Stratcat wrote:

"stanmc" <stanmcnOspam@ameritech.net> wrote in message

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No problem. I knew my unit was performing well, as it didn't exhibit the
kinds of symptoms flakey computers usually do. I just wondered why after
all these years I suddenly run into a unit that completes very quickly.
I won't be running Prime95 anytime soon unless my next computer (AMD64)
acts up. Very boring. They should put some interesting graphics on the
screen. Too bad the guy behind MBM5 is stopping development.

I'm gonna' chirp in here: Put me solidly in the 'Prime it" camp! I overnite

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BTW - I'm not just addressing your issue specifically stanmc (IMO you've
gotten a noisy WU, as per my reply, earlier -  though a couple hours
Priming never hurts, IMHO), but rather, stability testing, in general.

My $0.03 (inflation adjusted)

More than certain that it was a couple of noisy WU's. The system has never exhibited instability. I don't mind checking when the system indicates potential problems. A simple raising of the multiplier isn't cause for panic unless of course it does strange things. I didn't have to raise the core voltage. It didn't fail to boot. It didn't wipe out data on the harddrive or cause video instability. The prime95 test was simply a waste of an hour that could've been spent processing SETI Wu's.