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RiposoEterno   07-13-2008 at 02:51:02 PM

I keep reading places that people use two instances of prime95 to test the temperature under load, yet one of the stickies I read said you only needed to use one..

Whats the correct thing to do?

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RiposoEterno   07-13-2008 at 03:02:44 PM
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i'm new to the problem so i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing with it, I might have misinterepreted the sticky I read

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Bronze Overclocking badge jsc   07-13-2008 at 03:20:36 PM
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With a quad core, you need 4 instances.

Just a minute, let my crank up the other box ...

Ok. It looks like with a dual core, you need two instances - at least, the way my system is configured.

CPU cores are going to be numbered "0" and "1" for a dual core system and "0" , "1", "2", and "3" for a quad core system.

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RiposoEterno   07-13-2008 at 03:24:13 PM
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Okay so two threads then,

Also, what kind of torture test is recommended for testing CPU temperatures, blend, Small FFTs, or in place large FFTs?

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RiposoEterno   07-13-2008 at 03:34:03 PM
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tried using blend and my CPU cores didnt go anywhere near 100% but at small ffts and large ffts they hit 100% immediately

which one of those do I use?

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RiposoEterno   07-13-2008 at 03:42:48 PM
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Weird, just tried using blend again and my cores shot to 100%

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dagger   07-13-2008 at 04:36:17 PM
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Use small ffts. It produce the most heat.

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Shadowthor   07-13-2008 at 08:52:05 PM
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use small ffts to test cpu stability, blend for cpu and ram stability, and large ffts in my opinion are useless.

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