Prime95 Stability

kanute

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Quick question about prime95. I have heard this is one of the best programs to test cpu stbility, but I'm not sure what is meant by prime95 stable. What should I be looking for? Sometimes, prime95 will stop and say an error has occured and wait 5 minutes to restart. Does this mean it is not stable? Or do you mean it will actually crash the program? Thanks.

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pauloandre

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if you read the prime95 documentation you would know... error in the result ALWAYS means problems in the computer, but it can be the overclocked cpu, the overclocked memory or a real hardware problem not related to overclock. Error in the program itself can also mean problems related to overclock or it can just be another windows bug...
 

FDTzeng

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Usually people associate a time period with Prime95. For example my system is 6hrs Prime95 stable. Diff ppl settle for different amts of time... HardOCP runs them for like 24 hrs though or something

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