Running Prime95 on dual core CPU.

[dagwoood]

Because I have a compatibility issue running memtest(long story, but basically I always get errors running memtest, even at stock speeds with different memory/motherboard/CPU/PSU), I've been mainly reliant on the Prime Blend test to test for memory errors.

Now as you can't run 2 instances of the Prime Blend test at the same time, would running Blend on one core, and either of the CPU intensive tests on the other core, be an effective memory stability test?

Cheers, dagwoood.

 

[dagwoood]

Thanks for the feedback guys

I knew how to run Prime by running from different directories and setting the affinity, but I basically wanted to run blend on both cores but it wont let you.

After reading Rob43's link, I hadn't noticed there's a custom option in Prime95

; so now I can set each instance to use a specific amount of RAM.

What I can't understand is, why isn't SP2004 considered as rigorous as Prime95 at finding problems when they're both based on the same code

 

[dagwoood]

Thanks for the replies guys; it does seem strange.

I'm going to use Prime95 and manually set how much RAM each instance can use.

Thanks everyone for the advice