How do I find out if I have a VM CPU chip? Do I have to go to the AMD site and run diagnostics?

SEL

Virtual Machine capable CPU. There is the VM option in BOINC 7.2.28. Your computer can emulate a different computer's CPU operations. You could run your computer as a Pentium 1 or some other CPU.
SEL
Guess that it is more than that; can run many Virtual OS's at the same time and can also emulate other hardware, like floppy disk drives, etc. . .. With AMD, would need to have an AMD-V (Pacifica) chip (Wikipedia).
SEL
They would be useful if a scientist wanted to try to reproduce the results of an experiment that had occurred in the past on legacy hardware, among other uses (could use for designing new hardware systems).
I don't have a V chip, so I will let that go.
SEL

I'm out of date :D

Thanks.

And so it came...
Set the spell-checker to US-English and it still balked at the quoted text... fitting.

As I mentioned near start of this thread as coming soon, a sub-second throttling version, 7.2.29, has just been released for testing. Those who currently use the throttle feature of BOINC to keep their notebooks etc running cooler [default setting like 50-60% of CPU time] are invited to give this a go [don't do this if you're not comfortable with testing versions!]

Present 60% Throttle experience [as set via the % of CPU time preference]: run 3 seconds, pause 2 seconds [synchronous on all BOINC threads last I looked]
New 60% experience: run 0.x of a seconds, pause 0.y of a second.

In past BOINC throttling could lead to application freezes, though the developers seem to have overcome that problem mostly. This is an area to be aware of and calling for urgent reporting.

3 gains from this improvement:

1) Works on all platforms. **
2) Better thermal balance in the CPU [brief cooling periods]
3) Watching Task/System Process manager wont lead you to see Hacksaw Jim at work... the performance/load graphs, since sampling is default about every second, are anticipated to be smooth-er.

Please test and who knows will this lead to WCG actually adopting a new version [and seeing the many many, many many localization updates relating to base language and translations between 7.2.28 and .29, that too will be included].

W64: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.2.29_windows_x86_64.exe
W32: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.2.29_windows_intelx86.exe
W64-Vbox build: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.2.29_windows_x86_64_vbox.exe
W32-Vbox build: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_7.2.29_windows_intelx86_vbox.exe

** Seeing no Linux/Mac builds yet, so this could be a flying in face observation... it *was* the plan, but was *is* the plan is often an offline secret. A similar 'smoothness' is anticipated as with the Windows only TThrottle, sans active temp controlled crunching.

NB: On the GPU side of things, my understanding is this only works for GPU tasks that are assigned to use > 0.5 CPU threads i.e. If specifying for instance 0.1 CPU per GPU task, it wont throttle the GPU.

see no spell errs at this time

Added: The Rom notes on this release, also fixing the BOINC Manager hangs and crashes:
BTW, experience will tell if the throttle is alternating between cores or synchronous... suspect the latter. There's also something funky about Notices... you get them, you don't see them ;O.