lopri
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@sonnerproud: Does that happen right after the load testing, just randomly, or always? If it's right after stress testing, I'd first look how hot it gets around CPU socket area (vrms) and memory. They simply get exhausted after a long run. If it happens when simply overclocked (but not heated), then there is something too tight in the setup. Be it memory, HT, NB, or anything. It's hard to trouble-shoot things like that because there are a lot of paremeters that BIOS doesn't show. And I noticed different multipliers can give different results for overclocking. (not only CPU multi, but NB and HTT as well)
@geokilla: Intel updates Linpack and some versions work on AMD system and some don't. I tried 3 different ones, and one of them caused instant lock-ups on a stable configuration. I use the one that gives the better score (GFlops) among them. I am not sure which version of Linpack the "LinX" is based on, but Linx has been working fine on my system, too. I do like Linpack because it's easy to have it stress all the memory a system has. But when everything is said and done, I find Cinebench to be an excellent stability test for Phenom II. If I can run multi-threaded rendering (forget single-threaded one) like 5 times in a row without BSOD, I become confident that system will pass Prime or Linpack at that configuration. (as long as ambient temperature is maintained equal or low)
I do not think that PII overclocking is particularly difficult at the time, however. It's pretty much the same with A64 overclocking at the end, IMO.
@geokilla: Intel updates Linpack and some versions work on AMD system and some don't. I tried 3 different ones, and one of them caused instant lock-ups on a stable configuration. I use the one that gives the better score (GFlops) among them. I am not sure which version of Linpack the "LinX" is based on, but Linx has been working fine on my system, too. I do like Linpack because it's easy to have it stress all the memory a system has. But when everything is said and done, I find Cinebench to be an excellent stability test for Phenom II. If I can run multi-threaded rendering (forget single-threaded one) like 5 times in a row without BSOD, I become confident that system will pass Prime or Linpack at that configuration. (as long as ambient temperature is maintained equal or low)
I do not think that PII overclocking is particularly difficult at the time, however. It's pretty much the same with A64 overclocking at the end, IMO.
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