Originally posted by: Sincity
I ran the blended test. But it looks like Prime 95 even overclocked the amount of time it was testing. I started 1 pm this afternoon and it is now almost 9pm. It really only ran for 8 hours or so. That is strange.
I am now running the Large FFTs test and bumped voltage to 1.5V.
Shouldn't fail even after 24 hours? Maybe my OC goal should be 2.4-2.5 ghz.
I will bet the ram is the issue...lower the settings....blend test..tests ram more than cpu
try 2.5-3-3-7-1t..I bet she does fine
also...there are many who feel 24hrs of Prime 95 is a must, some say 48hrs
Personally I like to 12hrs, small, large fft and memtest(6 hrs)...A custom torture test from DFI is a very good compromise
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.php?p=158518&postcount=1
My last 2 A64 setups that were 15 hrs Prime 95 stable never had any issues for gaming, video encoding etc
Prime 95 in readme says 6-24hrs....so whatever you feel best suits you....
8hrs is good spot as well....when will you ever place your setup under full load for 8hrs
remember instabilty can be drivers, apps not playing well together too..winxp is a monster so many places for issues
Someone posted why would you run small fft this is no test of stabilty...well I want to know where my cpu fails...if it does 12hrs plus then I know cpu is ok, I test ram separately to make sure I know it will be ok(now memtest stabilityy does not always equal winxp/game stable sometimes you need to lower speed a bit or timings a touch)
then I run large fft (but a blend test or custom torture test maybe better) to check for xp stability at a given overclock.....
The Problem with stabiltiy, is any time you change something ..stability may change
I have Opteron 165 I was testing. I ran it with ATI Omega Cat 5.12 for 12 hrs Dual prime95 stable..decide to update to 5.13 for better dual core support and CCC..well tried to run prime95 and it would die
it seems it had to do with my monitor power save feature..I set my monitor to turn off after 20min and these drivers...rollback no issue
then i installed 5.13 with old CP and no .net and CCC and ran dual prime for 12 hrs again
It was not my cpu or ram but video driver/system issue...damn it was frustrating