folding@home?

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baballin328

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Can folding@home be used as a stress test? For some reason Prime 95 errors, but folding@home just keeps going. The Prime 95 error is something about 0.49...being rounded to less than 0.4 or something like that. What kind of error is that (memory? cpu?)

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use orthos04, small fft errors usually CPU, and big fft is memory. that's how i used it to get my system stable enough and finding out which part need voltage crancking
 
I think I might have a heat problem! :( While folding@home my core gets to 50C and it hangs. (This is with my system at `~2.49GHz 276x9 at 1.55v). Now I have it at 2.42GHZ 268x9 and at 1.525v. It loads at 48C after the same amount of folding (30min) and it doesn't hang. So should I get a new heatsink? I've always been thinking about getting an AC Freezer 64 Pro. I have a crap mastercooler one rite now that came with my oem processor.
 
Yeah, a better heatsink would definitely be a good idea if you plan to do some serious overclocking. The Freezer is great if you're on a budget.
 
Don't use Folding@Home as a stress test. The results that you corrupt doing that are wasting time on useful medical research.

Orthos is good, memtest is good. F@H is bad for stress testing.
 
So its either run F@H 24/7 or don't run it at all? Well if I run orthos I get the error FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4. I don't know if this means anything but when I was running the StressCPU- Stress cpu with gromacs core, I get this error: ERROR in iteration 7026: Vcoul_ref=2.574412, Vcoul=2.574412
 
Lower your overclock and try again. Try running at 2300mhz, then climb slowly from there. Use Prime 95 for CPU stability testing and memtest to check your memory.

If you plan on folding, you'll want a 24/7/365 stable overclock. No rounding errors :D
 
k i lowered the fsb from 268 to 266 and now its prime stable. :) Been running orthos for an hour already and core is loading at 50C! I think I really need to get a new heatsink :p . After I get an AC Freezer 64 pro. Do you think I could raise the voltage to like 1.575 so I can get to 2.5+ or will that be unsafe? Look at this: http://www.amdgeeks.net/overclock/75 i don't know if it's my stepping or not but this guy is running at 1.7v with something similar to the stock cooler! I've looked at the other steppings and I saw many people are running at 1.6V.
 
1.575 will generate a lot of heat, even with the freezer. Vcores that high are USUALLY reserverved for those on water. It'll probably work, but when overclocking the AMD 64, remember that heat does affect stability.
 
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