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[Gav]

Originally Posted by Babrbarossa

OK-- I just found one person on one forum that said not to go over 80% workload on both cores as even orthos can't stress the chip beyond this-- that brings down the max temp signiificantly. I also found a couple of posts that said that core temps tend to be reading higher on the newer multi-core chips because of the more accurate internal sensors and that it's nothing to be alarmed about to see temperatures creeping beyong the 60 mark-- anyone have any comment on this?

I'm not sure why they said to not go over 80%. If you're not maxing the cores out 100% it's not a good "stress test". I'm also not sure why orthos isn't running @ 100% as it works fine for me. I'll do some digging and see if I can figure it out.;)

[Supergrover]

Originally Posted by Gav

I'm not sure why they said to not go over 80%. If you're not maxing the cores out 100% it's not a good "stress test". I'm also not sure why orthos isn't running @ 100% as it works fine for me. I'll do some digging and see if I can figure it out.;)

Ditto
Orthos runs 100% no? does it say 80% in task manager?

or 40/40 ?

[Babrbarossa]

well-- both speedfan and the nvidea monitor both show 100% load when I'm running orthos or TAT. The difference is that TAT gets it hotter (it's not just TAT that says its hotter as the temps read the same on both coretemp and TAT.) The forum post that I found said that running 80% on TAT compares to the load that two instances of Orthos puts on the cores. (please don't ask me to try to find that post again--hehe). So if this is true then orthos obviously isn't running the cores full blast. The question is-- Will other everyday applications ever push it to the 100% load that TAT can do, or is TAT just really good at roasting those cores?

Some programs just are particularly good at stressing the cores. Generally the hotter it gets, the better it's being stressed. This is normal.

[sswilson]

Has anybody had issues with moving the orthos window while it's running?

I've had it running for at least an hour without errors, but when I try to move the window my system freezes up.

I'm not done stress testing at these settings, but I'm able to run 3DMark `06,AM2,TAT, & orthos (as long as I don't move the window) with no indications of problems.

I'm wondering if this is an issue with Orthos, or maybe I've got a problem with my vid drivers.

Any ideas?

[sswilson]

Seems to be related to speedfan......

Dunno, going to let this run overnight to see what happens.