IntelBurnTest - The new stress-testing program

**AgentGOD** · 08-26-2008, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Razmatazz

I am running 64 bit Vista. I have not run 20 iterations at one time but have run 10 iterations multiple times after minor changes and have been stable with BurnTest but still run into early error (less than 15 seconds) with Prime95 with only a minor overclock (3.2 GHz to 3.4 GHz). I had thought Burntest would find instability faster then other stress testing programs. Is this a 64-bit Vista issue? Any other thoughts?

Do you have voltage variations running IntelBurnTest vs running Prime95? (Talking about CPU voltage at load)

If so, that would be what I'd look into, especially with Load-Line Calibration on. It seems that some boards give the CPU different voltages during different loads. I have not tested Vista 64-bit on this PC, so I couldn't tell you if that's the reason. I've only tested XP x64 Edition SP2 (so I can't tell you how effective it is on Vista 64-bit), and from my experience, it's much much faster than Prime95. My original 10hr Prime95 stable CPU clock failed IntelBurnTest within 2 minutes. For that test, I used the 64-bit version of Prime95.

Originally Posted by WaterFlex

AgentGOD, do u see my message above?

Yeah, I saw your message about slapping a full Windows GUI on it vs console, but I decided to stick with the original style.