Quote Originally Posted by cantankerous View Post
I prime95 my system today at 1080mhz with 4GB of ram at 5-5-5-12. It failed after 8h32m. A in the mouth to say the least. Sure, it lasted 8h which is what most people go by, but to have it fail shortly afterwards leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It technically should have went forever until I stopped it. Why would it go so long then finally fail? I have to make some adjustment someplace. I want it to go for at least 10h before I am satisfied. The setting was 450 X 7 for 3150mhz cpu clock. Not too high on the cpu but I am trying to max out my memory before I up the multi to see what I come up with.

Im sorry to have to say this, but 8hrs of prime, and I know alot of you guys swear by 8hrs on here, but for me 8hrs is no-where near enough, its not even 1 complete pass of prime.

prime blend starts by running 1024 literations, for it to run 1 complete pass of all the tests and to reach 1024 again it takes approx 9.5-10 hours, however I have had failiures at 16hrs, even 18hrs, if my system fails prime at all I consider it as unstable, and that in my eyes just wont do, instability leads to corrupt data being written to your hard drives.

a successful prime run for me is 3 complete passes, approx 27hrs, I have freinds who have run it for days on end, to be sure of stability.

this also applies to tests like memtest a quick 1hrs test isnt enough, once again i test upto 5000-10,000%, again about 24hrs to run, and have picked up errors after 4000%+, so your see 500%-1000% just doesnt do it, and as for SuperPI a 1meg test of that fits inside your 8meg CPU cache.