How to use prime95

[leejayd]

I have done my first oclock with ABIT IX38 Quad with 6600GO. I have 3.6ghz. I've been trying to figure out how to use prime95 but a little lost.

Can anyone let me know how to carry out a stress test on all 4 cores using this software, say for 24 hours.

Cheers.

Leejayd

[Clunk]

Go here and get the version you need.

Install it, it will ask if you just want to stress test, and if you do, select that option.

Double click the icon and it should load up 4 threads in one screen, choose the blend test and let it do it's stuff.

If something isn't right with your system, it will tell you, or it will hang/reboot etc.

Belated welcome to the forums

[leejayd]

I had an old version of the software that was a little more complex. I downloaded the newer version from the link in your guide and it's much easier. Cheers.

I'm stable for 12 hrs so far....I'm beginng to see how overclocking can become addictive. I'm already planning to increase the juice, although, I guess there are diminishing returns for real world performance.

Reading through the guides (excellent) and other posts I see that moving beyond HSF cooling to Water will mean high speeds, in your opionion, would the extra speed gained from moving to water cooling equate to any increase in real time performance, or is it just for benchmarking. I use my system for photo, video work and gaming.

I have a Q6600 currently clocked at 3ghz with the arctic cooler. I have 2xSamsung Drives in RAID0. 8800GT. I don't mind moving to water if say the extra 0.5 ghz would increase performance. But if it only increase benchmarks I would rather save my cash. I suppose extra clocks will help video encoding but I'm not convinced.

Congratulations on running a top site.

[Clunk]

12 hours is fine.

3.6Ghz is a good speed for 24/7 usage. You might not notice too much of a difference in the couple of hundred Mhz above that, so it's really a case of finding what works best for your system....you might find that it doesn't mind going higher with not much extra voltage, in which case, why not?

Water cooling won't really make your system any faster as such, but it can make it quieter and if it does need a lot of extra voltage, it can keep the temps down. It also looks nice if that's your kind of thing.