When using this specially prepared motherboard, a simple benchmark, Prime95, crashes the system in less than 1 minute of operation.
So, your contention that Prime95 was "a simple benchmark", got me to wondering....
I mean, I've never heard of this "simple benchmark" before Kyle mentioned it. Have you? Well thanks to goggle.com, it was a simple matter to discover that Prime95 is not a "benchmark" at all, it's a prime number search software, and is anything but simple:
mersenne.org
mersenne.org
mersenne.org
Also, I did find something very interesting. I wonder if Kyle has the latest Version 20.6? If not........
mersenne.org
"New features in Version 20.6 of prime95.exe
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1) A crash bug was fixed. If you did P-1 factoring followed by trial factoring, then if you found a factor unallocated memory was accessed usually resulting in a crash.
New features in Version 20.2 of prime95.exe
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1) If P-1 stage 1 completed and there was not enough memory to start stage 2 immediately, then an incorrect save file was generated. This bug was introduced in version 20.1. Upon restart of the P-1 factoring job a crash or other unpredictable behavior was possible. This bug was
fixed and this version has special code to properly read these incorrect save files.
Gee, I guess this piece of "Freeware", may not be so "simple" after all. Amazing what you find when you look. Isn't it?
;-)
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