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LinX (Intel burntest) is superior to Prime95 small FFT for determining CPU core logic stability.
LinX (Intel burntest) is superior to Prime95 small FFT for determining CPU core logic stability.
- Must run with the IBT thread count set equal to the physical core count of the CPU.
- HT slows it down and reduces the ability to determine stability. Set to 4 threads on a 2600K.
- Set memory to "All".
- Stability Criterion: Must pass 5 cycles minimum, passing 20 cycles is preferred (considered gold standard)
- Must use large FFT, blend is insufficient. <- reports indicate this is false for AMD stability tests, see post #4
- HT is ok for this test.
- Stability Criterion: Must pass 2 hours minimum, passing 12 hours is preferred (considered gold standard)
- Launch one instance per thread supported by CPU (8 instances of HCI memtest for 2600K)
- Set each HCI instance to use an appropriate fraction of the memory...16GB on a 2600K means each HCI instance (there will be 8 instances) are to use 2048 MB.
- Stability Criterion: Must pass 200% coverage minimum, passing 1000% coverage is preferred (considered gold standard)
- Error checking MUST be enabled by the user (check the box), otherwise you are leaving it up to your eyes to detect visual artifacts which renders the test entirely subjective.
- Stability Criterion: Must pass 20 minutes minimum, passing 1 hour is preferred (considered gold standard)
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