Opty 165 testing

[Vertigo]

Right, bit of a noob when it comes to stress testing dual-cores so I need some advice. What's the best program to do this with? I keep seeing people mention systems being "prime stable" but I always took this to mean using the old Prime 95 program. This program, however, doesn't seem to want to let me run two copies simultaneously, one on each core, which presumably I need to do to properly test the system.

Is there a different version of the prime program that I should be using?

Not done any serious stressing yet but so far I've cranked the FSB up to 300 giving me 2.7Ghz at totally stock V-Core and Windows seems utterly solid. Does this bode well?

 

[trojan698]

Create 2 shortcuts to prime95, change the target in both shortcuts by adding -A0 and -A1 to the end of the target and rename them accordingly. you can now set which instance of prime uses which core by going to Advanced -> Affinity and using a different core for each instance.

 

[joeyjojo]

Or check out Stress Prime. CPU selection is in the program, no messing about with shortcuts (still need two copies though).

 

[Arthalen]

I second Stress Prime. Gives much better feedback on the status of the testing and easily allows you to test both of the cores.

http://sp2004.fre3.com/

Check it out.

 

[Vertigo]

Ta for the info guys, will start giving it some serious grief tonight.

 

[Vertigo]

Well I've done some testing using SP and I think 2.8Ghz (9x311) is the sweet spot.

At stock core voltage Windows is solid as a rock but it isn't quite Prime stable but raising the voltage a tad to 1.36v seems to have produced a stable system. I need to do a full 24hr run but SP was fine after a few hours this evening which bodes well. Raising the speed much above 2.8Ghz is possible but I have to raise the core voltage above 1.4v which I don't think is worth it for the marginal extra speed.

 

[joeyjojo]

2.8 is a good result. Probably above average, and with only a small voltage increase. Good work

Now get it folding for OcUK Visit the "Team OcUK" section of the forum (at the bottom), link in sig

 

[Bundles]

2.8 is a good result. Probably above average, and with only a small voltage increase. Good work

Now get it folding for OcUK Visit the "Team OcUK" section of the forum (at the bottom), link in sig

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NICE!

 

[joeyjojo]

NICE!

I thought so

Such a nice processor should be doing something useful like protein research (and helping the team in the process )