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good programs to test overclock stabilty

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i know about SuperPI and 3dmark but are there any other good programs to test an overclocked systems stability?
 
what you do everyday and games

the torture test from prime95 also works...but games seem more "reliable" for testing oc's
 
i'll dispute gaming as a "reliable" overclock test, however i fully agree that prime95 blended torture test is a good OC stability test. in fact, i think that it is THE best OC stability test.
 
well...i say gaming because it's not likely that people run stress tests on their computers everyday :p

also i've read about people who have had systems that pass prime95 like nothing, and then hit errors in games :confused: :eek:
 
well, i would say that there are a number of qualifications to that, and many places to go wrong.

what torture test are they running?

i can OC a lot more aggressively, at lower voltages if i content myself with just using the small FFT test as grounds for calling my system stable.

alternately, what constitutes a "pass" in prime? i have come across people who think that if prime runs through the first batch of 1024K FFTs then they are stable.

for myself, i don't consider my system to have "passed" prime until it has primed for 12 hours straight, without me messing around with it.

and if there is anyone out the who only uses their computer to stability test, then they are a pretty sad human being.

myself, i DO game on my computer. i just don't think that firing up halo, doom3 or farcry for a quick bit of recreation is any kind of test of system stability.

and while i have had my system game stable, but not prime stable, i have NEVER had my system in a situation where prime was okay but a game was not.
 
well...I don't know...we don't all have the exact same systems. Soooooo.....different systems, different situations, different people, different software, different settings, etc..etc..

You can't say what you have done = everything possible ;)
 
try just running pcmark04 to test for cpu/ram stability and 3dmark05 for gpu stability, it aint as good as prime 95 but itll prove its stable for the majority of things youll be doing with your pc
 
Prime 95, blended, overnight is my standard for CPU stability. It is arbitrary, but I've had no problems with anything that passes that test.

For video, run rthdribl in a window for several hours, check the temp monitor while it is running & look for artifacts. Incidentally, it is also pretty good for seeing how hot your CPU gets (on my PC, it is within 1C of how hot Prime 95 gets it).

I also use Memtest x86 to test the memory, let it run for several hours.
 
the torture test from prime95 also works
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Is there a right (different) way to run Prime 95? I just double-click on it and let it go for 12 hours or so. Is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks!
 
during the install, prime gives you the options of joining GIMPS, or "just stress testing." if you are using the prog to stress test, you should install it in that way, and then when you want to stress test using it, you open the program, click "options" then click "torture test" then click "OK"
 
if something is stable for Prime 95, it is stable for ANYTHING!!

The heat generated by Prime95 is more than any other load test.

I generally only run it about an hour, if it will do that it will do anything.

That crap with 24 hours of Prime I think is overkill.

However, I've had computers completely stable for benchmarking loops of games, etc for hours on end, run SuperPI, etc.... but not run Prime95 for more than a few minutes!
 
Thats funny, cause my puter was 100% stable at 245x9 with prime, but it wouldnt play any 3d appz for more then 15mins. I backed it off, raised my video card and its stable for all games now. I looped 3dmark2001 for about 10 hours. Its at 242 right now. Also, at 245 i was getting alot of iexplore.exe errors, but was stable to prime over 8 hours.
 
so, highlife, were you by any chance overclocking your vid card at the time that you were prime stable, but not game stable?
 
StressCPU (from the same guy that wrote Electron Microscope that most of the [H]orde uses to monitor their folding boxen) is a good stress test as well. It is at the bottom of the downloads page at www.em-dc.com .


 
DFI Daishi said:
so, highlife, were you by any chance overclocking your vid card at the time that you were prime stable, but not game stable?
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My Video card wasnt overclocked at all.....i was testing my CPU and left the Video card for last.
 
I'd say a few hours of intense multitasking and gaming should do the trick:D

If it doesn't poop out on you under those stressful conditions then what more can you ask?
 
why spend the time to burn it in yourself when you can have prime 95 do it for you
 
np....i didnt take it that way at all. If you system is prime95 stable it shows alot...just not 100%....maybe like 95% eheh.
 
chrisf6969 said:
The heat generated by Prime95 is more than any other load test.
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I find that a prog called Toast generates more heat than prime when you let it go with high priority, but its only like 2-3c higher than prime. But most overclocks are temp stable enough for it to not matter.

Now since this is a oc prog thread, what do you guys do to test gfx oc's? Is there a shaderprime? Or must we endure benchmarking everything we own thats gfx intense?=)
 
Here is what you need:

Caffeine (your choice of delivery mechanism)
Munchies (again, your choice of what)
A couple of these so you don't have to leave your seat
24 hours of free time
Your favorite game(s)

;)

Seriously, you should use a variety of testing tools as well as use your real world games and applications. No one method or tool will stress your entire system for proper testing.

I use Prime95, Memtest86, 3DMark 03 and 05, and SiSoft Sandra combined with whatever my favorite games du jour are.
 
gaming stresses more then anything else...escpicially cause it causes everything to generate more heat(video card cpu harddrives ect)it always makes my pc's heat more then prime by 5C atleast
 
i use pcmark04 and prime 95 for cpu and 3dmark03 for gpu i usaully dont test for memory because i use ratios...i want to get a pair of pc-4000 dimms so i dont have to
 
I deem a system stable if I can run all my normal tests, then use it for at least a month without a reboot.
 
Prime95 and memtest here. As for games as a test, Dungeon seige will cripple my machine faster than anything (even prime95!) and it's only $10 at wal-mart. (end shameless plug)
 
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