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    Prime 95 Stability

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by 1201NFTW, Jul 5, 2010.

  1. 1201NFTW

    1201NFTW Notebook Evangelist

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    Decided to turn off turbo boost and over clock, anything over 158 mhz fsb blue screens and i am running prime 95, how long should i run it?
     
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    overnight, atleast 5-10 hours
     
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    actually get OCCT tool and do the CPU stability test its much faster takes an hour... it usually catches errors prime95 does but much quicker
     
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    thanks for the info about OCCT, i got it running now :)
     
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