Stress Testing?

[Domingo]

Out of curiosity, what are most people using to stress test their overclocks these days?

At one time it seemed pretty simple. Usually Prime95 (small FFT's and blend) and maybe Intel Burn Test and the like. However I'm reading that some versions of Prime shouldn't be used with newer processors, Burn Test is outdated, and some programs like OCCT and AIDA aren't doing a good job.

What are most people using? AIDA, OCCT, Prime, Intel Extreme Tuning, etc. ?

 

[Araxie]

Asus realbench. So far the best stability test out there actually.. 5 consecutive runs of Asus RealBench and you are good to go ready for the real world..

 

[kirbyrj]

RealBench is a 446MB download? WTF is in there?

 

[Araxie]

RealBench is a 446MB download? WTF is in there?

GIMP image Editing(tons of real time processing), Handbrake h.264 Video processing (compression, encoding, decoding etc..), Luxmark, and a combination test of all of those things which are called Heavy Multitasking it use AVX CPU extensions (and as much resources available as possible =D) but most of the weight are the uncompressed videos/images used to bench.. it worth every mb of download.

it have a stress test but the Benchmark tool work much much better to detect a unstable system..

 

[kirbyrj]

I downloaded it...pretty nice tool.

 

[Araxie]

oh.. common let's derail this, please OP its AFK.. post results hahaha..

 

[Domingo]

I'll have to download it when I get home - thanks!

 

[Simmonz]

For CPUs I use Prime95 and OCCT. I do a minimum of 12 hours of small FFTs, 24 hours if I can spare the time. For GPUs I use Heaven Benchmark for 12-24 hours.

 

[primetime]

Asus realbench. So far the best stability test out there actually.. 5 consecutive runs of Asus RealBench and you are good to go ready for the real world..

is this best for older builds as well?

 

[Domingo]

I keep reading that the new version of Prime95 shouldn't be used on 4th and 5th gen Intel Core processors...yet the GIMPS site implies that it was designed for them. I've read not to use it on both Tom's and Intel forums. Seems Anand doesn't use it for any of his testing either.

I know that small FFT's rockets my 4790k to 70 degrees (from an idle of 19) almost instantly. It caps at 80's, but that's with stock speeds.

 

[Simmonz]

I keep reading that the new version of Prime95 shouldn't be used on 4th and 5th gen Intel Core processors...yet the GIMPS site implies that it was designed for them. I've read not to use it on both Tom's and Intel forums. Seems Anand doesn't use it for any of his testing either.

I know that small FFT's rockets my 4790k to 70 degrees (from an idle of 19) almost instantly. It caps at 80's, but that's with stock speeds.

Did they say what the issues were ?

 

[Domingo]

Did they say what the issues were ?

Seems the newer versions output the AVX instructions to the processor's floating point, which creates unrealistically high temps. I've read that from 2 different sources. Seems nothing else will ever push you into those ranges, so it's not realistic.
I have noticed that my older 3770K ran much, much lower on Prime95 than my 4790K in spite the newer processor being much lower in nearly every other test.

I downloaded and ran RealBench and never went over 70 degrees over the course of a half hour, so I suppose I'm rock solid and stable. I get into the mid 70's with AIDA, which is a little rougher...but also a paid program. Guess I'm stable, so I might tinker with a mild overclock now. Coming from a 3770K that could be bumped a whole GHz, I'm not as motivated this time.

 

[Killerxp100]

I mostly use Adia64 to test, but have found that AsusBench caused instability on a system that passed 15 hours of Adia. One notch higher on the voltage and it was stable 2 hours of AsusBench.

 

[Araxie]

is this best for older builds as well?

yup.. for anything.. in fact would be good if you run it and post results as those test can make a good use of your 12 threads.. =D. maybe we can make a new " Asus RealBench results" topic in intel subforum.. =D

I downloaded and ran RealBench and never went over 70 degrees over the course of a half hour, so I suppose I'm rock solid and stable. I get into the mid 70's with AIDA, which is a little rougher...but also a paid program. Guess I'm stable, so I might tinker with a mild overclock now. Coming from a 3770K that could be bumped a whole GHz, I'm not as motivated this time.

Try to run the benchmark suite instead Stress Test.. in many cases it work even better than the stress test.. let it for 5 or continue 6 runs.. (also post results =D)