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Hardcore advice needed
Hi all i have just overclocked my computer cpu and Graphics card and want to know what program i can use to test my systems stableness i want to make sure that i am not running my overclocked pc at dangerous levels as i only have air cooling.........
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Feb 9, 2004, 08:19 PM
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Prime95, 3dMark01, 3dMark03
Prime95 for system stability run in turture mode if it comes back with hardware failed then you need lower you overclock, and the other ones for graphics.
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Feb 9, 2004, 10:06 PM
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how long should i let prime95 run for?
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try overnight to see how that works
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Feb 11, 2004, 12:10 PM
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i ran prime95 over night on the defult touture mode the setting that tests abit of everything and every thing was fine my pc passed all tests it was still running in the morning but i turned it of was 10 hours enough?
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Feb 11, 2004, 10:36 PM
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try again wit hthe maximum test overnight, and if it lasts for 10 hours again, your computer works fine
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Feb 15, 2004, 08:08 AM
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You may also want to Run 3dmark in a loop while you do it to stress the video as weill
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If it gives an error after 10 hours or so, some people will still consider it a stable system because most people will never stress they're PC that much under normal use, even when gaming.. But everybody's idea of "stable" is different. If I can run all my games, and all the bench tests, and my PC does it all without crashing, and I run prime95 torture test and get an error after 10 hours, I still consider my PC stable. But if I was building a PC for someone else I would make sure it never threw up an error because they wouldn't know what to do to fix a BSOD if it did happen (they couldn't go into the bios and start adjusting things to make it stable again). They might bug out and start blaming me for a bad build or something- so for other people it has to run prime95 basically indefinitely for me to consider a PC stable. All depends.
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