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Best stability testing method?

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Ajiki-kun

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It's been a while since I've had to do this, so I'm sorry if I'm asking something more obvious.

But what is the most thorough way of testing stability on overclocks? I've heard good things about Heaven runs and their intensity.
 
folding@home , or playing a game ... i mean you can turn on prime95 and furmark at the same time but it just isnt the same as actually playing a game
 
Its a combination, you cant just rely on one thing. I can run uniengine all day long but BF3 hardlocks or has driver failures.

Leo is not bad but I use BF3, Leo, and other games.
 
BF3 multiplayer is the best stress test I have found for CPU or GPU. BF3 multiplayer will freeze or crash an unstable GPU or CPU (or memory) overclock when AIDA64, Heaven, etc. will pass them.

I went 1.5 hours with AIDA64 doing a full system (including GPU's) stress test. Thought I was good to go ... crashed after 20 minutes of BF3.

Just play your favorite games. If it does what you need it to do it's stable for you. No reason to put your expensive hardware through unnecessary and unrealistic synthetic loads.
 
Ive never had an overclock fail in BF3 but I have in Heaven and its free for those that don't own BF3. Ive also seen artifacts in Witcher 2 when BF3 ran fine.
 
Intel Burn Test + Furmark for 10+ hours

Alternatively, game like you normally would. Patience and not running anything critical are musts.
 
KingRaptor said:
Intel Burn Test + Furmark for 10+ hours

Alternatively, game like you normally would. Patience and not running anything critical are musts.
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Yeah.. I would avoid doing this. Furmark is a bad idea. Just run some intense games and see what happens.
 
Playing a game works well. :) Anytime I play Alan Wake with my overclocked settings, my game crashes. When I set everything back to default in the BIOS, no more crashes. :)
 
Playing different kinds of games, from Starcraft 2, Civilization 5, and BF3. Torture programs won't do #@$%
 
Playing Crysis 2 DX11 max settings + HD textures to test my overclcoks, it's the most demanding game I have. Weird thing is when it crashes it usually crashes during cut scenes and not while actually playing.:confused:
 
I just finished overclocking my 670 top from asus. I found a stable memory and core overclock in Haven and then ran 3dmark 2011 to see my score. Low and behold the overclock was not stable after all. I backed things down until I got 3dmark 2011 stable and now my overclock is rock solid at everything.

I don't own BF3, but people say BF3 multiplayer is very stressful on the system. Be warned though, it seems that some BF3 crashes and instability is due to BF3's coding and driver issues.
 
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