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Hi, I'm looking for a USB Portable Toolbox something like Windows PE or whatever. My goal is to have a USB Stick that I can use to stress test computers without installing anything on them. I need to test Both GPU and CPU at the same time for a maximum load. I can't find anything relevant on google. Thanks for your help.

hi, my os- windows 10. Please suggest a good Stability /stress test software for ddr3 RAMs.

Good evening, boys and girls. I've never overclocked before, and whem you see my cooling set up you will think I'm a lunatic for not. I just overclocked my CPU from 4.2ghz stock to 5.0ghz at 1.32 volts. I just ran a stress test with Intel Extreme Utility for 30 minutes, and the temperatures cruised at 70 degrees Celsius. Is that even possible? Thats not even 15 degrees over the temperatures when I ran the test at stock! Is it possible my PC is misreporting the temperatures? RELEVENT SPECS CPU: i7 7700k 5ghz, 1.31 volts, delidded, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal on the inside, Kryonaut on the outside. COOLER: Noctua NH-D15 FANS: 5 bequiet Silent Wings 2 case fans, (4 140mm intakes, 3 front, 1 bottom, and 1 120mm rear exhause) 2 SIlent WIngs 3 fans (used to be attached to a radiator) CASE: bequiet Silent Base 801 with airflow front panel from 802 model As you can see I have a very premium cooling solution, but I did all that to make my computer quiet, as you can see from the BeQuiet case and 6 fans. By the way, the system was completely silent up until I did the stress test. I was successful! But I need more performance now. If this really is how much thermal headroom I have, what is the limit here? SiliconLottery archives say the highest quality chips can push 5.3 ghz at 1.4 volts pls help? I guess my CPU would be dead by now if something was really wrong. Thanks in advance!

Hi, Trying to overclock my RAM and using OCCT as stress test software, noticed that i get 2 error types, one of them is WHEA error. What is that? Note that im using PBO on my 5600 for months stable with zero issues.

Hi, Im working on overclocking my samsung bdie corsair vengeance pro rgb 3200mhz on GB Aorus Elite and 5600x. While testing, Aida64 fails almost immediately even on a slightest OC from 3200 to 3333mhz 1.4v and Vcore Soc 1.1v, nonetheless, passes on Prime95 RAM stress test for hours of run on even harshest OC 3400mhz, tighter timings and higher voltage 1.45v DRAM Voltage and 1.15v vcore SOC. Also it passes OCCT stress test as well. Should I ignore Aida64?

Hi, So I recently started receiving CTD on different games, though when I ran different benchmark tools everything works fine. PC specs(Purchased 2017) Ryzen 7 1700 MSI B350 Tomahawk Stock Cooler(Works fine since I don't OC) Corsair Vengeance LPX rated at 3000 Mhz Single Channel[I had a plan to add another 16 Gb stick to make a total of 32 GB on the road, but it stayed only a plan](Currently running @ 2866, more on that below) MSI GTX 1070 Armour OC(though no OC is applied) Antec True Power Classic PSU 750W Gold(a rebranded Seasonic Unit, read it somewhere) Samsung 970 evo plus 1TB(recent add on) Crucial MX500 500 GB 1 Tb HDD 500GB HDD Windows 10 Pro Bios: 7A34v1M Now, when I initially purchased this PC & assembled it, it had a problem it won't let my Ram module stay at 3000 Mhz, won't boot & I had to clear CMOS, max it would allow is 2666. With further BIOS updates I am now able to sustain 3000 Mhz but now I started facing this CTD, so I clocked back to 2866 Mhz, since earlier this was the frequency I had kept it for a period of 2 years fully stable. When I first noticed the crash, it was on RDR2, then it occured in Rocket League. But when I tried testing my system using FurMark, OCCT, CatZilla(1440p), they ran fine. Initially I had a doubt on my PSU but its voltage reading was on point(did not use a multimeter just used OCCT and HWInfo, I know these are not reliable to check the actual reading of the PSU but I could not manage anything else) when the game crashed, and also when I tried different Benchmarks(Screenshots below). Even if it is the PSU and it lost its power delivery overtime, I thought this scenario while purchasing my PC hence went for a 750W unit, would have been fine with a 650 too. I faced BSOD 2 times only with a long beep(other times it was CTD) from my PC until it restarted(took 30 seconds max). The Stopcode was wpprecorder err and registry error. registry error was fixed by sfc/scannow and it did not occur after that. Help me find the issue, Some Extra info: PC used for: Gaming, After Effects music videos editing, FL Studio Music Production(Yes heavy usage) Windows version : 20H2 Tried uninstalling & reinstalling graphics drivers using DDU. I have not tried reinstalling Windows as I have lots of plugins and softwares installed on boot drive, it will be a total mess, please suggest something else. I don't have a set of separate hardware to check and troubleshoot which component is the culprit. After running Catzilla 1440p, though after running OCCT for 1 hr for GPU, Power, RAM & CPU. Also ran CPU test of OCCT with FurMark and still I got nothing, these same results Power Draw : Current : Temps: HWInfo showed the same results with little difference: Please help me with the this as this is my primary device. I will be doomed if something goes wrong with this, especially in this situation with PC components prices sky rocketing all over the world and more specifically where I live, India. Thanks for having a read too.

Today I installed a new kit in my system (ryzen 3600 paired up with B450 Tomahawk Max) after booting my system I got a message saying "New memory detected. Press F1 for setup or clear CMOS. I ran setup and enabled XMP and hit save settings reboot. After the reboot I checked my task manager it correctly shows 3600mhz frequency. My question is, do I need to run any stress test to make sure its stable? Till now I did not get any crashing issues though.

what software do you professional guys recommend me to use after i build a gaming computer to check proper functionality and find any issues if any? also do you know how can you run unigene superposition for an hour? the benchmark is very short and i need it to loop for an hour at least. thanks :-)

What are the Chipset, Motherboard, VRM temps of Gigabyte GA A320M S2H when a Ryzen 5 3600 clocked at manually 4.2Ghz with decent after market cooler at full stress test AIDA64 EXTREME for 2 hours continuously? Let me know if that temps are ideal or not for long term if the climate is 42 degree celcius or 107 Fahrenheit in Summer of 4 months. Also let me know that this motherboard have some safety features or not if VRM gets too hot or it will Kill the processor instantly or there are some signs that can be observed by which we can know that the VRM temps are gone very high and then we can take clock speed down to 3Ghz for being cool safe. Please reply me after testing or who have concrete experience about these. Thankyou.

Hi, I mounted a new PC for Gaming / Work purpose but I have freeze of death (I need to hold the On/Off button to restart). The freeze occurs randomly (in game, on windows, ...). I made some tests : - Drivers are up to date (as Windows) - I launch Heaven benchmark : it crash two times, then I put PSIE setting to 3 in BIOS (instead of Auto) and benchmark run nice two times. - I made some stress test with OCCT : 60°C top for CPU (100% use during 5 minutes) : works fine, but crash when I click on the "OK" button (I can move the mouse, but when I click : boom) 65°C top for GPU (same): same It looks like that if the issue occurs : if I restart my computer right after sometime it'll crash after I logged into windows 10. As it's a fresh install everyting is new so hard to tell what can be problematic ... I not installed so much (drivers, Spotify, Steam, Battle.net, Discord, Slack, Docker, Windows Subsystem For Linux (which need Interl Virtualisation activated in BIOS too)) Is there any wa I can see logs for a freeze like that ? What can cause a freeze like this ? (as it seem to run smoothly during stress test but failed just after) Thanks ! My setup : - CPU : i9-10500K - MB : Asus Z-490-P - GC : RTX-3070 KF2A - RAM : 16Go 3200Mhz - SSD : M2-vme 970 Samsung - HD : 1 HD 4To - PSU : Seasonic 750W Gold - Watercooling : Corsair H115i PS : sorry for my writing, english isn't my main language.

For a while now my stock i9-9900k, being cooled by the Kraken x72 has been thermal throttling. This usually happens when under high loads which, since I do a lot of work in Unreal Engine is a big issue. The temperature typically spikes to the late 80's when running Prime95 and occasionally ticking into the early 90s. This is all on stock speeds with default BIOS settings. I have tried adjusting the CPU core frequency and offset settings to no avail. Below is a screenshot of the results during thermal throttling while running Prime95. Bouncing between 800MHz and 4.7ghz. I have also tried re-seating the AIO cooler several times and cleaning all the associated parts etc.

Hi, Recently one of my friend, "A", asked if he should do a stress test on his new graphic card even if he's not planning on overclocking I answered that stress testing is a good idea as that would let him know if the card has any abnormality running under heavy load so he can RMA right away, not to mention it would let him know his card's limit in case he want to extend the graphic card's lifespan in the future when the card gets old by overclocking instead of buying a new one. All these without any disadvantage other than the time it takes Another usually tech-savvy friend, "B", argued that stress testing is made specifically to stress the GPU to it's limit, normal gaming usage won't be the same so it's a bad way to test it and it's just a waste of time and money in doing so similar to throwing money into the ocean That's why I'd like PC enthusiasts to enlighten me if I miss something and whether or not my understanding is, like B said, incorrect so that I wouldn't give wrong advice to A if that is the case Thanks!

I did some cpu stress and memory stress testing using prime 95 (and OCCT but not much) and my temps reached almost 93c using a Noctua U12S. I've been monitoring the temperatures with HWinfo64 except the vrms since this board doesn't have a vrm sensor. The stress test lasted almost 2 hours, and when I did it I had the vccio and vccsa at auto which were giving excesive voltage (1.328v and 1.432v respectively). I changed it since to 1.15 and 1.2 which are fine values according to the DDR4 OC Guide.How likely is it that I did damage or overheated the vrms on the board? I only have basic knowledge at these topics, so I don't know if vccio and vccsa affect vrm temps at all.

After overclocking my cpu to 5.0 GhZz it started blue screening when doing tasks that stressed it. Upon stress testing, my FPU crashes after a few seconds. Specs: ASUS Z390-A Intel Core i7-8700k Corsair Vengeance 3000 Mhz RAM RTX 2070 Duke Thanks.

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Recently when turning on my PC, I've been getting "CPU Fan Error" in POST. I'd restart and the problem would vanish. Just today, I was playing GTA V and I get the lovely Windows 10 blue screen. I restart and decide to see what's up. I run MSI Kombuster and everything checks out. When I start Prime95's blend stress test, my PC blue screens again. I'm very concerned, considering this is my first build I've purchased with my own hard-earned cash. Specs and General Usage below. If you need any more info, let me know. Any help to solve this issue is greatly appreciated!! Specs: Intel Core i7 4790K (Not overclocked as of now. Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (Looking to upgrade to an AIO Water Cooler) Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO Motherboard Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card (Looking to upgrade to a GTX 1070) Corsair CXM 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Well aware this was overkill. My EVGA one I originally had in there started making rattling noises like the fan was hitting something within the power supply. Being a first time builder, this scared me knowing the potential of a power supply failure. I ran to the nearest carrier of power supplies and picked this one up) Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit Fractal Design Define R5 w/Window ATX Mid Tower Case (Because the case is often the culprit of the ol' Windows blue screen) Common PC Usage: Gaming (Overwatch, NBA 2K17, Team Fortress 2, GTA V) Editing Work (Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Photoshop, After Effects) Misc Usage (Web Browsing, Music, etc)

I am doing a science fair project where I test the effectiveness of fancy silver based thermal compound versus normal thermal compound. The only issue is i don't know the best stress test i can use to test CPU heat. I need a stress test that will run the cpu at a very high heat and give me a peak temp after it is done. The closest thing I have found is running cinibench with a CPU temp reader on the side. Is there any thing more thermal based I can do. I am using a: -Intel 6600k -Coolermaster hyper T2 -Asus Z170-A Side note... it is a new rig and In was wondering if asus has an in OS tweeter app or something software related for the motherboard. I know their graphics cards do but i haven't ordered mine yet. I see their web sight has something like that but nothing like that was installed with the included drivers. Thanks.

I just overclocked my CPU to 4.6 GHz and ran a stress test. It went fine for half an hour so I restarted and turned on XMP and turned my DRAM frequency up to 3000 MHz. Now it is showing an error " Warning : Hardware failure detected! Test stopped" every half an hour after I run the test. What is going on? What should I do? Is anything damaged until this point? I turned on the stability test from AIDA64 for only CPU, FPU and cache and ran the same test. I got the error again so I'm pretty sure its the CPU, not the memory. CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($306.25 @ Vuugo) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($187.95 @ Vuugo) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($138.98 @ DirectCanada) Storage: ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.98 @ DirectCanada) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.85 @ Vuugo) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB G1 Gaming Video Card ($365.98 @ NCIX) Case: Thermaltake View 27 ATX Mid Tower Case ($81.99 @ NCIX) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ NCIX) Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($33.98 @ DirectCanada) Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($33.98 @ DirectCanada)

Hello all ! Around a year and a half ago, i upgraded my system from gtx 550 ti , to 970 g1 , and added Samsung 850 evo. Everything was fine for a year, except couple of crashes hear and there, and sometimes didn't boot and made 3 short beeps, i mostly solved this by removing one ram stick and reinserting. One day when i played my computer crashed, no blue screen, I tried to boot him up, and got short quick beeps when trying to boot. I was like , OK this has happened before so I got one ram stick out, and now the computer booted, was stuck on bios , and beeping every 30 seconds. I tried to unplug Hard drive , optical drive reader , every external phariperal and still same error- stuck on bios with long beeps every 30 seconds. I tried to boot without the GPU , which the computer did , and I was presented with this screen( I was using the onboard graphics), .I waited till it finished, and the computer booted up normally.When I tried to insert the graphics card the computer doesn't want to bot and I'm getting 1 long beep , and 3 short ones. I sent the card to RMA (stupidly i know), and they returned it to me as the gpu was fine.My friend then tested the card on his system and it worked fine. When i got the card, i inserted it into the pc, booted fine , had a very long bios screen 1-2 minutes, then windows loaded fine.I Fixed this problem by updating my bios version (F5 -> F12), but now when i try to play a game, my computer just reboot after 20 min or so (depends on the game). When im not doing anything that requires high gpu usage the computer is stable. I wanted to test my machine to eliminate other problems, so i used a stress test that consisted of Furmark, and prime95, while recording sensors with hwinfo. My computer rebooted after around 9 minutes. I also did only prime95 for 2 hours, and my computer was fine, cpu peaked at 75c, but average was 65 c, so temperatures are not a problem. Even in my games, and in the benchmark my gpu would work fine, and i got good frame rate. I attached the stress test log below, and here are my full computer specs : http://speccy.piriform.com/results/d027LREWndsbtpYgHyEv7iT I'm using Antec 500w 80+ bronze, dont know the exacts model, but here is an image with some data (This might be very useful - it states all the power info): To summarize: Computer crashing during gpu load(Games , benchmarks ) Cpu temperatures are fine(Gpu under full load while i was running the prime95 and furmark test was @ 80) Computer stable when not doing anything gpu related Gpu is 100% working I speculate the cause of the problem im my psu - its not giving enough power, but i want to be sure, and if so, what psu should i buy for my system ? Thanks in advanced. FullStressTest.CSV

Hello all ! Around a year and a half ago, i upgraded my system from gtx 550 ti , to 970 g1 , and added Samsung 850 evo. Everything was fine for a year, except couple of crashes hear and there, and sometimes didn't boot and made 3 short beeps, i mostly solved this by removing one ram stick and reinserting. One day when i played my computer crashed, no blue screen, I tried to boot him up, and got short quick beeps when trying to boot. I was like , OK this has happened before so I got one ram stick out, and now the computer booted, was stuck on bios , and beeping every 30 seconds. I tried to unplug Hard drive , optical drive reader , every external phariperal and still same error- stuck on bios with long beeps every 30 seconds. I tried to boot without the GPU , which the computer did , and I was presented with this screen( I was using the onboard graphics), .I waited till it finished, and the computer booted up normally.When I tried to insert the graphics card the computer doesn't want to bot and I'm getting 1 long beep , and 3 short ones. I sent the card to RMA (stupidly i know), and they returned it to me as the gpu was fine.My friend then tested the card on his system and it worked fine. When i got the card, i inserted it into the pc, booted fine , had a very long bios screen 1-2 minutes, then windows loaded fine.I Fixed this problem by updating my bios version (F5 -> F12), but now when i try to play a game, my computer just reboot after 20 min or so (depends on the game). When im not doing anything that requires high gpu usage the computer is stable. I wanted to test my machine to eliminate other problems, so i used a stress test that consisted of Furmark, and prime95, while recording sensors with hwinfo. My computer rebooted after around 9 minutes. I also did only prime95 for 2 hours, and my computer was fine, cpu peaked at 75c, but average was 65 c, so temperatures are not a problem. Even in my games, and in the benchmark my gpu would work fine, and i got good frame rate. I attached the stress test log below, and here are my full computer specs : http://speccy.piriform.com/results/d027LREWndsbtpYgHyEv7iT I'm using Antec 500w 80+ bronze, dont know the exacts model, but here is an image with some data (This might be very useful - it states all the power info): I speculate the cause of the problem im my psu - its not giving enough power, but i want to be sure, and if so, what psu should i buy for my system ? Thanks in advanced. FullStressTest.CSV

I'm reaching a temp I don't want to go beyond and thankfully I havent blue screened at 100% load yet and want to keep testing stability. How long should I stress test my rig to insure that it is stable after overclocking?

Can I run Aida 64 stress test overnight? Will it damage my hardware while I sleep? Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3n3ZNN

CPU: i7 4790K Cooler: Dark Rock Pro 3 I used the cooler when I first got this PC. Needed to RMA it but took me months to do so due to one reason or another. In the meantime I used the Intel Stock Cooler. Temps would often go OVER 90 degrees when under load from games when I installed the stock cooler. RMA'd cooler and got a new one. I re-applied it a couple weeks ago and was stress testing it with AIDA64 and Intel Extreme Tuning utility. I even went as far as doing the FPU test all by itself. CPU temps would go up to 85 degrees celcius. Could this have damaged the CPU? I suspect damage because when I removed the cooler to re-apply the paste (I was shocked my temps were going over 80 degrees when I had such a good cooler), there were some kind of dark coloured marks on the CPU. I could remove them with my finger but I didn't know what they were. Almost looked like burn marks. Also, there was some kind of thin layer of liquid between the CPU and cooler metal surfaces, which on first glance looked like condensation. But it was weird. The cooler and CPU had an EXTREMELY tight seal so I don't see how moisture from the outside could have gotten in. It's worth noting at this point the thermal paste covered maybe less than half of the surface area of the CPU. So I suspect whether heat directly transferring between the metals of the cooler and CPU could have caused some permanent damage and the burn marks to the metal surfaces? I'm less concerned about high temps inside the CPU because while it was hot, it was within limits. I'm more concerned about the surface of the metals. That water-like substance around the thermal paste had trails connecting it to where the thermal paste was. Moreover, the paste looked kind of like it was burnt? What I mean by that is it looked like it had hardened, hence my thinking it had been burnt. Could this be as a result of faulty thermal paste? I purchased this paste in January 2016. It's the HT-H1 by Noctua

Source: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3159716/4790k-aida64-cpu-fpu-test-showing-100-degrees.html Thoughts? I have an i7 4790K (not overclocked) and was looking forward to stress testing it with Prime95 overnight or for a day to check if it's unstable or not. I have stressted my CPU with AIDA64 running just the FPU test. The temps hover around 85 degrees celcius on a Dark Rock Pro 3. 1) Is that good or bad or bad but normal? 2) The only other problem I think I've experienced is when I run a GPU stress test on that same screen by itself, the CPU clock graphs sometimes dip ALL the way down for a quick moment and then go back up. Why is this? Is this something to worry about? Someone else has experienced this: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3123898/aida64-cpu-stress-test-question.html

Clocked my 6700K to 4.6GHz@1.225V and it passed every single stress and benchmarking test that i throw at it EXCEPT for XTU. IBT, Very High@30 loops Realbench Cinebench AIDA64 Stress Test@30 minutes Memtest x264 Stability Test (from overclock.net) Is this a cause for concern? Do i need to tweak it more to pass XTU? I read somewhere that XTU Benchmark Test is based on the Prime95 platform, so I'm not sure just how crucial passing the benchmark is