Overclocking Showcase Discussion

quote Original Post

OK, you have your loaded screenshot saved...what now?
Take a note from your BIOS of your RAM timings, CPU frequency, voltages(ram, cpu and chipset/northbridge), divider, and anything else you deem important(which will come into play later). Write them down as accuracy is important here because others will be viewing this as a form of learning...hopefully.

You will notice a portion on the entry about your comments. If you wish you can put anything you'd like to mention here but your cooling system specs should probably be included, too.

A sloppy entry, an incomplete entry, or a fraudulent entry will be rejected and I will respond with the reason via PM for your personal clarity.

[size=3]Necessary links~
Prime95
Orthos Beta
3DMark 05
SuperPi
CPU-Z


Help~
First things first...Prime95 does NOT test both cores while testing for stability, you need to tweak it a bit for it to do this.

To get Prime95 to run on both cores(ie. dual instances of prime):
First install prime95 and create a shortcut.
Right click the shortcut and go to properties. Then go to the target text box and add after what is there already

code

*space*-A0

Hit the spacebar and add -A0.

Then rename that Shortcut Prime95-1

Create another shortcut for Prime95. Right click it and go to properties and then the target text box. Add after what is already there

code

*space*-A1

Press space bar and then type -, the letter A, and the number 1. Rename that shortcut Prime95-2.

Now when you start the testing for each of these you need to set the affinity for each core. Click the first session(shortcut) and set the affinity to core 0, then click the second session and set the affinity to core 1.

Run the tests for at least 6 hours...or 8. Prime95 will timestamp when it is stopped by YOU. If it fails, it will NOT contain a timestamp.

If all of that is too much trouble, you can use Orthos Beta which sets itself up for dual core automatically and it has an auto timer so it always timestamps and will even give you the time in which Orthos failed.

Orthos Beta:
Uses the same source code as Prime95, but it has a much friendlier interface.

*For both Prime95 and Orthos Beta, use only 80% of your system memory for the testing...leave some for your OS. Do the math and alot the correct amount to each core to prevent serious harddrive caching.*

To take a screenshot~
To capture the entire screen, press "PrtScrn" above the insert and delete keys. To capture the active window press Alt+PrtScrn. Go to your Paint program(MSPAINT) and then go to EDIT and then Paste. Then you can save the image as whatever name you want and upload it with Imageshack.us or photobucket.com to get the correct URL for your entry.
[/size]