stress prime 2004 vs. prime 95

[mrgq912]

My computer crashes during the first 8 mins of using stress prime 2004, but it is stable when using prime 95.

Which do i trust?

Also How can test the quality of my power supply. Its getting a little old, +5 years.
I have everst ultimate download (trial). How should I interperate the voltage readings?

Also does overclocking damage the hard drives?

Thanks?

 

[Vegitto]

If your computer crashes under ANY stress test (that is not designed to make it crash), you're not stable.

Generally speaking, you want your voltage to be between 3% of the specified voltage. For example, the 12V-line should give anywhere between 11.64 and 12.36V. What we don't want, however, is fluctuating. All PSU's fluctuate a little bit, though.

Overclocking does NOT damage harddrives, unless your motherboard doesn't have (S)ATA locks.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
My computer crashes during the first 8 mins of using stress prime 2004, but it is stable when using prime 95.

Which do i trust?

Also How can test the quality of my power supply. Its getting a little old, +5 years.
I have everst ultimate download (trial). How should I interperate the voltage readings?

Also does overclocking damage the hard drives?

Thanks?

Overclocking can damage your hard drives if you dont have a PCI lock in place. Running them at a faster bus speed than what they were designed for (70 vs 66, etc) will send them to a premature grave. Thankfully, most modern mobos have a PCI lock activated by default unless you circumvent it.

 

[phile]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
My computer crashes during the first 8 mins of using stress prime 2004, but it is stable when using prime 95.

Which do i trust?

Also How can test the quality of my power supply. Its getting a little old, +5 years.
I have everst ultimate download (trial). How should I interperate the voltage readings?

Also does overclocking damage the hard drives?

Thanks?

Some clarity is required, here. Are you stressing a dual core processor? Prime95 does not natively support dual core processors. In order to stress both cores with Prime95, you need to run two instances, with each instance mapped to one of the cores. This is done by setting the Affinity of each instance. There are two versions of Orthos, the latest having native support for dual core processors. At this time, it would help to know what CPU you're stressing, and which version of Orthos you are using.

-phil

 

[mrgq912]

i have a opty 146. My powersupply is a antec 480w. Dont' know the exact model but its like 5 years old. And i know specifications for power supplies have changed through out the years.

I was able to run the stress prime 2004 (blend stress test) for longer than 10mins. I think its because I had the sensors turned on. I turned of the sensors for voltage adn temp, and just did the stress test. It ran fine for 15 mins until i stoped it.

I also ran prime95 for 1 hours and 30 mins. Without any errors.

Two days ago i ran memtest for 4 hours without any errors.

I think my power supply is making my system unstable. Once in a blue moon i will get crashes and when powering up my pc the monitor won't turn on, and teh bios will will fail to load. One time at a lan party, my cpu fan just stopped running.

also i am not overclocking anything its just stock speeds.