Stress Prime Orthos v. Stress Prime (regular)

[WhipperSnapper]

What is the difference between Stress Prime Orthos and Stress Prime (regular)? Orthos is for dual core CPUs? Regular Stress Prime seems to acknowledge that I have two cores, I think.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Latest version 25.4 or later of PRIME95 senses the number of cores in your system and creates the number of running instances accordingly. I like this better, because the program is explicitly designed for VARYING numbers of multiple cores, while ORTHOS was apparently designed for a fixed number of 2 cores only.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Latest version 25.4 or later of PRIME95 senses the number of cores in your system and creates the number of running instances accordingly. I like this better, because the program is explicitly designed for VARYING numbers of multiple cores, while ORTHOS was apparently designed for a fixed number of 2 cores only.

+1

also on orthos you need to assign affinity for quadcores. And run the program twice.

Prime95 makes things so much easier



Also blend = both cpu and ram tested
Small = cpu tested
Large = ram tested


For overclocking i use small for about 30 min. Then change overclock accordingly. After i find the perfect sweet spot, i run blend for about 7 hours to test both ram and CPU component.

If i fail, its either cpu or ram. For CPU run another 2-3 hours of small, pass, then go on to memtest.

Run memtest for 4 passes, pass. then ram is good.

If both pass but it fails on blend, something is wrong with your mobo.