Prime95

hardc0re_tid · 29 Oct 2006 at 20:51

i have just overclocked my e6300 allendale to 2.8

i am going to run primes torture test. is there any way that prime can damage my system hardware?

Jokester · 29 Oct 2006 at 20:55

If you were extremely unlucky it might burn out a PSU or a mobo, or a CPU if you're cooling was poor. I can only think of 1 or 2 people on the forum who's PC has died after leaving Prime running.

Jokester

Nelly · 29 Oct 2006 at 20:58

I thought Prime95 only tested one core?

hardc0re_tid · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:01

Jokester said:
If you were extremely unlucky it might burn out a PSU or a mobo, or a CPU if you're cooling was poor. I can only think of 1 or 2 people on the forum who's PC has died after leaving Prime running.

Jokester

system specs are:

Intel C2D e6300
Asus P5B Deluxe
520w OCZ PSU
Arctic Cooling Freezer (34c Idle, 50-53c load)
AS5 Thermal Paste

2 120mm fans, one front, one rear exhaust

1 120mm PSU fan above cpu

should i cool my RAM some how

is there a way to monitor temps of the N.Bridge, S.Bridge and RAM

hardc0re_tid · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:02

Nelly said:
I thought Prime95 only tested one core?

run 2 instances of Prime similtaneously

Nelly · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:36

hardc0re_tid said:
run 2 instances of Prime similtaneously

Oh right, wasnt sure that would work, everyone seems to be farting about with Orthos Prime.

joeyjojo · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:51

Nelly said:
Oh right, wasnt sure that would work, everyone seems to be farting about with Orthos Prime.

Do that, it does it automatically as far as I know. You fart about more with prime, making two copies etc.

manoz · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:08

Nelly said:
Oh right, wasnt sure that would work, everyone seems to be farting about with Orthos Prime.

I couldn't get prime 2 run 2 instances so I made 2 shortcuts to it and modified the target of one of them by putting " -A1" at the end of it.(That changes the affinity)

Android · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:25

If you have a dual-core cpu or a dual-cpu setup then use Orthos's multi-threaded version to test both cores:

http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm

hardc0re_tid · 30 Oct 2006 at 08:43

manoz said:
I couldn't get prime 2 run 2 instances so I made 2 shortcuts to it and modified the target of one of them by putting " -A1" at the end of it.(That changes the affinity)

i just copied and pasted the Prime 95 folder into Program Files folder and created 2 shortcuts on the desktop called Prime95 1 and Prime95 2.

so in the Program Files folder i have 2 folders, 'Prime 95' and 'Copy of Prime 95'