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> If your compiles aren't failing and sed/gcc or anything that deals with |
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> floating point numbers isn't failing, you're not too hot or too overclocked |
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> or, as my dumb donkey thinks, not overclocked enough. |
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That's not quite true Jason. You can have a chip running hot enough |
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it's introducing errors into the computations but not crashing apps. |
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Try a Prime95 torture test and see what I mean. It calculates Mersenne |
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Primes and under the torture test trys to recompute a number of |
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mersenne primes. Because it's testing against a known good value, it's |
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able to detect if any of the math calculations are unstable due to |
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heat. |
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And yes I do overclock. :P Running an Athlon XPm 2500+ @ 2.5GHz(stock: |
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1.8GHz). Temps never crack 40c on air cooling and the rig is rock |
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solid. |
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-Andrew |
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