Does prime really stress the CPU ?

[Relion]

I mean...I have it running since 6:00 a.m. ... its 1:30 p.m. here ... and temp is still 41C, almost same temp as if idle...

 

[RichUK]

hmm its a possibility if you are running stock volts.. try S&M if you want to get you CPU toasty

 

[Brunnis]

Well, that's AMDs 90nm process for ya! Those lower clocked 90nm A64 hardly heat up if you have reasonable cooling. I've noticed this on my brothers overclocked Sempron. Even at 2.2GHz, no case cooling and stock HSF, it still hovers around just 45C under full load. Idle isn't much lower.

But, yes, Prime95 definately loads the CPU. Mine usually gets 2-3 degrees hotter than when gaming.

 

[Relion]

Originally posted by: Brunnis
Well, that's AMDs 90nm process for ya! Those lower clocked 90nm A64 hardly heat up if you have reasonable cooling. I've noticed this on my brothers overclocked Sempron. Even at 2.2GHz, no case cooling and stock HSF, it still hovers around just 45C under full load. Idle isn't much lower.

But, yes, Prime95 definately loads the CPU. Mine usually gets 2-3 degrees hotter than when gaming.

Nice to hear that...

Im OCing this 3200+ to 2500Mhz @stock voltage and @stock cooling

Thanks for the answers

 

[orangat]

Try the cpuburn utility. It always heats up the cpu more for me.

 

[Mucker]

You'll have a nice little barbecue with S&M too. Lots of good tools here, scroll down to S&M: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_cpu.html

 

[Relion]

Thanks everybody... I ll be frying my CPU this weekend

 

[stevty2889]

You are running the torture test right??

 

[Relion]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
You are running the torture test right??

I am

 

[jazzboy]

Originally posted by: Mucker
You'll have a nice little barbecue with S&M too. Lots of good tools here, scroll down to S&M: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_cpu.html

Totally agree with that. If I stress my Newcastle with that program, my temps go up to:

72C :Q at stock 2 Ghz / stock 1.5 VID (actual vcore 1.56),

69C at 2 ghz / 1.45 VID (vcore 1.5 - exact Newcastle default)

and 59C at 2 ghz /1.3 VID (vcore 1.35 - almost lowest stable).



So yea, it really does make your computer a space heater.