SvenBent said: Whats the sudden change in going back to prime95 ? Click to expand...

Well, we have been hashing through setting up the new HSF test system over the last couple months and just doing a bunch of HSF testing here in my office as well. The fact is that it will give us higher CPU package loads than about anything "real world" we can use. So for testing overclocks, it has been great. When we were doing long term stability testing on motherboards we moved away from it because it was burning up our damn CPUs. Keep in mind these CPUs literally had MONTHS of Prime95 time on them. Getting back to testing TR overclocks and stability, it has simply been easier to get a static load with Prime95. Loading up all these cores/threads is not actually easy to keep 100% load. So all in all it is coming down to what is working best for what we are doing and what parts we are working with. I still do not see using it for long term motherboard tests, because I do not want to have to buy new $1000 CPUs every time the thing starts to have OC issues due to electromigration.