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[timber715]

And to be honest a 2hr prime is NOT stable, I can back this because last night I was priming and at 2hrs and 45min one of my cores failed.

Quick question. What are you guys using for priming, Large, small or blend?

Thanks

i agree, trying to lower my Vcore a while ago and one core failed after 2hrs... after an hour though, i felt it was gonna be alright...
priming with small ffts
oh well, back to it again...

[RLM]

What I have to say next is not really an educated opinion, but solely based on my experience.

With the x2s and duo cores I used to run 8+ hour prime and orthos runs.

Over the last year with quads, I haven't really bothered.

If it fails after a few minutes, I'll make adjustments and try again. If it then runs for 30 minutes or so that's good enough for me.

I use my kit for a lot of 3d rendering, using a renderer called fprime. Fprime is an interactive renderer that let's you adjust scenes whilst they're rendering. It pushes the cores to the max, more so than other renderers, and is a pretty good indication of stability.

In addition to this I do a lot of photoshop work on large files, and also play games.

With all of that, my kit certainly up to this point has been more than stable.

So for me personally, hours of priming is just overkill.

As I say this is just my experience.

RLM