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I can't suggest about what to review next, but there is one aspect that could help linux users better. PTS is already strong (or rather the de facto tool) with the benchmark suites, how about having...

Ah thanks. In that case, will try another distro and see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I think I might know the issue. Since turbo-boost was enabled, it is possible that an increase in the base clock frequency caused the RAM frequency to increase...but...

Thanks for the reply.

There are 3 RAM sticks, 2GB each.

BIOS is the latest version.

Well over 6 hours now, and no issue.

Do you still suggest RMA ?

Hello folks, I faced a strange problem last night.

I just set the timings, frequency & voltage of my RAM as per the company-recommended settings at 1333MHz(using memory ratio equal to 5 on my...

^^Thank you. I did go with the option in the end of the list.

Hello folks.

There are three .run files on NVIDIA's ftp site (for X86_64). Not sure which one to download ?

I really appreciate your patience & understanding regarding my query. Thanks for re-affirming the facts for me by posting your own experience. I can sleep well now. Cheers. :)

@RealNC: Sorry for asking again, but why is there a discrepancy between the temperatures shown by the BIOS and lm_sensors ?

Also, as I mentioned, the coretemp values (averaged) match the values...

Thanks for clarifying. :)

UPDATE:

I compiled lm sensors 3.1.2 & have observed this:



Now, the temperatures shown by the coretemp module seem closer to the ones shown in the BIOS. The other (21 degrees) I cannot...

Hello, thanks for replying.

Sorry but how do I get to know which one lm sensors is using ?

I can provide you with this information:

The two modules that need to be inserted when...

Hello folks, I have been running Mprime successfully for testing the stability of my i7 system when overclocked.

But I am concerned about the correctness of the temperatures as shown by...

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, I did set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=8 when executing make. Is it different from -j 8 option ?

Also, after further stripping the kernel, I did get a 5 minutes real time.

Hello folks, I wanted to test my new i7 build and compiled the 2.6.32.8 kernel to check the results. Using the time command to benchmark, I got these results:

real 21m29.909s
user 47m55.350s...