Programs used to test stability

[CjStaal]

Since I've been out of the game for a long, long time-- I've been wondering what programs you guys use to check for system stability/benchmarking/artifacts?

 

[trickson]

Since I've been out of the game for a long, long time-- I've been wondering what programs you guys use to check for system stability/benchmarking/artifacts?

Intel burn test , , OCCT , 3dmark11 , Heaven benchmark , furmark .

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Furmark is useless. Use heaven and crysis benchmark tool on 99 loops for graphics tests. The OCCT gpu tool is also nice but really nothing works as well as crysis for whatever reason.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Im pretty partial to Prime95 still for my CPU. I also use Everest (AIDA64) ultimate for benching my RAM.

 

[Peter1986C]

Furmark is useless

Why is that, do you think?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Why is that, do you think?

Try that again.

 

[j.col70]

or you can try Intel Burn test

but you need to run it properly

before running, open task manager and see the amount of free ram.

for example i have 2550mb free ram so in IBT i enter a custom amount of 2500. (just below the free amount)
then i change the threads from auto to 4 (quad core) or how many cores your cpu has.
now every run i make i always get around 40-42 gflops. (consistent)

The following is the estimated GIGAFLOPS for a few chips:

I would choose 'free' memory as available memory will also make use of cache memory which must be storing data for other applications aswell. Windows may free up some physical memory from the cached memory during testing but not totally and i think the rest will be the virtual memory as a compensation.

Available = Free + (Cached - Modified)"

running just free memory will help you get higher gflops, as its just using free ram and not cached ram
this should also have 4 or 2 cores running at 100% (or how many cores your cpu has)

this will give you more consistent gflops score, but will also make your temps higher, as more gflops, the more the cpu is stressed.

i let it run for about 20 mins between each increase in fsb etc...
and then for at least 1hour at final overclock speed

 

[trickson]

Furmark is useless.

Maybe you can elaborate on this . I do not see this as useless at all . It sure will let you know in a hurry if your GPU is stable and will also show artifacts as well . So I do not see how you come up with it being useless at all . And it also heats the GPU up fast ! So you can see if your cooling is do what you want it to .

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Battlefield Bad Company 2.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Battlefield Bad Company 2.

QFT the game is so sensitive to bad overclocks. A good game for GPU stability is Crysis with the details ramped up.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah total speculation but I bet it's probably a combo of the CPU physics and the fact it uses multiple cores well.

 

[Arctucas]

LinX.