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Just thought I would come back and let you guys know of a very nice and FAST stress tester. This tester took only 10 minutes for me to correct my stable test which Prime95 took over 23 hours then reported the problem. So far after I tested with this stress tester I ran Prime95 for past 2 days and 100% stable (had to make sure).
Its very good for stress testing and many others have started using it because Prime95 is outdated and takes too long to find errors now a days.
Linpack is good at CPU stability checking because of it's highly optimized code using all of the CPU's available resources/modules, however, it doesn't put same heavy load at memory and northbridge, no matter how much memory it consumes. Because of that Linpack often passes OK where Prime/OCCT (and eventually MemTest) fail due to RAM/NB instability.
Btw,here is CoreDamage and another latest soft to check your stability:
Latest EVEREST beta version implements GPU VRM current measurement for GeForce video cards,
improved and fixed GPU sensors handling on Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards and full nehalem support now.
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Gigabyte P35-DQ6 (Bios F9B),
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 4.2 GHz,
2GB DDR2 Team Xtreem PC8500C5,
XFX 8600GT Video Card,
2xHitachi SATAII 320GB HDD
Thermalright Ultra-120eX(MX-2)
Intel Burn Test
Linear Mode
