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Prime95 test the generates the lowest heat

nlel1975

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I need to run Prime95 to test for stability but I need the heat kept down to a minumum, is the Prime95 blend test anygood for CPU stability as I think that generates the lowest heat.
 
Call me daft but if you're not using the most intense test, surely you're not properly testing for stability? So you'de be testing for almost no reason?
 
Blend runs both Small (hot) and Large (not so hot) FFT, but it starts with Large so it won't reach peak temps straight away.
 
Jokester said:
Blend runs both Small (hot) and Large (not so hot) FFT, but it starts with Large so it won't reach peak temps straight away.
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Can I just run large FFTs to test for stability or do I need to run small FFTs as well... I don't think heat is the cause of my stability issue rather core voltage, so I won't to run something that will properly test stability but doesn't generate the heat.
 
Just run Large FFT, it will also stress you chipset and RAM in addition to the CPU. But as Adrianr says cherrypicking a stress test to make sure it doesn't fail some what defeats the purpose.
 
Jokester said:
Just run Large FFT, it will also stress you chipset and RAM in addition to the CPU. But as Adrianr says cherrypicking a stress test to make sure it doesn't fail some what defeats the purpose.
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Its not that I`m trying not to make it fail, I don't believe it fails becuase of heat. My tests using in-place FFTs have shown that increasing the vcore increases the amount of time the torture test runs.

If it was down to heat it would always fail when it got to a certain temperature and increasing the vcore would lessen the time it takes to fail becuase of more heat.

I just want to run something that doesn't generate the heat but still puts the CPU under stress where it is still capable of failing if its not stable.
 
Unfortunately i think what you're trying to achieve isn't possible. You're essentially saying you want the stress of small ffts, with the heat of large ffts. The reason small ffts gets so hot is because it puts so much stress on the CPU. You can't have one or the other.
 
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