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Prime 95 on Dual Core Processors

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Hey, when you're stress testing for stability when overclocking, should you use 2 instances of prime95 or just one if it's a dual core processor? or does it matter?
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http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm

Orthos will run dual prime for you.
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Hey, when you're stress testing for stability when overclocking, should you use 2 instances of prime95 or just one if it's a dual core processor? or does it matter?

yes it does matter otherwise yoru only using 50% or your cpu
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Or you can download SP2004 and set the affinity and run two instances
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