A question about Prime95

[strelokstk]

Hi, i'm doing some overclocking and noticed that during a test with prime95, the cpu temperature is not always the same. I realize also by hearing the fans noise. Sometimes is 70 degrees, some times 80 and in the last test it reached 100. I was just testing the stability, the only program that will use 100% of the cpu will be cinema 4d during rendering and it only reaches 70 degrees. I would like to know more about what prime95 was doing. It's an i7 4770k @ 4.3

 

[getochkn]

Prime really seems to push even more than a full load, if that makes sense. lol. I run prime and get temps near 55-60 on my cpu, yet just about any other test, or real world usage, it maxes out all 8 cores on my AMD at 100%, yet the temps are 10c lower. I like doing 3d fractals and one of my programs will use all cores/threads/speed and I can render for 3 hours straight and hit 50c. run prime for 3 hours and hit 60c. Both 100% load, 8 cores, so I don't know what prime does but it doesn't seem like an ideal simulation of real world loads for some reason. Intel burn in test only gets me just about 50c too.

 

[strelokstk]

ok thanks!