How long do you run prime95...

[nealio]

How long do you run prime95 until you know your system is fully stable?

 

[BigFNDeal]

I generally let it go 24 hours or until I get an error. When I tested the stability of my desktop OC when I was building it and then burning it in, I ran P95 WHILE FOLDING for 28 hours without error.

 

[nealio]

what test do you run?

there are a couple of them...

 

[wadec22]

if you are testing the whole system, use the blend test. i go 24hrs.

 

[nealio]

Thats what I'm using, Its been running since about 10am yesterday, I just got in this morning to my office and its at 28C !! on a KOOLANCE SYSTEM!!

I'm pretty stoked about that, it seems pretty damm stable
3500 venice @ 2750 11 X 250HTT v core@1.552,

Is that a pretty good OC?

 

[nealio]

Are there any other tests I should run other than prime95. I ran memtest too and the mem is solid

 

[HiJon89]

I like to do 24 hours of dual instances of Prime95 running Small FFT's for CPU.
For RAM I do 10+ hours of Memtest Test #5 looped and then the same thing for Test #8 and then 1000% of Memtest for Windows.
For GPU 30 minutes of ATITool artifact tester running old scanning method.

 

[govtcheez]

there used to be a guide on how to use Prime95 for stress testing. Basically you should:
1) put in password "9876"
2) set priority to 10 <pretty much renders your computer useless for the duration
3) use Large FFT's <Creates the most heat and stresses the CPU the most.

....run it for 24+ hours. I usually run it for 48 hours since it actually detected an error at the 29th hour of testing once.

 

[Susquehannock]

> " I generally let it go 24 hours or until I get an error. " <

Same here.

 

[revenant]

If you want a quick validation of a "should be ok" setting then I think 4 hours is ok, but for complete security and confidence with a very new config, then 24 hours is pretty standard.