View Full Version : prime95 is that sign of instabilty?
boldenc
12-09-2009, 05:26 PM
been testing with prime, but I notice 1 of the cores stayed at 1024k test #3 for like 10 min while other cores finish the test in 2 min. then all cores moved to 8k at same time but the core #3 only did the 1024k 3 tests while other cores did 10 tests.
that's with prime 25.9/ i7 920 @ 4ghz, blend custom set ram to 5200MB
Jor3lBR
12-09-2009, 05:34 PM
Are you sure you have the right version for your OS. There is 2 versions x86 and x64.
This may also happen if any of the cores are in use while prime95 is running, that core will be laggyn duo to activite, but I never saw that much of a difference.
boldenc
12-09-2009, 05:44 PM
I'm using the x64, and test is still running, all cores are running equally now so maybe there was some load on this core.
GrossmeisterB
12-10-2009, 02:42 AM
I have the same "problem" when surfing the net and doing other things in the background...core #3 lags behind, because he is busy doing other things...so you should disable as much things running in the background as possible...
ChaosMinionX
12-10-2009, 03:13 AM
It has to do with how windows is constantly changing around core affinity, that's perfectly normal.