Quad priming

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Thanks to big wayne who pointed me in the direction of quad priming.

Would like a bit of advice on which version of prime to get, as i know some versions don't let you run more than one. anyone got a link for a version, or somewhere I could look?

How long should I leave it for to ensure it's stable? my rig won't be used for anything heavy like video encoding, mainly games (CSS, Quake4, BF2, CoD2), odd bit of image editing and then word processing and music. I'm away from home during the week for work, and leaving the rig up for 15 hours priming, when it won't be running under load for anywhere near that amount of time seems a bit of a waste to me.
I can understand needing to test it under load, and ensuring it won't crash during heavy gaming, but need some reccomendations as to time.
I don't need it to be stable dramatically quickly, I will probably be trying to get further than my current relatively stable(dual primed, not quad primed) 2.5GHz. Just need it stable for april for i27.

thanks for any help, i'll read on friday when i next have net access.
 
Runnign prime twice will be sufficient then.

Just make sure you have two directories with prime in, then you can start it up twice.

If you use SP2004 make sure priority is set to 10, this will pretty much render the system unusable until you tell it to stop lol. Priority 1 isnt as stressfull ;)


Tom
 
just thought of something to add.

Planning on getting 2GB of RAM, but I don't want to spend a house worth of money on it.
I currently have 2x512 of Corsair XMS 3200, if I get a 2nd GB of this, i'll probably have to run at 2T right?
Does anyone know how far Geil Value will overclock? will it go to 220MHz as thats the most I can see me hitting with a divider on.
Any other recs for under £130?
 
welshtom said:
Runnign prime twice will be sufficient then.

Just make sure you have two directories with prime in, then you can start it up twice.

If you use SP2004 make sure priority is set to 10, this will pretty much render the system unusable until you tell it to stop lol. Priority 1 isnt as stressfull ;)


Tom
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if it doesnt fall at Priority 1, its very unlikely to fall at Priority 10 ==> IMO no point of using Priority 10 unless you can prove me wrong by examples ;)

same goes for quad-prime, 2 instances is more than enough :cool:
 
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