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Prime95, does it matter?

Originally posted by Carnival Forces
prime95 doesn't matter one click of a (ball) mouse if everything else you use your comp. for is stable.
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That's pretty much how I feel. If your locking up in games and such, and Memtest passes, I say whip out Prime95. If not, as long as it's stable during your normal usage, it is fine.
 
Originally posted by Carnival Forces
prime95 doesn't matter one click of a (ball) mouse if everything else you use your comp. for is stable.
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If prime fails, you can't do math. The ALU isn't functioning right. Your computer is broken.

Or, you're one of the one-in-a-million that has some other oddity.

If you can't pass prime, don't run Folding@Home, OR Seti.
 
what is "passing" prime anyway? ive never let it go more than 20 hours. does it finish?
 
I can say that prime95 does work, for instance my computer would fail prime95 within 16-20 minutes!, That led me to reinstall my chipset drivers, after that my computer worked great!

But what throws me off is I ran prime95 on my unclocked system and it failed in 1 and a half hours. Only ran test once

I then overclocked my system from 166 to 190MHZ with v-core of 1.7, and it does not fail anymore? But I have not yet ran prime95 unclocked. Perhaps upping the voltage made my computer stable?
 
Originally posted by eddie500
I can say that prime95 does work, for instance my computer would fail prime95 within 16-20 minutes!, That led me to reinstall my chipset drivers, after that my computer worked great!

But what throws me off is I ran prime95 on my unclocked system and it failed in 1 and a half hours. Only ran test once

I then overclocked my system from 166 to 190MHZ with v-core of 1.7, and it does not fail anymore? But I have not yet ran prime95 unclocked. Perhaps upping the voltage made my computer stable?
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Voltage may have very well done it. If you study physics, upping the voltage can increase the current, and thus the drift speed of the circut.. Thus, you could also increase the ability for the ALU to keep up with the rest of the system / deal with the problems.
 
Originally posted by dobbz
what is "passing" prime anyway? ive never let it go more than 20 hours. does it finish?
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I'd say if you can run for 24 hours, while using the system, you're good. Or at least 24 hours, rest of the system idle.
 
Originally posted by lopoetve
If prime fails, you can't do math. The ALU isn't functioning right. Your computer is broken.

Or, you're one of the one-in-a-million that has some other oddity.

If you can't pass prime, don't run Folding@Home, OR Seti.
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ah, didn't think about that one at all, very good point.. that would suck, eh? to give back bs results to F@H or SETI@H. eck. :eek:
 
Originally posted by Carnival Forces
ah, didn't think about that one at all, very good point.. that would suck, eh? to give back bs results to F@H or SETI@H. eck. :eek:
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Exactly. It's happened before, and they've had to invalidate results. The problem is, that takes them a LOT of time to do, and thats time that could be put to much better use.
 
well, i just called Dell, and after explaining to the Technician what Prime95 was, he said that failing the torture test wouldn't entitle me to a processor replacement. He claimed that the only way to do this would be to "go through the proper troubleshooting channels" and that "Prime95 is not recognized as a troubleshooting tool".

He went on to say I was only entitled to a processor replacement if I actually encountered errors, not if my processor just couldn't pass the Torture Test.

Do you know if Dell or other major corporations would accept Prime95 Torture Test results?
 
Originally posted by Carnival Forces
well, i just called Dell, and after explaining to the Technician what Prime95 was, he said that failing the torture test wouldn't entitle me to a processor replacement. He claimed that the only way to do this would be to "go through the proper troubleshooting channels" and that "Prime95 is not recognized as a troubleshooting tool".

He went on to say I was only entitled to a processor replacement if I actually encountered errors, not if my processor just couldn't pass the Torture Test.

Do you know if Dell or other major corporations would accept Prime95 Torture Test results?
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It's an open source tool, most places would like you do do their tools. Dell has a cpu burn in tool. Ask how to access it, and try it out.
 
Originally posted by lopoetve
It's an open source tool, most places would like you do do their tools. Dell has a cpu burn in tool. Ask how to access it, and try it out.
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aight, when i get over my lazy self i'll try it out (although i did ask him if i could get to teh troubleshooting steps, and he was like, you'll have to call a technician and go through them..")
 
He went on to say I was only entitled to a processor replacement if I actually encountered errors, not if my processor just couldn't pass the Torture Test.
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If it's not passing the torture test you ARE encountering errors though, by definition.

In fact, you can tell him specifically what error it is because Prime95 lists it when it encounters an error.
So you could just say: "well I was factoring prime numbers for fun using an 8K FFT length and I encountered a serious rounding error that gave me a larger than expected result, which means I have encountered errors, so give me a freaking new processor!"
And you don't have to mention Prime95 ;)
 
Originally posted by leukotriene
If it's not passing the torture test you ARE encountering errors though, by definition.

In fact, you can tell him specifically what error it is because Prime95 lists it when it encounters an error.
So you could just say: "well I was factoring prime numbers for fun using an 8K FFT length and I encountered a serious rounding error that gave me a larger than expected result, which means I have encountered errors, so give me a freaking new processor!"
And you don't have to mention Prime95 ;)
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LOL :D good idea...
 
Originally posted by leukotriene
If it's not passing the torture test you ARE encountering errors though, by definition.

In fact, you can tell him specifically what error it is because Prime95 lists it when it encounters an error.
So you could just say: "well I was factoring prime numbers for fun using an 8K FFT length and I encountered a serious rounding error that gave me a larger than expected result, which means I have encountered errors, so give me a freaking new processor!"
And you don't have to mention Prime95 ;)
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LOL. Hell ya!
 
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