Prime95 - New Releases

[Nelly]

Found this note on another forum from the actual person who updates Prime95.

I have a new version of prime95 for Haswell processors for you to try. It uses Haswell's new fused-multiply-add instructions for a little more CPU stress.

On my system running the small FFT torture test, the new version is about 8C hotter (sorry about that!) than the last version. For me, I had to reduce my overclock by 100MHz to achieve stability with the new version.

Link >> http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1040197621

 

[pgi947]

So how does OcUK test stability on CPU's guaranteed to run at 4.6GHz, as an example?

Presume its mostly binning tests, they know what bin a chip is from they know the voltage range it will work at, any stress is likely from cpu intensive games. My 4.6 4770k has been absolutely solid.

Us Yorkshire lads know where it is at and it is really not torturing the very expensive nice shiney things that we buy and stressing them to the point where it may cause serious damage for no point.

+1

Yorkshire ftw!!!

 

[swiftmetal]

I can say the same i have a awful fx6100 will not keep under 70 with stock with prime and now i have an after market cooler it only just passes prime at stock.

so this means i could not clock my cpu at all. when i play game and even fold its is well under 50 so i have clocked this chip to 4.2 and still under temps in the real world stress testing and never had a problem with it.

please for the love of god dont hold back your expensive cpus for the fact that it cant stay with in a safe temp with unrealistic loads. Use it normally and you will get far better results and even better bragging rights.

I presume that ocuk and i only presume dont quote me on this that they would stress test on things like running 3d mark on a loop and the like but again i am just guessing here but in the real world you will not notice the difference but you will get higher clocks.

 

[shadow_boxer]

Unless you are developing prime (why it is needed I do not know) there is no need for it.

Look at it another way if you wanted to to be able to run for 1 mile a day for health reasons would you really start running a marathon a day risking injury or worse just so you then could get to your goal of 1 mile a day? NO

As 8pack always suggest the best way to test that your computer is stable in "normal" use it to is to use it normally.

Spot on. Good advice. I've achieved stability on my 4770K after shed loads of BF3 and encoding my Blu Rays with Handbrake, by far the two most demanding things my system does at present. Takes time, for example I had a BSOD on my 7th or 8th Blu Ray so went back and increased vcore. Forget torture tests, stick with what your system will actually do.