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what if 1 core is unstable?

turbotoaster

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just wondering if 1 core is prime stable and the other fails instantly what happens in real life

if a core is struggling, does the other one help it out, or does the system just crash

i was wondering because im messing with prime and volts at the moment(bored) and say for example if 1 core fails instantly then you are normally not dead far away from when it will lock up in windows by increasing the fsb while running prime on the good core

does the good core just say, 'ya lazy git, give it hear ill do it' and if ya push it further and the 1 core locks up do you just run on 1 core for a bit

anybody got a thought on this



the good core failed

FATAL ERROR: Final result was 8D93F4BD, expected: 09C7ADE4.

ive never seen that before, normally it says that ya got 0.5 when 0.4 was expected, any idea?
 
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If a program thread is assigned by Windows to that CPU and it taxes it sufficiently it will crash.

It would be no different to a single CPU, if it was so unstable that if a critical Windows function is running on it, then you could get a total system crash/lock up,

Jokester
 
I’ve wondered about over clocking a dual core processor before, but not got round to voicing my question...

Can you clock the 2 cores at different speed?
Or can you set a different multi on each core?
Or is there anyway of clocking each core to a different extent or are you stuck with running each core in parallel
 
I regret making my move to dual core for that very reason, had a 4000+ that just about did 3ghz phase cooled (not exactly great) but decided to pick up an FX60, 1 core I can't actually find the limit of because the system wont boot into windows due to the other core failing at any voltage but I do know the better core is prime stable for 5 hours at 3.55ghz, quite possibly even higher yet my other core wouldn't even do 3ghz @ 1.65v, pretty terrible especially for an FX60.
 
[ui]ICEMAN said:
I regret making my move to dual core for that very reason, had a 4000+ that just about did 3ghz phase cooled (not exactly great) but decided to pick up an FX60, 1 core I can't actually find the limit of because the system wont boot into windows due to the other core failing at any voltage but I do know the better core is prime stable for 5 hours at 3.55ghz, quite possibly even higher yet my other core wouldn't even do 3ghz @ 1.65v, pretty terrible especially for an FX60.
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id have sent it back and got a refund.

I know oc'ing isnt guaranteed but for a chip that expensive id expect it
 
Think I will sell it but still, it was enough to make me finally ditch the Vapochill. I've never been particularly lucky with overclocking CPU's, my best one was killed by my original Vapochill PE, I was the guinea pig for the major issue that Asetek had missed (thankfully my loss saved many more people) but it was one of the very first 3.06 HT's, did 4.3ghz out of the box, dead 1 day later heh.

Just running on air now, can't even get 2.8ghz on core 0, 1.5v, don't realy want to go too much higher.

Still for a £700 CPU you'd expect better, its why I went for it over the 4800+ because "usually" there's so much more headroom in the top end CPU's.
 
Wouldn't want to waste anyone's time really by doing so. I fully accept its luck of the draw so really I don't let any of these things bother me, sure its dissapointing to spend £700 for a CPU I could have easily had for £300 less out of a 4800 but hey, that's just the way it is. Now if I could just transplant the good core....
 
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