stress testing

[set321go]

hello,

i only got my setup yesterday and am trying to stress it but its not working!

i have run super pi and am currently doing a torture test with prime 95

im running E6600 vista x64 ( which isnt half bad appart from its tendancy to gobble ram, but that shall be rectified) with p5n32-E sli, scythe infinity cooler and 3 noctua 1200rpm fans.

I havnt done any oc yet. Im currently hitting 50C and idle at bout 36C. before i get started, whats to hot!?

[inkfx]

Once you start pushing 60-65C is when it's getting too hot.

[hUMANbEATbOX]

i don't understand, what isn't working?

you should use orthos to stress your cpu. it is 2 instances of p95 running at once, one for each core.

http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm

[Tyranos]

Intel TAT does a good job of stressing cpu as well.

[meionm]

Intel TAT does a good job of stressing cpu as well.
Does not report errors, doesn't check stability.

[Tyranos]

Since he just got his stuff up and running he should be doing rough stability testing right now, and more often than not 100% dual load with TAT in my experience had resulted in me knowing there is something wrong faster than priority 10 Orthos. It would cause any number of things like a restart, bsod, freeze, app shutdown, etc long before orthos would give an error. It's good for quickly testing a setting in these rough sessions. I still recommend p10 Orthos or prime for fine tuning though.