XP/Athlon 64. The architecture was great; 3 instructions per clock on the front end, 6 execution units on the back end (including 3 symmetrical integer/ALU units). It looks like AMD...

I'm curious-- I think if you ran CoreDamage you'd melt that chip. Not that you should do it but since its not my processor what do I have to lose?? :)

Yes, so the real question is, how many modules can they stuff into a single package? Could AMD put 16 cores into a single package? I would think so, and the performance would be very compelling, especially for the cost, at least in the IT space.

IPC per core is lower than AMD K10, just like hyper-threading is lower IPC per thread. Now the IPC per module is quite good, and if you were to complete re-write software from the ground up optimized for parellel threads instead of IPC parallelism, it wouldn't be such a disaster. Bulldozer...

They should have called modules cores and cores modules. A quad-core, 8 module (or thread, if you will) Bulldozer would have compared more favorably.

The IPC deficiency can be more extreme than you think; AMD K10 can execute 3x identical ALU (that means integer) instructions per clock; although Bulldozer can execute up to 4x, it must be a mixture of loads, stores and arithmetic. Where you had 3 IPC on the K10 you may wind up with only 2x on...

No, that is not true. A single-threaded application can issue 2x SSE instructions per clock. If you have 2 multimedia threads running on the same module, they will share. It would be more accurate to say it this way: Bulldozers integer units are true cores, while the floating point units...

Question: If the Bulldozer was only 4 cores and had the same performance, would your opinion change? I know AMD is trying to spin their design as 8 cores but they ain't fooling anybody; its quad core hyperthreading on steroids but their patent laywers say it ain't.

I've seen this error a few times; usually my voltage is too low. Basically, one of the cores (or threads) stopped responding; it got into a broken state will not "wake up." If the processor is running cool, try upping the voltage. If its running too hot, you might open the computer to help...

Go into the bios and reset your proc to default speed. See if you notice a difference. I bet you won't, so why spend the money?

A lot of your SSE code is bogged down by data movement anyway so the practical result is almost like having 2 SSE units per core, example movaps xmm0, [eax+ecx] // 4 data movement instructinos (load) movaps xmm1, [eax+ecx+16] // the other thread can use the 2 SSE pipelines...

MMX instructions are still retarded even with 256-bit registers. punpklbw ymm0, ymm0 etc...

I'm a programmer and noticed none of the stress testers were loading the CPU to its maximum potentional back in the ol' Athlon XP days. So I wrote my own little stress tester called Toast which was specifically targeted at the K8 pipeline-- written in assembly language, I tuned the stresser to...

Don't wait-- nothing coming out in the next 6 months do displace the 980X as the king of CPUs. The only thing stopping me from having this chip is holding out hope the 970 will drop into the $500 price point or less. The forth coming Sandy Bridge is "meh" at this point-- is better clock for...

You've got a good point-- as long as we're not interested in stressing the cpu to the theoretical limit (wouldn't want that overclock fail) perhaps it is more prudent to run a stress-less test.

If heat output is any indication, CoreDamage is among the most stressful. More people are starting to use this in combination with Prime 95.

Didn't you notice the runner up in productivity also had an SSD?

You shouldn't be using new or delete. All programmers should universally reserve static memory and invoke placement new to construct objects and not ever worry about deleting them, like this! static unsigned char* buffer[sizeof(foo)]; new (buffer) foo; foo->HelloWorld(); :D

I use Core damage to test heat and stability.

Glad I logged into the hard forum today. Thanks for making this, I'm going to download the source right away and start using it for non-specific evil purposes loosely related to conquering the world like an egotisic dictator from bombay.

BSOD is more likely memory corruption. If the CPU blows up it just tends to hang. Try backing off the memory clock. I'm pretty sure when I'm running 4ghz on my i7 I've got the memory multiplier at 6x and uncore at 16x.

Don't worry about those temps. I have a launch day i7 920 and my temps (using the retail intel heatsink and fan) are about 60°C idle and 100°C full load. These things are made of armor. 3.2ghz at 1.1375v.

Ayone have the brass to run Core Damage on their 1100 dollar cpu yet? Be interested to the see temps :) I think it would melt with the stock cooler...

This will heat up your CPU real nice...

I bought gskill memory rated at 1600mhz but it won't go over 1333mhz. Reduce the memory multiplier to bring at or under 1333mhz and see if that solves your problem. The stock cooler is fine-- I have a launch day 920 and the thing can run Core Damage at 4ghz on the stock cooler all day long at...

I guess you have to run whichever benchmark has the biggest numbers.