Fiery

And what exactly do you mean by loss of focus? Do the readings disappear from the SensorPanel? Or they get stuck at a fixed value and stop updating?

I think the issue is that AIDA64 tries to allocate all available (free) physical memory to make sure all the RAM is properly stressed. It seems though that this approach causes resource allocation issues under Windows 10, so from the next AIDA64 beta update we will adjust it to use only 95% of the available physical memory for stress testing. That hopefully will be more user-friendly

Do you have AI Suite installed?

Apply button was never present on that dialog box But only OK and Cancel. Maybe the dialog box is too large (too high in the vertical direction) and the buttons fall out of the visible Windows Desktop area? Can you please post a screenshot of the dialog box?

Thank you, we'll add special sensor support for your motherboard in the next AIDA64 beta update due in a few days from now

Yes, it should be enough to state your system stable under heavy load. AIDA64 can measure up to 127 Celsius on most systems, but CPUs cannot work at such high temperatures. Your CPU most likely works at up to 100 Celsius, and then it starts throttling to prevent permanent damage. Well, that's not an easy question to be honest Surely, with water cooling you could put those temperatures down by 5, 10 or even more Celsius, depending on the performance of the cooling system. But, with regular air cooling, your system will not perform a lot better even with a bigger fan. You could get it down by 5 Celsius, but IMHO it doesn't worth the effort and costs. Especially since what the AIDA64 SST FPU subtest does is the absolute worst scenario. Even gaming all day long (or encoding videos for that matter) will not cause such high temperatures for your CPU, since the CPU load will not be that high all the time while playing a game. So as long as your computer works stable at those temperatures, it is fine and a proper build in my book

That's good news, but I suppose they will also bring a new firmware update, since without that Magician wouldn't work properly. I've heard rumours about 950 Pro having similar firmware deficiencies as SM951-NVMe, but without an actual AIDA64 user feedback I cannot confirm or deny that Fortunately all those issues can easily get fixed by Samsung, and I'm sure they will do their homework soon now.

We'll see. BTW, have you seen any screen shots showing Magician running on 950 Pro, and showing full SMART attributes list? I haven't, yet, but I hope it doesn't mean the firmware is crippled on the 950 Pro as well...

Thank you. Please upgrade to AIDA64 v5.50.3600 (stable update), and send us an updated set of debug dumps of: ISA Sensor Dump SMBus Dump (Full) Embedded Controller Dump (the last one is necessary because you've got a high-end Asus ROG motherboard that uses special EC sensor besides the regular ISA sensor chip) Thanks, Fiery

Thank you in advance. It would be imperative to see exactly which software (or Windows itself) pops up the error message, and what the message says exactly. Because AIDA64 is not supposed to show a warning about low memory, unless of course you enabled the Alerting feature in AIDA64 / main menu / File / Preferences / Hardware Monitoring / Alerting

No, there's nothing wrong with your CPU. Haswell and Devil's Canyon processors tend to work at extremely high temperatures and it's normal that they start throttling under very demanding stress. The FPU subtest of AIDA64 System Stability Test (SST) is designed to put the processor under the heaviest load, and so drive its working temperature to the maximum. You should however let it run for several hours. 5 minutes is great to see if there's an immediate issue, e.g. you get a BSoD or such. As for the other subtests of the AIDA64 SST, you should simply enable them all, and let it run for several hours. Drawing a conclusion of the stress tests is easy: if any error message pops up, your computer restarts, locks up, powers off suddenly, or a BSoD is shown, then your computer is not stable. If the test keeps working without any negative feedback for several hours, then it's a pass. Just make sure to run it in both modes: first with only the FPU subtest enabled, that is the thermal stress test. And the second time with all subtests enabled, that is the general stress test using a more diverse workload. Regards, Fiery

Samsung SM951-NVMe hasn't got a proper firmware at this time, and so it cannot report SMART attributes at all. Not even Samsung's own SSD companion software (Magician) supports it. Hopefully Samsung will soon roll out a new firmware to fix those issues. As soon as the drive gets the proper features in its firmware about SMART interrogation, it will start working with AIDA64 as well. If not, or if you will see any issues, please let us know, and we'll fix it up right away. BTW, the explained firmware deficiency of SM951-NVMe is why we promote the new AIDA64 feature as: "Autodetect information and SMART monitoring for Intel NVMe SSDs" As opposed to describing it as: "Autodetect information and SMART monitoring for NVMe SSDs"

AIDA64 already provides a lot more SMART information on Intel NVMe SSDs than for classic SSDs What kind of information do you miss? Regards, Fiery

What kind of warning is displayed by AIDA64? Can you please post a screen shot? Based on your posts I assumed Windows gives you the warning messages, and not AIDA64 itself.

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Thank you. Somehow the kernel driver cannot be loaded, probably due to a special security policy setting on your system. I've just sent you a private message about this issue.

Please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> Sensor Debug --> ISA Sensor Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. You may need to enable the statusbar from mainmenu / View first. BTW, does your Windows user have administrator privileges?

Under Win7 64-bit you may have to install the following security patch to make AIDA64 work properly: KB3033929. That became necessary because we had to transition from the old kernel driver to the latest and much more secure EV (Extended Validation) kernel driver with SHA2 digital signature. Regards, Fiery

The mentioned new AIDA64 beta update is already available for download at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta

I'd just keep using the drive with HDSentinel monitoring it in the background. I use HDSentinel on my main machine, even though I have no HDDs or SSDs with such pending sectors (yet)

I don't think such an issue makes your driver eligible for a replacement or repair. It's not a re-allocated sector (a.k.a. bad sector), but only a pending sector. You could call it a "suspicious sector" that may or may not become a bad sector. What I would do is install HDSentinel and keep it running, and configure its alerting system to warn you about any further issues that may come up. That pending sector may mean nothing, or may be a "teaser" of worse things to come. It's hard to tell which one, at this time.

AIDA64 warns you about the fact that there's a single pending sector on your HDD. You may want to check it out with another software like HDSentinel as well: http://hdsentinel.com Regards, Fiery

The main problem is that since Windows 8 shutdown doesn't mean an actual shutdown, but more like a low-power sleep state. With the AIDA64 build you have installed you can only have the right UpTime statistics if you disable Fast Startup in Control Panel / Power Options / System Settings. But, we've just implemented a fix to get around that issue, so please upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta Let me know how it works Thanks, Fiery

Changes may or may not be small. You cannot possibly expect to have the same OpenCL driver for a particular GPU architecture intact for 3 or 12 months. And results obtained with a specific OpenCL driver should only be compared with results obtained with the same driver. So when the OpenCL driver gets updated for a GPU, we would have to re-run the benchmarks and update the reference results database.

Several hours is best. You should test all cores at once.