05-01-2014 08:12 PM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
05-02-2014 05:59 AM
05-02-2014 06:10 AM
Praz wrote:
Hello
Run the stress test for a minimum of 2 hours. You should choose the amount of memory you have installed. However as you are limited to a max of 16GB for memory testing choose that. In the future both 32GB and 64GB will be available options.
05-02-2014 06:47 AM
05-02-2014 02:56 PM
jab383 wrote:
Some additional comments on stability testing -- all my own opinions with plenty of room for YMMV.
I've used several stress tests to indicate stabilty of an OC profile. They give varying results.
Aida64 isn't very good, except for stressing memory. Profiles that pass CPU, FPU and cache stresses for hours still give me BSOD in more stringent tests. Aida 64 is the best monitoring program for all the sensors going on around a modern CPU. The stripchart graph is valuable for recording what happens during a full screen app or game where you can't see a monitoring display in real time. Its memory read/write/latency benchmark is also a great indication of progress when tweaking memory. Great for sensing/monitoring -- poor for stress/stability tests.
Prime95, including that in Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU), is next best. XTU uses Prime95 as a competitive benchmark. I still get BSOD in Adobe CS6, Realbench, etc. after passing Prime95.
Realbench is better yet and is more fun as a competitive benchmark. I use the benchmark to indicate stability because it covers more of the system. Unfortunately, a profile running well and scoring high in Realbench still throws bluescreens at me in other tests and at a particular point in a CS6 workflow.
A profile that passes OCCT large data set test has never thrown a blue screen at me. In this case, 'pass' means running for a mere three minutes without error! OCCT pulls about the same power as Aida64, but runs at lower temperatures because the heat is distributed around the CPU chip more evenly than the hotspots generated by Aida64. I also run OCCT's Linpack option for 90% memory coverage (4 minutes) as a final test after memory tweaks. From that, you can tell I think OCCT is a pretty good stability test. It's also free to individual users.
Jeff
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