OmniStrata Posted August 8, 2006 Posted August 8, 2006 Ok, I'm following the guide on running 2 instances on two different cores for the cpu... To the letter... Shortcut properties, Affinity, memory setup, everything... However, after, 10 hours, I get two totally stable running Prime95 results, but there's an odd catch... Both of them have been kind of 'frozen' in non-iteration calcuation for 9 of the 10 hours and according to windows manager as well as SpeedFan, only one of the two cores is being baked to a crisp... Now at first I thought: hey, Prime95 stable, 10 hours! no errors!! But since the test screen was like virtually empty, I wondered, did I freeze? Also, It's load temp is about 55 and idle is about 28, no air conditioner in room is on, but when it is on, it dives to 22 at idle and 47 at load... Now I'm not sure what to think but it seems that opteron needs a different dual core setup maybe? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjos Posted August 8, 2006 Posted August 8, 2006 That's kinda weird. Just to be sure, try running stressprime. It's prime95 with a (imho) easier gui: for instance, with a dual core (and the older version of sprime) you simply start up two instances of sprime and use a drop-down menu to set one for core 0, and the other for core 1. You can still choose between large/small fft's, blend, amt. of memory, etc. That link is to the beta release. If you want to read more about it, check here. It works great. Plus, if your core fails you're rewarded with a volcanic eruption. Fun! While running (the old version) it looks like this: Go-0, and Go-1=good. Eruption (save EVH's)=bad. Good luck! thx YeCkeL for the correction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeCkeL Posted August 8, 2006 Posted August 8, 2006 Just to note the link he gave you is not the one in the picure he is using the older sp2004 and linked you to the new beta that has 2 threads in one window. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmniStrata Posted August 9, 2006 Posted August 9, 2006 stressprime huh? I wonder why nobody talks about that prog here... Is it buggy? Or people just worship Prime95 out of fandom? I'll try sprime then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdavis Posted August 9, 2006 Posted August 9, 2006 i use orthose sprime no problems if you have fraps running it will just page. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanDude05 Posted August 9, 2006 Posted August 9, 2006 I found that Dualcore optys will only utilize one core if you tell both Prime95s to test one of the pre-made tests. what you have to do is set them both to custom, with a memory usage of about 400. Keep an eye on the task manager, when you do both cores on a Blend test, only one core will actually run. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmay119 Posted August 9, 2006 Posted August 9, 2006 Yep. Happy Games (AG at the time) wrote a great write up with pictures on how to set up Prime95 to test both cores. Worked like a charm. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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