Super PI Checksum - Overclock.net

ChickenInferno · 05-16-09

Those of us that use SuperPI as a means of stability testing/benchmarking know that the checksum feature on Xtremesystems has been down for months and will only give out invalid checksum errors. In the past, I had used SuperPi 32M with Memset in order to tighten timings fast instead of waiting on 2 passes of memtest to finish for each timing and then later testing the whole overclock with memtest. So two questions:

1.) Is there an alternate website(or alternate version/website) for checksum verification so that I can see if my cpu/memory is not erroring?

2.) If not, is there an alternate program that will give a realistic and fast idea of stability while doing memory tuning inside windows?

I'm not asking for answers like Prime05 or OCCT, because those are long tests. I am simply looking for a fairly fast test to give me a reasonable estimate of stability like Super PI does.

ChickenInferno · 05-17-09

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game · 05-17-09

You say you're not asking for Prime95 because you need a fast test, but Orthos will more than likely give you the red flag within a few minutes if something is awry with your rig. Probably the reason why the XS checksum has been down for so long, there is no longer a requirement for it. A few minutes under Orthos should give you the reasonable estimate of stability that you're looking for.

ChickenInferno · 05-17-09

Why is there no longer a requirement for the checksum? Doesn't it verify that the calculation is done correctly or has that been programmed in now?

game · 05-17-09

P95/Orthos is a lot more stressful and thus a much more effective stability tester than SuperPi is; a failed Orthos test will tell you if a calculation has been done correctly. I think the SuperPi checksum was offered only as verifying benchmarks anyways, back in the days of single core CPUs...