Lopri
Good idea about needing a sticky.
Most office systems are probably idling 80% of the time and the other 20% of the time the CPU utilization is probably 5~10%. For them, Prime95 is meaningless
More to the point those are not overclocked rigs so they don't need testing ,cpu load is irrelevant.
In the end, everything is subjective so if someone doesn't think Prime95 is important and s/he has no problem with daily use of the system, that is "stable".
Maybe but it would take months to be sure of that ,when they could just run P95 & be sure of its stabilty in a day.Additionally what about when new programs are installed?
s/he has no problem with his machine even though the machine doesn't pass Prime95 for 10 mins, then it's probably fine by her/him.
And there's the problem , 'probably' ,but if there is a crash is it software or hardware? ,no way to be sure.
Oh btw if it couldn't pass in 10 mins I can almost gaurentee you it wouldn't be stable
And we shouldn't judge(?) her/his machine
As long as they don't claim their rig is definatly stable
Also, while you're Priming your system, someone comes in from outside and turn your house heat up to 85F, and your system which was doinng Prime for 24 hours fails, then is that machine not stable?
Correct.
And yes P95 doesn't test 3D stabilty ,I think that's well known.
Agreed on the rest
firewolfsm
4hrs isn't enough ,12hrs min ,preferabely 24hrs.
Btw my 2nd rig failed after 3hrs59 mins the other day
StrangerGuy
lol ,yep
WA261
Games and apps let me know I am stable.
Not nessacarily ,your missing the point.
If you were to have a crash ,would it be because of the inevitable occasional(?) software crash or a slightly over the edge o/c? you'd have no way of knowing without some form of stabilty test program ,like P95 or SP2004.
True games don't hold the CPU under continuous full load like P95 does (but they will certainly hit full load often) ,but if you encode or run any of dozens of distributed computing programs (which are becoming more popular all the time) they do (Dimes excluded).
But that isn't the point ,whether you run at full load or not P95 tests your CPU to see if its stable.
Also it might be the next new program/game you install that could have problems if your system was borderline ,you just never know.
No one is forcing you or anyone else to use P95 ,but please don't claim your system is fully stable when you simple don't know!
And its not crap to say that if it can't pass P95 it isn't stable you muppet :roll:
Whether your system is at full load all the time or not is irrelevant ,the test shows that the CPU etc is stable (if it passes of course).
If it fails P95 it is not stable - period.
CP5670
My last processor could do 12 hours of small FFTs with no problem but was consistently crashing in an old DOS game until I backed down slightly.
The author of the program recommends a 24hr test ,maybe that is an instance showing that point?
but if the computer does everything you want it to without crashing or acting abnormal, it doesn't make any difference if Prime is unstable
What about the next new program? or the one after that? ,that's where that theory comes unstuck.
If it fails prime it will cause problems at some point.
If someone just simpley doesn't run it then they may or may not have future problems.