Finding my load temp
I just started OCing my 4200+ socket AM2. I was running Prime95 to check for stability but I noticed my CPU usage was only around 50%. I'd like a tool that I can run forever (with 100% CPU usage) and interrupt when I want so that I can find my load temp. Can anyone recommend one?
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you might as well help us out while you are testing your load temp
Is there another program that will be aware of my dual cores and use both at 100%?
EDIT: Ok so stupid me just found the Burn-In tool in SiSoft Sandra (it's been a while). This is just what I was looking for and it uses 100% of both cores.
Hope that helps!
Btw, for F@H, you should check out the following link: http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=293
drasnor wrote it a while back, and it will explain everything you need to know about running F@H on two cores/cpus.
Also, as much as I love F@H, Prime95 and SP2004 will heat your CPU up more than F@H. For me it is usually 3-5'C more. We'd love to have you back on the folding team! even if it is just part-time. Every bit counts!
To get what you want, which CAN help in certain situations (media encoding, think any application that the Pentium 4 really excelled in), is technically very challenging; keeping both cores synchronized, for starters, is a big problem. Secondly, applications need to be written to feed to SMP CPUs in a synchronous manner, with threads being launched to each core in the right order. It's a two-fold problem.