Prime95 hates me

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y0bailey

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I've been messing around with my overclock lately and I've come to figure this out

prime95 hates me.

I can't run it for 10 seconds without an error at 3.5, yet i'm stable in every aspect besides prime. I can run every CPU stress program ever at once and no errors, but just not prime. I can game and all that jazz...who knows i jsut give up, anyone else have probelsm like this
 
Prime95 and my system got along well for 6 hours. I left it to run overnight after first building the system. When I woke up, I saw "FATAL ERROR: Hardware Failure"

P4 2.4C gave up the ghost (and it was stock clocked). Prior to the whole CPU going, idle temps were 45 C for the proc, 58 C when running Prime95.

At least your system still runs, right?
 
yea i am happy...it just bothers me that my system isn' "prime95 stable." It makes me want to pull out my eyes. I've upped voltage, tried everything possible, still no luck.
 
I feel your pain, my P4 was stable in everything but Prime95 at 3.2ghz. I had to back it down all the way to 3ghz to get it to run Prime95. Atleast at 3ghz I get to run my ram at roughly 400mhz instead of 338mhz.
 
When my system wouldn't pass prime95 I ran memtest86 and passed it with no trouble. Even still, when I relaxed my timings a bit I went from running prime95 for about 5 hours till failure, to running it 24 plus hours without ever failing...
 
bah, I quit stressin' over sometimes not being able to pass a good 8 hour session of P95.

my system NEVER-EVER crashes with my everyday routine so I dont even bother with P95 anymore.

just one less headache on my shoulders to deal with. ;)
 
Originally posted by ozziegn
bah, I quit stressin' over sometimes not being able to pass a good 8 hour session of P95.

my system NEVER-EVER crashes with my everyday routine so I dont even bother with P95 anymore.

just one less headache on my shoulders to deal with. ;)
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Agreed. I can do everything I want on my PC at 3.4ghz (2.8C OCed). Including a 12hour repeat Sandra2004 burn-in test. Yet, Prime95 crashes within the first 10 seconds of a torture test. Screw it :)

I haven't had a single game crashout yet, and I don't plan on crunching any serious math numbers, so it's not all that important for me.
 
Oh I'm not saying you have to be able to pass prime95 to be a complete human being. However, for me, my prime95 failures were accompanied by data corruption. Everytime I decompressed a big zip or rar file I was apt to see a message about how my source file was corrupt. When in reality it was being corrupted in system memory while I was decompressing. Fixing prime95 fixed my system = made me a happy man...
 
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