Quote Originally Posted by Rubycon View Post
Hey guys if you notice your GFLOPS and temps both look lower when running LinX...

For quicker tests try 512MB size. Change number of problems to run to number of minutes to run and select 300. This will run the program for 5 hours regardless of problem size. Do note that if you choose a problem size small enough that you can overflow the program! It has a hard limit of 2^16-1 or 65535 passes and will produce an error after that regardless if you are stable or not. Not that having problem sizes that small does anything...

I've also found that if you select ALL memory it WILL produce max stress/temp/gflops! So it's basically 512MB or bust with 980X. (to FULLY stress the CPU!) But don't run 20 passes only - it's just not enough! 300 minutes - 5 hours - should be enough. If you don't produce errors/crash at that point it should be stable enough IMO. Just remember that selecting anything OTHER than 512MB or ALL will NOT fully stress your CPU! This cannot be stressed enough. (sorry for the pun!)
5hrs linx run Talk about crashing a car into the wall to check if the air bags work! Unless you want to prematurely kill components then 5hr linx runs are fine, otherwise really you don't need to stress for so long with linx, 24/7 day everyday apps will never come close to stressing the system like linx/prime95!