slayer2cool Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 hey people...its been a while since i pushed my cpu on my current Vcore setting soo i was thinking, i heard that some of you guys mentioned using the F@H to test the stability of your pc system...i was wondering, what if i used it and well my system isnt stable... what is gonna happen? cos i been using Prime 95 to test it for like 6-10 hours.. and if its not stable, i would see an error message and that is all, my pc wont crash or what..but i dont wanna use Prime 95 now, just wanna soo yeah... i mean if it isnt stable, will my system crash and reboot? lol cos i dont like my pc to reboot or crash or hang Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 well why people say that f@h is a good stability test is because f@h is very picky about stability... On my old xp 2800+, I could oc to 2.6, and be perfectly stable in game and prime95, but f@h didnt like it. So I had to run my system @ 2.5 instead of 2.6. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mantonr Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 I think folding @ home is probably going to make your computer crash rather than display an error message. When you perform the stress test in prime95 is makes your computer calculate stuff and then matches the answers your computer produces with the real answers and if your computer has it wrong it tells you about it in the form of an error message. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer2cool Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 thanks guys... its been at least 7 hours of F@H sooo i guess its stable.. hehehe coool Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendellrt Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 7 hours is good, but most people recommend running it (Prime95) for a full 24 hours. Then you can be sure it is a pretty solid oc. I ran mine with F@H and Prime95 together for 24 hours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodySunday Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Yeah prime is better because it test RAM to. 24 hour prime is what I consider stable. Or I do Prime and Folding together for 12 hours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykocus Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 thanks guys... its been at least 7 hours of F@H sooo i guess its stable.. hehehe coool check your stats....if you see many work units with very little points, it means fah didn't like your oc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanosuke_Sagara Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 ya prime freaken jacks the crap out of my system. F@H is a walk in the park. when you run prime95, you can't even load up the internet browser its so slow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_target Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 Yeah, WU's will stop prematurely if OC is no good. If my rig is OC'ed too far I get a "LINCS Warning" and a terminated WU. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSternMystic Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 Yea, Prime95 can test every aspect of your Motherboard-Ram-CPU system. And if there's one little teeny thing off about it, it will let you know. [email protected] so much. It's probably not good to use Folding@home, cause if the overclock is unstable, you'll be wasting the F@H people's time, AND you get like, 12 points for handing in a WU that you didn't do right (Unstable system) so you'd be wasting your own time. Prime95 it, make sure it's stable, then fold like mad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayer2cool Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 ooo thanks man...hmmm but i think F@H and Priming at the same time will slow down my pc a tat.. hahaha nvm im Priming for hours and then i will continue F@H Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oralpain Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 Why would anyone run F@H on a system that has any chance of being unstable? You can return bad resuslts that way, hurting the project. F@H can't detect all errors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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