Mastery over MS at this point (personal question- might help others)

[bungie]

Simcraft uses all your CPU cores,. so I would expect the fans to crank up-- question is what temperature your CPU got to during the run. Anyway, happy it worked for you.

You can manually turn down how many cores simcraft uses and also make it be less labor intensive in general my lowering it's priority

I would definitely check to make sure his heatsink is mounted properly and that thermal paste was actually used between the heat plate on his cpu and the heat sink.

[Schizoide]

Lowering priority doesn't work that way. With a lower priority it will yield resources to other processes on your system. But if nothing else wants to use your CPU, it will still grab 100%.

You can drop the number of cores it uses though, yeah. That could help. But really if your CPU is overheating, that's a problem that should be addressed at the root cause.

[Piz813]

cancel that. this is what happens

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only when i have wow, vent, and firefox ope at the same time... had fans on turbo before i Simmed

[Xim]

0x124 is a hardware error.

sevenforums.com/crash-lockup-debug-how/35349-stop-0x124-what-means-what-try.html

[v1rus]

cancel that. this is what happens

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only when i have wow, vent, and firefox ope at the same time... had fans on turbo before i Simmed

A 124 error is almost always heat related. Typically the GPU or CPU are the root cause. In this case, I'd bet money on CPU.

Is anything overclocked? I'm assuming yes because you mentioned prime95 earlier.

[Slant]

So if you run games, they can cap out at max settings and not use 100% of the cpu/gpu (if they're powerful enough), right?

But when you run a simc with 10k iterations and tell it to use all cores... it'll pretty much run them into the red zone for as long as it takes, right?

Seems obvious to me that things like simc are more likely to find hardware issues than games.

Judging from the log, you seemed to have done well. Congrats, hope you got that trial spot that you wanted.

[Piz813]

A 124 error is almost always heat related. Typically the GPU or CPU are the root cause. In this case, I'd bet money on CPU.

Is anything overclocked? I'm assuming yes because you mentioned prime95 earlier.

i have my CPU to 4.8Ghz. Voltage is 1.3XX- changes as I watch ASUS AISuiete

[v1rus]

i have my CPU to 4.8Ghz. Voltage is 1.3XX- changes as I watch ASUS AISuiete

Bring your CPU back down to factory settings, then run SimCraft again. I'm willing to bet it won't BSOD again. If it does BSOD at factory settings, you likely have a cooling issue. At that point it could be anything from a cooler not seated properly, to the cooler just not working properly.

[DarkBlade6]

TRUST ME its not a hardware issue. Not gonna get into a spec war but I have a i7 4790k @4.8 with GTX 970 Sli 16G Sniper 2133 on a HERO VII Z97 board. I am not risking any of my parts to run a sim...

@ ebah. THis is for UH DPS not blood... I only go blood for insta H daily Q

here is my LTT profile with all my hardware-
http://linustechtips.com/main/user/52022-anthonyc813/

back to original subject- do I stay with MS or go Mastery? I really wanna shine tonight with the NP buff

Seems like an unstable OC to me, 1.3XX volt might not be enough for a stable 4.8ghz OC and with Haswell theres few other voltage to check, like VCC-inn, not only that, but 1.3XXv = toasty Haswell chips ... unless you run it under a custom waterloop, its not safe for All in one loop or high end air cooler.

OT: Off course Mastery will ultimately do more damage if there's constantly more than 2-3 targets in the fight but in general its better to keep both MS and Mastery at the same level as they scale very well with each other, if you stack ton of multistrike, mastery will become you best stats and vice-versa.

[Schizoide]

Either it's overheating (you didn't post the temps) or you aren't using enough voltage for your overclock under load.

[v1rus]

Either it's overheating (you didn't post the temps) or you aren't using enough voltage for your overclock under load.

If this is the case, he likely didn't have prime95 set properly.

@OP: Chances are, you weren't bringing your cores to their knees like they should have been when you ran Prime95. Can you give us a shot of your Prime95 test settings? Also, like Schizoide said, what are your temps? Download RealTemp or CoreTemp to track your core temps. Also, you can try Intel Burn Test instead of Prime95.

[Piz813]

If this is the case, he likely didn't have prime95 set properly.

@OP: Chances are, you weren't bringing your cores to their knees like they should have been when you ran Prime95. Can you give us a shot of your Prime95 test settings? Also, like Schizoide said, what are your temps? Download RealTemp or CoreTemp to track your core temps. Also, you can try Intel Burn Test instead of Prime95.

i just got Prime95 then ran it and went to bed. did not adjust any settings or what not. I set it to 4.4GHz this morning. gonna try to leave wow open and run a Sim after raid

[v1rus]

i just got Prime95 then ran it and went to bed. did not adjust any settings or what not. I set it to 4.4GHz this morning. gonna try to leave wow open and run a Sim after raid

That's why most likely. I'm assuming you just ran Blend, which isn't going to stress the CPU to the max. Small FFT will stress the CPU the most.

Honestly though, if you want to test CPU stability, there is no program that will stress the CPU harder than IntelBurnTest. You will see more heat generated from that program than anything else. If your CPU can pass 20 runs of IBT on max, it's f***ing stable. IBT was specifically designed to stress the CPU harder than Prime95. It's also much faster than Prime95. Prime95 is so popular because, for awhile, it was the only thing out there for testing.

[WillFeral]

This thread turned into a well... ya know. SMH