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what exactly do you want to test?

prime95 and furmark both put an unrealistic load on your hardware, by which they also tend to be the first signs of issue when your OC is potentially a bit "too on edge".

 

for a somewhat real world cpu load i personally prefer 7-zip's built in benchmarking tool for CPU, and heaven benchmark for the GPU side.

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I don't really wanna get professional stress testing software (at least, not right now) so what is the best free software for basic CPU/GPU tests?

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I like furmark, you can test both the cpu and GPU for it. I think people generally also use Unigine Heaven to test if overclocks are stable. 

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many benchmark apps are mostly free, 3dmark, furmark, unigine, cinemabench etc.

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9 minutes ago, Sorenson said:

I like furmark, you can test both the cpu and GPU for it. I think people generally also use Unigine Heaven to test if overclocks are stable. 

Never used furrmark.

I've used all of Unigine's benchmarks/stress tests. I use the benchmarks as a baseline test for all the systems and configs I have/make. 

Superposition has a benchmark and stress test mode, while all the others just keep looping until you close them.

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what exactly do you want to test?

prime95 and furmark both put an unrealistic load on your hardware, by which they also tend to be the first signs of issue when your OC is potentially a bit "too on edge".

 

for a somewhat real world cpu load i personally prefer 7-zip's built in benchmarking tool for CPU, and heaven benchmark for the GPU side.

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Prime95 for CPU overclock testing.

 

For GPU, Heaven Benchmark is great, but since my GPU is an Asus GTX 1070, I also stress-tested its OC with Asus GPU Tweak's inbuilt Furmark stress test. 

 

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OCCT is one of the better ones. Youtubers who use it: Jayz2Cents, OC3D. For real world stressing, Asus RealBench.

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