Quote Originally Posted by Skrips View Post
Well, a little update:

I ran OCCT for a total of 30 minutes just to get a test, under the CPU + Ram mixed test. granted, its only a 30 minute run, but still, no crashes. Keep in mind, too, that I am just trying to run the machine at STOCK settings, I haven't overclocked anything.

As for prime, I want to run it, but I thought you neeed to run mutiple instances of it, no? I seem to be having trouble figuring out how to get more than one instance of the program open...

A little help, please? What do I do with Prime95?
When you run Prime95, enter "2" in the "Number of torture test threads to run" under Options > Torture Test. Make sure either "Blend" or "Small FFTs - maximum FPU stress, data fits in L2 cache, RAM not tested much" is selected in this window, as well.

Basically, "maximum FPU stress" means the program stresses the floating point performance of the CPU, where a crash or Prime95 giving you a "thread halted" message would signal an unstable overclock or, very rarely, a bad CPU. "Blend" tests everything, as well as a good deal of RAM.

In a non-stability test sense, Prime95 tests integers in the 2^p-1 form to find new Mersenne prime numbers, if I'm not mistaken. Obviously, these complex calculations require stability.