Best stress tester

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As title says what is best stress tester for dual core. Stress Prime94 only needs to be run twice whereas prime95 has to be installed twice. Saw a post where someone was saying Stress prime94 was running an older code and not as good.
 
TBH I haven't used Stress Prime - it didn't seem to have much to offer over Prime95. Set up was easy - just made two folders on the desktop, dumped the zip into both, launched 'em and set affinity.

I think it's a good idea to use more than one kind of stress app though, particularly if you need your machine to be truly stable. You see lots of conflicting posts: one guy says P95 is useless because he passed a 24hr run but failed within 10 mins of say S&M or OCCT. Then someone else trashes S&M because P95 found faults.

I used SuperPi first (same setup as P95) then S&M (which has dual core support), then I used P95, and finally I ran mixes (one core does one test, the other a different one). Total overkill for most people but my machine is also used for software development.
 
I agree with PARUK, you shouldn't rely on any one program for stability testing. Prime95 and SnM are the main two for CPUs, Memtest86 for RAM is ofter overlooked as well.

Saying that though, I just use SnM for my CPU as it's quick, simple and nothing gets a CPU hotter that I've came across.

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I agree with PARUK, you shouldn't rely on any one program for stability testing. Prime95 and SnM are the main two for CPUs, Memtest86 for RAM is ofter overlooked as well.

Saying that though, I just use SnM for my CPU as it's quick, simple and nothing gets a CPU hotter that I've came across.

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I've never liked P95, it has never ever found anything unstable about any of my intel computers, and never found anything stable about my AMDs (even at stock)

I tend to run super pi, then pifast (although i tend to run a huge calculation that takes all night, lol) then test it for temp stability running 2 instances of taost.

Never tried this S&M but will go get it now and give it a bash :)

*edit* Note to self, do not google for S&M!!!!!! :eek:
 
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Well that's some stress tester, and i have the sparks and a smoking enermax to proove it :mad:

Great, now i just have to hope it's not taken anything else with it!

Posting this from my parents house because i gave them my spare PSU ages back when theres blew up.
 
Agr3sive said:
What enermax was it and how old? That is truly unlucky mate
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Enermax 465w jobbie, at least 3 years old, maybe closer to 4.

I think the hammering it's gotten yesterday and today was too much for it.
 
mmj_uk said:
First person to say SP2004 gets shot.

Prime95 24.14, large FFT's - maximum heat, power consumption. ;)
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SECONDED.

What's with all this malarky about 2 installs of Prime, 2 folders, pah, you guys don't know how to do it properly.

Install Prime 24.14 ONCE. Open the directory and create TWO SHORTCUTS. Then open up the shortcuts properties and in the Target field, add -A0 to one and -A1 to the other, like so -

prime%20settings.JPG


and then set affinity - really that easy - takes about 1 minute to do.
 
Nice one smids - never even thought there might be a command line option!

And commiserations to Bundles for his blown psu. Enermax is normally a good brand so hopefully it kept his other components from harm.
 
Didnt know about SnM. Just downloaded and had a go. Seems good. In the past i've always done superpi1mb, then 32mb and then either raise clock and test again or run 12hrs+ or prime95 small.
 
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