Prime95 V. 22

[Brunt]

Got the Version 22
It has a stress test...Will it log the errors for me, or how do I know I got one?

What kind of errors am I looking for?

Thanks!

[Gautam]

The icon in the taskbar will turn yellow, or its text output will read "ERROR:ILLEGAL SUMOUT".

[NookieN]

Illegel Sumout is only one of the errors you might get. Sumouts actually are pretty minor errors; they are usually caused by other programs, not hardware failure. If you see round-off errors or "suminputs != sumoutputs" errors, those usually indicate a hardware problem.

During the torture test, Prime stops on the first error and it writes the error to the results.txt.

[AKULA]

in v22.12 if it sums out I can't get the test to stop and it's a bugger to close even if I use task mananger. I'm almost happy to see just a rounding error.

[Brunt]

Awesome, thanks guys!

I should let it run for 24 hours, and thats a pretty good judge of a stable system w/o any errors?

Also, memtest86, do they make a windows version, or am I gonna have to go buy more floppy disks or cd-rs? hehe

[NookieN]

Originally posted by AKULA
in v22.12 if it sums out I can't get the test to stop and it's a bugger to close even if I use task mananger. I'm almost happy to see just a rounding error.

I've seen that problem on my laptop when I switch between low-power and high-power modes. I think it's been fixed in a newer version.

v23.5 also has some new optimizations for Athlons that should stress them a bit more. v23.6 has a stress-testing feature that pops up a dialog box asking you if you want ot adjust the FFT range when an error occurs.

v23.5 is here: ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v235.zip
You can get 23.6 by making the obvious change there.

[NookieN]

Originally posted by Brunt
I should let it run for 24 hours, and thats a pretty good judge of a stable system w/o any errors?

Also, memtest86, do they make a windows version, or am I gonna have to go buy more floppy disks or cd-rs? hehe

That's a good start, but you should of course try running other tests after you get your system Prime stable.

There is a Windows based memtest (not memtest86). I don't like using it because it cannot allocate all of the system memory to itself under Windows, thus you're not really testing all of your RAM.

[Brunt]

ahh true, thanks for all the advice, any advice on other benchmarks? I have mad onion 2003 for gpu and Sandra Basic, would those work?

[deez]

Both of those applications are good for testing stability. In sandra you can use the burn-in wizard in consecutive loops. If your a gamer then try to play a few hours of your favorite game without lockup.

[Brunt]

What about morrowind at 1600x1200 and everything on high?

[deez]

that should work just fine