Question on Prime95

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Hi, when a overclocked CPU gives an error after few seconds running the
torture test, what is the mining of that? Is it a sign of bad overclocking?
Is the system only apparantly stable?

 

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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:10:47 +0100, "NSA" <silva.adsl@sapo.pt>
wrote:

>Hi, when a overclocked CPU gives an error after few seconds running the
>torture test, what is the mining of that? Is it a sign of bad overclocking?
>Is the system only apparantly stable?
>

Yes, exactly.

However, system could continue to be stable otherwise, if for
example the instability was due to elevated temp, but system
_never_ reaches this temp in everyday use. It is a bad gamble to
take, having a system that fails afer several hours running
Prime95, but one that fails within seconds should certainly be
reconfigured, is not very stable at all. With it that instable
it may be prudent to also reinstall whole OS, apps, double-check
all data, etc... before overclocking it is always a good idea to
backup data, so a restoration is possible after the stability
testing.