Stress-test four cores?

I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going to bring
it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him. When I had it here
I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets I already have, (Orthos,
Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there a tool for the job? I must admit
I didn't try TAT.

TIA,
--
Shaun.

~misfit~ wrote:
> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going to bring
> it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him. When I had it here
> I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets I already have, (Orthos,
> Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there a tool for the job? I must admit
> I didn't try TAT.
>
> TIA,

Go here. There seem to be later versions than the ones acknowledged on
the main mersenne.org page. Maybe these are considered betas, or a distraction
from their real work or something.

http://mersenne.org/gimps/

This is the one I downloaded.

http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip

I started it, selected the torture test, rather than joining.
It started two "worker threads" on my machine (P4 w. Hyperthreading
is equiv to only two cores).

Give it a shot. I found a reference to it, by scrounging around
http://xtremesystems.org/forums

Paul

Paul wrote:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going to
>> bring it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him. When I
>> had it here I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets I already
>> have, (Orthos, Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there a tool for
>> the job? I must admit I didn't try TAT.
>>
>> TIA,
>
> Go here. There seem to be later versions than the ones acknowledged on
> the main mersenne.org page. Maybe these are considered betas, or a
> distraction
> from their real work or something.
>
> http://mersenne.org/gimps/
>
> This is the one I downloaded.
>
> http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip
>
> I started it, selected the torture test, rather than joining.
> It started two "worker threads" on my machine (P4 w. Hyperthreading
> is equiv to only two cores).
>
> Give it a shot. I found a reference to it, by scrounging around
> http://xtremesystems.org/forums
>
> Paul

I forgot to add, when you open that download with your unzip program,
look carefully at the file path for the three accompanying document files.
They are "../readme.txt". Before you unzip, create a couple layers deep "New Folder"'s
and drop the ZIP at the bottom. The ../readme.txt specification, means
when unzipped, it ends up a level above the location of the ZIP. It
wiped out some readme.txt on my main download folder :-) Not a big
loss, but a stupid way to pack a ZIP.

Paul

Somewhere on teh interweb Paul typed:
> Paul wrote:
>> ~misfit~ wrote:
>>> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going
>>> to bring it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him.
>>> When I had it here I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets
>>> I already have, (Orthos, Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is
>>> there a tool for the job? I must admit I didn't try TAT.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>
>> Go here. There seem to be later versions than the ones acknowledged
>> on the main mersenne.org page. Maybe these are considered betas, or a
>> distraction
>> from their real work or something.
>>
>> http://mersenne.org/gimps/
>>
>> This is the one I downloaded.
>>
>> http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v255a.zip
>>
>> I started it, selected the torture test, rather than joining.
>> It started two "worker threads" on my machine (P4 w. Hyperthreading
>> is equiv to only two cores).
>>
>> Give it a shot. I found a reference to it, by scrounging around
>> http://xtremesystems.org/forums
>>
>> Paul
>
> I forgot to add, when you open that download with your unzip program,
> look carefully at the file path for the three accompanying document
> files. They are "../readme.txt". Before you unzip, create a couple layers
> deep "New Folder"'s and drop the ZIP at the bottom. The ../readme.txt
> specification, means when unzipped, it ends up a level above the location
> of the ZIP. It
> wiped out some readme.txt on my main download folder :-) Not a big
> loss, but a stupid way to pack a ZIP.
>
> Paul

Ok, thanks Paul.
--
TTFN,

Shaun.

~misfit~ wrote:

> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going
> to bring it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him. When I
> had it here I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets I already have,
> (Orthos, Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there a tool for the job? I
> must admit I didn't try TAT.

If you start two instances of Orthos, you can set the core affinity of each
with Windows' Task Manager's (<ctrl>+<alt>+delete) "Processes" tab--
right click, "Set Affinity..."). Pick two cores for each instance.

Somewhere on teh interweb Fishface typed:
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>
>> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going
>> to bring it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him.
>> When I had it here I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets
>> I already have, (Orthos, Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there
>> a tool for the job? I must admit I didn't try TAT.
>
> If you start two instances of Orthos, you can set the core affinity
> of each with Windows' Task Manager's (<ctrl>+<alt>+delete)
> "Processes" tab--
> right click, "Set Affinity..."). Pick two cores for each instance.

Alrighty then, thanks. :-)
--
TTFN,

Shaun.

Somewhere on teh interweb ~misfit~ typed:
> I've built a machine for a mate. Asus P5K-Premium/Q6600. He's going
> to bring it around tomorrow night for me to overclock it for him.
> When I had it here I tried to stress all four cores with the aplets I
> already have, (Orthos, Prime(5..) and didn't do too well. Is there a
> tool for the job? I must admit I didn't try TAT.
>
> TIA,

I found just the thing! Prime95 ver 25.5. Got it from MajorGeeks. Very
simple, just the ticket. :-)
--
TTFN,

Shaun.