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Has anyone got a link to the site for this stress test, I tried typing S+M into google and the links are not quite what I was looking for 
S+M Stress Test
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Thanks very much
Soldato
Which link is it, I saw a new copy of speedfan but not this.
Found it under all
http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=301
Found it under all
http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=301
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Its a really intensive program, some machines I have run it on which I have thought to be 100% stable and have passed 8hrs of prime have failed this test in under 5 minutes.
If your rig can pass this, then it will pass anything.
If your rig can pass this, then it will pass anything.
Soldato
I consider BF2 the ultimate test 
Cant try this program out as my machine has no FDD, I havent had one for about 6 years. Seems it wants to install to a disk and daemon tools cant handle the image. I will try some other time
Cant try this program out as my machine has no FDD, I havent had one for about 6 years. Seems it wants to install to a disk and daemon tools cant handle the image. I will try some other time
geiger said:I consider BF2 the ultimate test
Cant try this program out as my machine has no FDD, I havent had one for about 6 years. Seems it wants to install to a disk and daemon tools cant handle the image. I will try some other time
there is nothing to install. ignore the batch file, just double click the .exe to run.
Soldato
Yea I realised that, was going to edit my post as I was doing that I ran it and crashed lol
I'd probably have to drop it a 100mhz to get it stable, works fine in bf2 though so :/
I'd probably have to drop it a 100mhz to get it stable, works fine in bf2 though so :/
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A rig is not stable until it has passed a Long 100% load full (1-2hour) SnM test.
Soldato
I sold some memory to a mate once and he wanted me to fit it.
So as I was doing this I put a temp sensor program on, mbm and he had never touched this pc inside for years. The temp kept rising slowly after we turned it on till it was in the 70's. This was just idling on the desktop. This was a pentium, so I suggested some removal of dust, he was a heavy smoker as well.
We pulled out about a fist full of dust surrounding the cpu and heatsink. His pc was fine though and he had no problems with it at all.
This S&M beast is a pain, dropped my overclock by 650mhz so far and just seing if it will stop freezing the computer up. Prime at least fails and lets you change settings. Only thing I can tell is the southbridge heatsink is getting hot enough to mildly burn my finger, everything else is fine. BF2 does crash after a couple of hours but not sure if I will bother altering the south hsf
So as I was doing this I put a temp sensor program on, mbm and he had never touched this pc inside for years. The temp kept rising slowly after we turned it on till it was in the 70's. This was just idling on the desktop. This was a pentium, so I suggested some removal of dust, he was a heavy smoker as well.
We pulled out about a fist full of dust surrounding the cpu and heatsink. His pc was fine though and he had no problems with it at all.
This S&M beast is a pain, dropped my overclock by 650mhz so far and just seing if it will stop freezing the computer up. Prime at least fails and lets you change settings. Only thing I can tell is the southbridge heatsink is getting hot enough to mildly burn my finger, everything else is fine. BF2 does crash after a couple of hours but not sure if I will bother altering the south hsf
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SnM shouldn't lock up if it fails (unless it's overclocked way too far I guess), it'll flag up that it's failed what ever test it was doing.
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Soldato
I havent tried all these tests out with all options, obviously its time consuming and this rig is not mission critical or anything. I scaled back the timing to stock ( a drop of 900mhz) and it looped the full intense s+m over 2 times so nothing majorly wrong.
I notice it has an option for fail safe or something but normally if it fails, it freezes and requires a full reboot with all that scandisk crap that comes up, whats the option in xp to turn that off since its a real pain and rarely actually needed.
OCCT fails 10 mins in after I went back to a moderate overclock even after I added an 80mm over the southbridge for coolness
I notice it has an option for fail safe or something but normally if it fails, it freezes and requires a full reboot with all that scandisk crap that comes up, whats the option in xp to turn that off since its a real pain and rarely actually needed.
OCCT fails 10 mins in after I went back to a moderate overclock even after I added an 80mm over the southbridge for coolness
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Agr3sive said:If your rig can pass this, then it will pass anything.
sniper007 said:
My experience with 7xOpteron and an Venice 3000+ is quite diff:
OCCT: passed ==> I dont really consider OCCT as an proof of stable
S&M (at 100% loop test): 12 hours+ passed ==> I use S&M to test how good my heatsink is by looking at the delta between idle and load temp
Prime: nope, failed after 5 mins <==> the only stability test !!!
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Soldato
meh, cant get it to work with WinXP 64
There doesn't seem to be any clear-cut guides on how the sliders should be set when using S&M. I can't seem to be able to find anything, anyway. Could someone explain how the sliders and other settings should be set before running an S&M test, please?
What does the power supply test do in this test? Just been running it and a window came up saying vga heating and then has a 3d image. Is it to do with overall system power from psu or is it just power to cpu?
What is best test to run on this program. So far had it on all tests but is there one that is cpu only like small on prime?
What is best test to run on this program. So far had it on all tests but is there one that is cpu only like small on prime?