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I have ran y cruncher through Benchmate, ran a few TM5 profiles and 24 hours or about 125000% in Karhu. I want to make sure I am 100% stable before seeing if 8200 is possible or tighter timings is possible. what other test target specifically the RAM or is my testing I have already completed good enough?

Hi everyone, First time building a computer that I disassembled from a friend (which was working fine) and currently facing an issue with my CPU instantly throttling whenever I run a stress test. My idle temperature is around 25 degrees, and when I run Prime95 with "small FFTs" config the temperature instantly jumps to around 90-100deg and the CPU thermal throttles. Here are the relevant WHinfo graphs (with complete CSV file attached): My specs are: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K CPU cooler: DARK ROCK 4 with arctic MX4 thermal paste Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z97-D3H-CF, F9 Bios (latest) RAM: 32GB (8gb*4) GSkill F3-2133C10-8GSR, running @ 2133 MHz xmp profile 1 PSU: Thermaltake smart 700W GPU: ASUS RTX 2070 SUPER EVO OC SSD: 256GB apotop ssd s3c HDD: 2TB Toshiba DT01ACA200 OS: Windows 10 x64 22H2 19045.2546 I have used my old cooler master MASTERGEL thermal paste and reapplied it twice and bought new MX-4 and reapplied it again in a X pattern - and the issue persisted with all installations. Here is a picture of the cooler installation: What is the cause of the issue? How can I further diagnose it? Thanks in advance for any help!

My setup: Intel i7 t930k Asus X99 deluxe motherboard Corsair vengence LPX 4x4GB 2800MHz DDR4 kit I'm new to oc, all I did was set XMP to 2.8GHz and run realbench for 8 hours. It stopped at 682m with instability detected. Should I up the system agent voltage? I forgot the RAM timings, let me know if it is needed. For some reason the 2.8GHz kit also has 3GHz XMP profile, tried that and realbench BSOD within 30m.

I've been overclocking my new 7700K and I've been using a few programs to test stability and I've been wondering which is the most valid. Realbench seems to have Luxmark crashes. An apparently common problem with Nvidia drivers. This happens when overclocked or stock. Aida64 runs with no problems for 2 hours but it's a trial version. I only got a couple of days left before it locks me out. Intel Extreme Tuning Utility seems very gentle on the CPU and I wonder how reliable are the results. Prime 95... not even touching it, specially the new versions. I don't need another heater in the room. Any of you guys know any good, reliable and free stress tests I can use?

I just picked up a build today and I have been having some issues with it. When I run prime 95, I get an instant black screen. My system does not shut down or blue screen, it just turns black. I have to flip the switch on the PSU to get the system to boot again. EDIT: It is the ram. When i run the RAM at its advertised speed of 3000 MHz the system black screens. When i drop it down to 2133 the system works with no issue. Why is this? the motherboard suposedly can support it. Also, my CPU's turbo boost function does not work properly. The max I get is 4Ghz at about 1.168 V. I thought the 6700k was suppose to have a 4.2 GHz turbo boost. What are your suggestions? EDIT2: I ran memtest and it came back with 142 errors. CPU: I7-6700k Mobo: MSI Z170A M5 RAM: corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8) DDR4 3000 GPU: Onboard as my GFX card was DOA.

I posted a question yesterday that's very simular to this, in which i was trying to get to 3.9 ghz on my Ryzen 1700. In the end i thought i'd probaly just lost the silicon lottery. So, therefore i've spent most of today trying to get a stable 3.8 ghz overlock, using ASUS's RealBench stress test with the duration at 15 minutes and the memory set at up to 16gb (thats how much ram is in my system). I wasn't able to past the RealBench test at 3.8 ghz. I've tried setting the voltage from 1.3 - 1.45 volts, setting the Load Line Calibration from Auto to Level 1 all the way through to Level 5, and setting my G-Skill Flare-X 16gb duel kit from D.O.C.P 3200 to 2400 default. I've also tried many other little settings here and there, (I can't remember them all). Yet I still can't pass the 15 minute RealBench stress test, at 16gb memory setting without crashing. Now realising that 3.8 ghz isn't possible to pass on RealBench, I then dialed the core clock down to 3.7 ghz with a reasonable voltage at 1.3 volts. And yet once again, even at 3.7ghz I cannot pass that RealBench stress test (same settings as previously) Even though this is my first time overclocking this really doesn't seem right to me, it seems like i've lost the silicon lottery x 100. But I won't give up yet. I will also provide some more information and things I tried, that may help to diagnose the issue: Motherboard: ASUS Prime X370-Pro Ram: GSkill FLare-X 3200mhz 16gb duel kit. PSU: Corsair RM850 (850watts) GPU: Geforce GTX 670 (i plan to upgrade this very soon) Latest Bios version (currently version 0807 from a usb flash drive) Memtest86 in which I passed which no errors. Disabled the 3200 D.O.C.P profile so the ram runs at the default 2400mhz speed. I did the overlocking in the BIOS and i adjusted the voltage with a + offset, rather than manual. As manual caused the cpu to clock to 1.5 ghz no matter what. ( I corrected that issue by simply using offset instead) I'm using the stock AMD Wraith Spire Cooler, which i plan to upgrade to a Noctua air cooler soon. (I'm not sure if a better cooler would get me stable at 3.7, 3.8 or 3.9ghz And the guide I used to overlock was this video on Youtube from ASUS themselves, i also read discussions on other forums. What do you guys think? Is this really bad luck, or am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Hey, I recently bought an i9 7900x and when i was stress testing it with aida 64 stock I was hitting 80 degrees on the package. This was worrying to me as I bought a very expensive watercooling rig consisting of an: Alphacool Monsta XT45 540MM Radiator EK Supremacy EVO EK D5 Pump Noctua NF-A14 3000 PWM Fans Looking at other peoples temperatures, I knew this was not normal and I am just looking for any suggestions as to what it might be because I honestly have no idea.

I'm pretty new to overclocking so I watched JayzTwoCents' video on how to overclock the FX-8350 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk&t=707s). Now I know I don't have the exact same motherboard as him, but I followed the directions he laid out more or less pretty faithfully. I first overclocked my CPU in the BIOS settings to 4.5 GHz I think. When it came to the stress-testing part, he said to download Prime95 to test the CPU. So I did the stress-test and about 30 seconds in, the PC froze up. I went back into the settings, reduced the clock speed to 4.35 GHz and tried the same stress-test again. It froze my computer again still but, interestingly, it ran for longer before it froze than it did when I set the speed to 4.5. So, I tried yet again at lower speeds and saw the same pattern of how long the PC ran during stress-testing before it froze vs. how fast the CPU was. I concluded that the motherboard I have is just not very good at overclocking because I ran the stress-test with all settings factory default in BIOS and it had no problems whatsoever. I just want to know if maybe anyone knows why this was happening, what was the culprit and should I think about an upgrade if I want to continue overclocking?

I have an i5-4690k and an MSI Z97s SLI Krait Edition motherboard (updated to the latest BIOS, of course). My RAM is 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP 1600 (set to 1333 MHz per the instructions on the OC guide by @BigDay). I have successfully stress tested my CPU at a 4.6 GHz overclock without touching the cache ratio or anything else, and it was stable. I am following the haswell and haswell-refresh guide by @BigDay). When I attempt to do anything to the CPU Cache ratio, the system has instability. I have gone as high as 1.4v for Vring and 2.02v for VRIN wth a cache ratio of 36, and still no cigar (I get the BSOD). It seems that if I even try to touch the CPU cache ratio, the system is unstable. Otherwise it is fine. The problem is that the core ratio is 46 and the cache ratio is 35 (that's the most stable core overclock and cache ratio I found). I know there is supposed to be a 1:1 (or close to it) ratio, but currently my system is nowhere close. What can I do? Thoughts?

So, my overclock is stable and my temps are good in every other test, but when I run the newest version of prime95 with the blend test, I'm seeing temperatures as high as 97 degrees! About 10 degrees higher than everything else. I followed Der8auer's 9th gen overclocking guide when I started my overclocking where he said to use an older version of prime95 and to use a custom test with a min of 12 and a max of 12. It does fine in that test. I wanted to test my memory overclock with blend though and it only took like half an hour to see these crazy temps. If I do the same test in the version Der8auer suggests, it always fails at a certain point even when I remove the memory overclock and I can see that it can't even detect what CPU I have. So, this has to come down to the reason why Der8auer suggested doing this specific test instead of anything else which I'm completely lost on other than avoiding having the CPU scale down by the AVX offset in the small FFT's test, but that should mean lower temps not higher ones. It doesn't get this hot in anything else. Not the test Der8auer suggested to do, not Aida64, etc. Just prime95 blend. Should I just not being using prime 95 blend or should I be rolling back my overclock? I'm only at 1.3v on the vcore for god sakes and I have a 360mm aio so it shouldn't be that hot. I mean, it's acting fine everywhere else. I feel like prime95 is just acting crazy with this CPU and is completely inconsistent with the rest of my tests. If you know anything about what's different with 9th gen overclocking, please let me know what I'm missing here. 9700k, asrock z390 taichi, 16gb corsair vengeance RGB pro 3200mhz, corsair ax760, fractal design s36, 500gb samsung 970 evo, etc. This is the guide I'm talking about:

I imagine there are quite a few people that use Prime95 for their CPU stress testing when dialing in their overclocks. I'm also a user, but I can't say I am an expert beyond recognizing when isntability arises. So what I am asking, of you good folks, is to help me learn if there is a log file that can illuminate more than the simple instability it identifies. A log file that can help me diagnose the problem. Furthermore, a particular curiosity of mine is, why is it always the same core that stops working. My experience with Prime95 testing is that it always exhibits the same behavior when instability is uncovered and that is "workers" 5 and 6 (or core #2) stop running. If anyone can help me figure out why that particular core stops then I'd love ya forever.

Is Aida64 still the recommended stress test for cpu (at LTT)? I have a FX8350 and generally I can get things stable while running Aida64 without much issue at lower temps and at higher clocks than some of the other stress tests such as Prim95, OCCT, or IBT. Is it really necessary to stress the CPU that much? Do you guys have any experience with stability when using only Aida64 + (gpu stress test) for stability validation?

What are the best free stress testing applications for windows for a cpu overclock? I know Linus suggests aida 64 and asus realbench, and while realbench is free, aida 64 extreme is $40, the kinda money I don't really wanna spend if I don't have to. I have just bought a 6600k for anyone who's wondering.

I have attached the Heaven Benchmark score for my PC. Non overcloked intel Devil's canyon CPU . I just want to know whether this score is normal or lower for my config... I have attached the score file below Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20160315_2319.html

Hi everyone, what's the best program to use for GPU stress testing? I heard from people saying that Valley and Heaven are not very reliable so what are some good ones out there? Thanks.

I was stress testing my computer when i realized that the radiator on my watercooled system was extruding cool air instead of warm air, even when i was stress testing it with prime 95 and the cpu which is a intel core i7 4790k was heating up to around 70c can anyone help?

Hi I just finished overclocking my cpu and i was wondering what would be a good stability testing software. Linus recommended not to use Aida64 or prime95 if your running your cpu voltages on adaptive mode (which i am) so can anyone recommend a good cpu stability testing software? Thank you I7 4770k (4.6 ghz 1.5 volts) Asus gryphon z87 8gb corsair ram 1600mhz H100i

A few weeks ago arrived my H110 and was again very enthusiastic about overclocking. I managed to get 4.5GHz out of my 3930K (1.36V) and max temps were 85C. I usually stress test the processor with Prime95, but recently I decided to try some of the other software - OCCT an Aida64. I found a lot disturbing things. I used Real Temp GT to check the temperature. When I use Prime 95 to check stability - loop of 24H stable max temps are 85C (CPU usage - 100%) When I use Aida64 to check stability - loop of 12H stable max temps are 74C (CPU usage - 100%) When I use OCCT to check stability - Core 3 stops working in less than 5 min, regardless if I use the Lynpack mode or not... Can someone explain to me what the hell is happening here? A long time ago I remember someone on another forum saying that for Intel processors one should only use Aida64 to test stability, but I wasn't really sold about that until now. PS: All system specs in signature.

So Unigine's new Superposition isn't just a colossally demanding benchmark/stress tester (GTX 1060 Ultra 1080P = 15-20fps). It is also a game itself, from what I can tell, it looks really similar to the Order of 10 puzzles. Anybody gona try solving it? Just curious. https://benchmark.unigine.com/superposition?lang=en