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yasoumalaka
02-25-2005, 06:06 AM
Can antbody tell me why I can run seti and folding@home for 24 hours, but I can't run prime95 and folding@home for five minutes? In addition I play a lot of UT2004 without crashes. My temps where at 45c when the crash occured. Thanks for any help!
$0m#0n#
02-25-2005, 06:09 AM
Can antbody tell me why I can run seti and folding@home for 24 hours, but I can't run prime95 and folding@home for five minutes? In addition I play a lot of UT2004 without crashes. My temps where at 45c when the crash occured. Thanks for any help!coze it makes errors in Prime but if everything is running ok leave it how it is I dont like Prime
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kiwi
02-25-2005, 06:15 AM
By the way Unreal tournament is very sensitive to hardware overclocks and if it runs fine without crashes that means your system is stable (more or less :D). I can't run prime95 stable above 2.5Ghz.
yasoumalaka
02-25-2005, 06:16 AM
Why don't you like prime. I really don't like it much either, but its the only thing I can find that can crash my computer and that tells me something is wrong. Is there any other test that you know of that I should try.
halcyon
02-25-2005, 08:34 AM
S&M 1.51
http://testmem.narod.ru/snm.zip

Prime95 is able to catch problems on your machine, because:

1) It is one of the programs that can generate lots of heat on your CPU

2) It checks the calculations it does for even miniscule errors in calculation results that may go unnoticed in ordinary apps

S&M is even stronger heat generator (do a search here for more info). NB! You can even kill your CPU or PSU with S&M (I'm not joking!). Be careful when you play with it. It's heat generation is quite extreme.

BTW, thermal diodes reported through onboard sensors can be up-to 20C off, so I really wouldn't trust them as absolute values...
shaolin95
02-25-2005, 08:45 AM
Yes S&M generates more heat for sure but still my CPU can pass the test at speed that it wont do prime so for stability prime still better. I am using NHL2005 now since it seems to be very picky about OC too.
Regards
yasoumalaka
02-28-2005, 08:20 AM
Hey could some one spell out s&m is. I don't think I'd find what I was looking for if I searched for that.