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In short The background apps,unneeded os services,unnecessary paging & using the pc while the test is runnig steal so many precious CPU cycles from the test as to render it totally useless.

So.how come I can't run the test properly? The short answer:They do not run the test properly! If this test is so good then why so many people complain against it?some people state that they pass this test but fail prime95 or even worse,get bsod when running normal apps like games.Others report they can pass the test one day & fail another day without any change in their settings. The LinPack stress test is an amazingly well-optimized app that solves a system of simultaneous linear equations by the Gaussian elemination method.Anyone who has programmed an equation solver or at least has studied the algorithm knows that there are lots of memory traffic involved.Without optimized dram access,the CPU would be twiddling its thumbs while the memory is struggling to catch up.Actually the chipset & memory run like hell to keep up with the CPU.Hence this test stresses CPU,L1&L2 caches,chipset & memory all at the same time.It is an excellent all-around stability test,if performed properly.

#Intel burn test or prime95 how to#

How to run LinPack stress test(LinX/IBT)properly-an explanation(maybe a guide) So with low Gflops values, your temps will be lower and your test will be invalid.Īuthor suggest running IBT for 30-50mins or longer than 10 passes. This would slow down your cpu and you may get 15Gflops as opposed to 30+Gflops. However what author seems to suggest is that if you use 'maximum' stress level, you will be using 'available ram' which consists of both physical and virtual memory.

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Here is intel info to back those Gflops values:įor example My Q6600 should give me 16x2.4 =38.4Gflops in stress test.When I run IBT with custom setting and input free physical memory I get 30.2Gflops roughly which is still acceptable though I should get close to 34Gflops going by the article and this is to be expected as real test values could never reach maximum theoretical values due to L1,L2, mobo chipset,ram etc. Those figures above are the theoretical maximum speeds at which cpus can perform stress test calculations at 3GHz and Gflops increase linearly as you increase cpu frequency (speed).

Single core processor 3GHz: 4x3 = 12Gflops Need to look at the consistent values of GFlops (speed) during stress testing i.e the speed at which cpu is calculating those equations.Į.g Theoretically regardless of how much actual physical ram you use: Choose the 'Custom' stress testing in IBT and input the 'Free' physical memory (preferably slightly less) for accurate testing.

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Look at the Free physical memory available in windows task manager Go to Windows task manager and try to disable as many background running programs as you can if possible Close any programs such as web browing etc including antivirus temporarily Ofcourse re-reading the article several times including comments will hopefully make it more simpler to understand:Īpparently from my understanding author suggests before running the program: I don't know know if you guys read it but it seems very interesting. I just came across this article yesterday on how to run Intel burn test/Linpack properly.