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I read all the great stiff about Intel Burn test being better than prime, got my system stable @ 100 passes of IBT but it BSOD with 30 minutes of prime95! Making my system stable under Prime is MUCH harder than IBT which might indicate a memory issue with what Im using (upgrade on its way!).
I dont think there is a best tool - worth making sure you are stable under both IMHO (if stability s a rgeat concern, some seem happy to be stable under low loadings but have bigger e-penis)
I just OCed my i7 920 to 3.6GHz w/o HT, I did it in 2 different ways and got very different result.
1st way:
20x multiplier
FSB 180
base clock 3.6 GHz
boots fine into bios and windows vista
AVG temp during intel burn test 80C
intel burn test result: 3 out of 10 - failed test
2nd way:
18x multiplier
FSB 200
base clock 3.6GHz
boots fine into bios (however a weird msg popped up) and windows vista
AVG temp during intel burn test 70C
intel burn test result: 10 out of 10 - successful test
The msg in the bios in the 2nd method worries me. It pops up when i select motherboard intelligent tweaker. The message says the system is experiencing boot failure due to overclocking orr change in voltage. But like i indicated earlier, the computer boots into bios and windows vista absolutely fine and the intel burn test also indicated the opposite. Why is that msg popping up? Should i ignore it and keep the 2nd method's settings?
100 passes? What did you do, set the memory usage to minimum?