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Did I setup Prime95 wrong?

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Gerbil333

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I've been using Prime95 for a few years now for stress testing. I normally click Torture Test and let it run the "Blend" test.

I built my new computer on Thursday and ran 6 hours, 40 minutes of memtest86 before installing anything on it. It passed, so I installed Windows and everything and ended up being amazed by its gaming performance, so I didn't get around to stress testing it with Prime95 until last night.

The torture test has been running for 15 hours without errors, but Task Manager reports that I still have about 200-250MBs of available physical memory and I'm only using about 1.62GBs of the page file. With 2x1GB of RAM, shouldn't it be using 2.0GB of the page file, and 99-100% of the physical memory? This same thing happened with 2GBs of RAM in my last computer.

Question 2: Th new computer is running great. I can't figure this out though: Every time I start Windows, Task Manager already shows a Peak Commit Charge of over 1.7GBs, yet the current charge is where it should be, and I never see it go that high. Every startup item is disabled. Odd...
 
I think peak commit is the most it will commit? I dunno. Mine shows a peak of 1142912k and I'm only running 1GB of ram. *shrug*
 
seems to be normal, my system with 2gb of ram does the same, uses 1.67gb, and leaves about 200mb of physical memory available. prime95 isn't really a solid way of testing ram anyway, it's good for maxing your temps, and testing for CPU stability.
 
Originally posted by: stevty2889
seems to be normal, my system with 2gb of ram does the same, uses 1.67gb, and leaves about 200mb of physical memory available. prime95 isn't really a solid way of testing ram anyway, it's good for maxing your temps, and testing for CPU stability.
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Ok, thanks for the confirmation. I wonder why Prime95 uses up all available memory on my systems with 1GB, 512MB, 256MB, etc.

I know Prime95 isn't for testing memory, that's why I ran memtest86 when I first built the computer. I'm running Prime95 now to test overall Windows stability, and I've run plenty of games (over 24 hours worth) to test 3D stability. I still expected P95 to use up all the memory as it does with lower amounts of RAM.
 
Thanks, I'll try that at 2am. I'm able to use this computer while it's running P95 since it still has ~250MBs of RAM available and I want to complete a 24 hour straight testing session I started.
 
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