Funniest thing happaened with prime95 today

[Titan7171]

Speaking of prime.......

I never ran it on W7 64bit so this morning I was curious about what my temps might be with all the talk and if any different than on 32bit Vista so I started it up and looked at the temp after a minute it was about 46c......so I clicked it and thought I shut it off. so Im surfing and doing stuff, picked up the kids from school, watched TV........I then start up BFBC2 2 1/2 hours later to play.

WTF Im getting like 70-80fps instead of my usual 110-130fps. I check my cards clocks they ok......check crossfire to make sure both gpu's are running. Alls well.

I open up task manager and WTF 100% cpu usage

primes been running for 2.5 hours unintentionally at 4ghz cpu/2.8ghz NB 64bit 50c 1.57v



I almost rolled out of my chair......you dont know how much I dont like prime. now I just wasted 3 days of electric in 2.5hours

BTW its still going.........

[richierich]

I'd say your system is pretty stable......................................rofl.

[Halos]

What do you mean 3days electric in 2.5 hours?

not that much?

[BeepBeep2]

Lol!

[demonkevy666]

if that's any proof prime doesn't stress the cpu enough you had add gaming too LOL

Try using coredamage and playing a game

I bet you can't

[Titan7171]

What do you mean 3days electric in 2.5 hours?

not that much?

Just an exageration/sense of humor......smile much?

Lol!

yup thats what I did...

if that's any proof prime doesn't stress the cpu enough you had add gaming too LOL

Try using coredamage and playing a game

I bet you can't

Are you trying to murder my system?

[Titan7171]

if that's any proof prime doesn't stress the cpu enough you had add gaming too LOL

Try using coredamage and playing a game

I bet you can't

I got one better for you.........how about prime and coredamage at the same time.......

[demonkevy666]

I got one better for you.........how about prime and coredamage at the same time.......

LOL, now that's a nuclear meltdown.

[Titan7171]

LOL, now that's a nuclear meltdown.

So heres the deal.......it will be about 6 hours of prime and out of the 6 the last hour will be both prime and coredamage running at the same time ambiant water temps 53c load with both running.......and it will be on video, so theres no question that it just took place.

So for those people that think the reason some of us dont like prime is because we cant get our systems 100% stable or we just get little errors here and there.......its not, we just dont like prime. understand?

Now for those that just live by prime.........can you prime and run coredamage? Now I can say your system is not stable until you run 6 hours of prime and then add 1 hour of coredamage on top of that at the same time.......how does it feel knowing your system isnt really stable

Take that prime lovers

video will be posted in 2 hours its hard running prime and coredamage and trying to upload a video at the same time

[informal]

Titan7171 very similar thing happened to me once,only it was OCCT running in the background XD . I was shocked to see the thing managed to ran all night long without an error,but temps were 60C+ (Its my Agena @ 3.1Ghz ,it's a little power hungry viper isn't she ).

[Mats]

WTF Im getting like 70-80fps instead of my usual 110-130fps.

Yeah, thanks to AMD Smoothness Technology™, with some other CPU brand you'd be at 15 FPS or so..

[richierich]

smoothness, haha

[Titan7171]

Titan7171 very similar thing happened to me once,only it was OCCT running in the background XD . I was shocked to see the thing managed to ran all night long without an error,but temps were 60C+ (Its my Agena @ 3.1Ghz ,it's a little power hungry viper isn't she ).

all night? at 60c thats crazy.....thats on air?? you must have been surprised

Yeah, thanks to AMD Smoothness Technology™, with some other CPU brand you'd be at 15 FPS or so..

gotta love smoothness technology

Im changing it to 5 hours total 4 fours of prime plus the 5th hour will be both running at the same time.......I cant do anything on the computer it takes like 8 minutes to close IE and I want to play BFBC2......and I cant do that on this laptop.

I hate cpu stability testing it eats all the cpu cycles.

[audioave10]

You two have good stable systems...don't you?

[Titan7171]

And done

the video 5 hours prime with 5th hour prime+coredamage combo 64bit.

in the video I said 1 hour 11 seconds its 1 hour 11 minutes........almost passed out froom boredem




6 hours prime 4ghz/ 2.8nb




if it can do this, 4.2ghz for gaming is stable with never an error in site.


So.....my cpu is stable.......tired of people saying otherwise........now show me yours.

but I predict many people lurking and not saying much

[chew*]

but I predict many people lurking and not saying much

Or maybe there working on bigger and better and more important things

[charged3800z24]

Or maybe there working on bigger and better and more important things

I am crunch stable @ 4ghz for 3 days.

Titan7171, Prime always stays running when you just hit the "X" You have to click "stop" under "test" ( I believe). But, nice stable test there.

[richierich]

Hey Titan, 1.6v??

[Titan7171]

Or maybe there working on bigger and better and more important things

Im talking about the people who were posting in the other thread.....but I guess you were lurking here anyway no matter how much more important you think your stuff is...... and you felt compelled to reveal yourself..........gotcha

If this is how you show off you have to do better......prove you are doing something more important.......and post pics amd benches also because I dont believe you

Wierd.......they had the time to come and preach the word of prime, insist that peoples systems cant be stable.........but now they are busy I think its more being proven wrong

I remember some people saying I wouldnt get 4.2ghz stable for 24/7 also even before these 125w were released

I just dont really want to hear crap about stability.......I work to hard and tested this system to much for someone who doesnt really know the deal to tell me that my system isnt stable and I get little errors here and there, I dont think so.......thats really the point here.

I am crunch stable @ 4ghz for 3 days.


Titan7171, Prime always stays running when you just hit the "X" You have to click "stop" under "test" ( I believe). But, nice stable test there.

Thats sick.....I couldnt do it. When I play games I want the cpu to game 100% I dont want it busy doing other stuff so I dont think Id be able to do that.

Hey Titan, 1.6v??

The bios is set at 1.57v.........the mobo overvolts because in windows I show 1.58v idle..........but with prime running it actually jumped up to 1.6-1.63v and went back and forth for the whole time, especially when I threw on coredamage.

I only just installed this 64bit a couple weeks ago I havent really tested the difference in voltage that I need for 4ghz it could be less. I installed the OS at 4.2ghz/1.57v the only reason I lowered the core clock is because BFBC2 was giving me problems I never lowered the voltage though.

[Smartidiot89]

Same thing has happened to me tons of time with LinX

Surfing "Oh my gosh this is slow" then I suppose a LinX run ends and I suddenly get a fast system again for ~30 seconds then a slow down again. Usually takes me quite a long while to figure out LinX is still running in the background and I never learn

[crazydiamond]

you could get 4.0 stable w/ less vcore for sure prolly around 1.5v. i guessing 4.1ghz could stable w/ those volts you have now

[Daveburt714]

Titan7171: Thats awesome man... Sure looks stable to me!

I know you have UBER cooling (better than mine!), but I agree with the other guys, you could probably lower that Vcore quite a bit....

My chip actually gets more squirley when I get my Vcore over 1.525.
I've been playing with these long enough to know that all hardware has it's own likes/dislikes, but I actually think you might be able to do a little better if you dropped it down a little..

I could be wrong, but it might be something to play with...

[Titan7171]

Same thing has happened to me tons of time with LinX

Surfing "Oh my gosh this is slow" then I suppose a LinX run ends and I suddenly get a fast system again for ~30 seconds then a slow down again. Usually takes me quite a long while to figure out LinX is still running in the background and I never learn

It was funny because........I had one of those "what now?" moments. I was already blaming the 5970 and thinking how the 30 day return policy had just ended yesterday and at the same time saying "I new I should have sent it back waited for the 4gb to be released".........all this in my head in like a millesecond

you could get 4.0 stable w/ less vcore for sure prolly around 1.5v. i guessing 4.1ghz could stable w/ those volts you have now

Im gonna do some more testing tonight since the watercooling can handle that voltage......I just never touched it because theres no heat, as I look now im idle at 32c.......and you saw my 100% load at 53c at windows 1.6v. Its definitely too high, I think you are right at 1.5v thats where Ill start for 4ghz

Im not gonna go higher because between 64bit and BFBC2 being sensitive about cpu clocks its just to much hassle to bsod in the middle of a game. 100-200mhz is not making a difference at 110-130fps.

Im looking forward to Thuban testing

[Titan7171]

Titan7171: Thats awesome man... Sure looks stable to me!

I know you have UBER cooling (better than mine!), but I agree with the other guys, you could probably lower that Vcore quite a bit....

My chip actually gets more squirley when I get my Vcore over 1.525.
I've been playing with these long enough to know that all hardware has it's own likes/dislikes, but I actually think you might be able to do a little better if you dropped it down a little..

I could be wrong, but it might be something to play with...

You and crazyDiamond are right......but like I said above just never bothered to lower the voltage because of the cooling being so good. will do tonight lets see what happens

[richierich]

Well my 555 is pretty darn stable at 4GHz w/ 1.408v.....but NB is only running @ 2.6GHz. If I run the NB @ 2.8GHz, I have increase my vcore to 1.47v. Quite a jump.