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    Ok really silly question.. How do you make Prime95 stress out both cores?

    Well, funny as I've never tried doing it.. how do you make Prime95 stress both of your cores?
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    Prime95, I think you open 2 of it. Or get SP2004 its a much better stressing tool... IMO
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    I think you need to open 2 instances, and set the core priority for each instance.

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    Open two instances. Then in the prime 95 menu set one affinity to each core in each instance
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    done.. .. cheers guys.. I would have thought Prime95 would have some dual core bits built in... then again, I might be asking too much
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    the one you need is the orthos beta

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