Overclockers...how long you prime for?

Shane

Shane

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Hey guys,question is in title.

i heard to make sure your OC is compleatly stable you should be running prime 95 for at least 12+ hours is this right?

sureley this is alot of stress for the processor and would make it closer to death? :D
 
I don't bother, usually a 400FSB is fine for me (it has been for the last year or so) and I've had no crashes. I find real world work is much more realistic and can use the hardware in ways synthetic loaders do.
 
When I was overclocking and really messing with my hardware...The longest I run it might be an hour. Now I only run it for about 15 minutes just to monitor and check temp levels once in a while. The real test is throwing in a game and playing for a couple hours. You can pass a 1 week prime95 burn and have Crysis crash in 5 minutes.
 
I prime for 1 hour or till the 800000 test is done...then I call it.


Sure I could prime for 12+ hours....but I could also be gaming for 11+ hours or watching porn too. So why sacrifice when its not needed?
 
Twist86 said:
but I could also be gaming for 11+ hours or watching porn too. So why sacrifice when its not needed?
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Exactly my theory. I maybe run Prime for about an hour, is that. Just to get the initial test out the way. I mean, I'd rather be testing my PC doing the things I want it to. Like gaming and general use. If it does all that I'm fine.
 
^exactly, for my computer,I tested prime95 on my system for an hour and it came back with the same results as when i ran it for 30 min.
 
Twist86 said:
I prime for 1 hour or till the 800000 test is done...then I call it.


Sure I could prime for 12+ hours....but I could also be gaming for 11+ hours or watching porn too. So why sacrifice when its not needed?
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+1, +1 for avatar as well. MY everday computing is my Prime. If it crashes that means its not stable :).
 
Can't speak for Prime, but I use OCCT for an hour to test for stability. After that, I just carry on with the normal games and programs and make sure everything runs OK.

Both synthetic stability tests and real-world apps should be used to test for extra assurance. I've done Orthos (which I believe is based off of Prime95) overnight before for 8 hours, but I think it's to discover underlying problems you might not otherwise see playing games. I've had settings that passed 5 hours, then failed, and later, I had problems booting. Gaming might not have detected this.

But yea, OCCT is more intense, quick and dirty (1 hour is usually enough), so I prefer to use that.
 
thanks for replying guys,so basicly doing my normal task suchas gaming,web surfing etc will already be testing the stability of my system.

ive been running at these speeds for what,3 weeks,maybe a month and its been stable.
 
Running prime on my e6600 at 3.6ghz screws it up, my screen (2d windows xp desktop) starts artifacting and everything, but yet when i play cod4 everything max it's okay (obviously not running prime at the same time)
time to put down the fsb!
 
I don't run stress tests, I'll run 3DMark06 and play a few games, if it's stable then I'm happy. :)
 
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