Which Stress Testing Software

[Alltheshots]

What software do you use to stress test your systems? 

 

I've run the timespy benchmark to quickly check CPU temps and they never got above 66C, the GPU average temp was 61C. It's not a long test so I ran the timespy stress test and CPU temps never got over 43C with GPU average 77C.

 

Should I be using something else/better for stressing the system?

 

[TheBean]

prime95 (powervirus CPU test), cinebench (high load CPU), furmark(powervirus GPU), games I actually play (normal GPU load)

Edited July 17, 2020 by Saksham

[Mateyyy]

Prime95, Unigine Heaven, Linpack, Memtest - for stability testing

3DMark, Cinebench, Aida64 - for performance testing

 

Could've missed some, this is just off the top of my head

[Alltheshots]

7 minutes ago, Saksham said:

prime95 (powervirus CPU test), cinebench (high load CPU), furmark(powervirus GPU), games I actually play (normal GPU load)

 

6 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Prime95, Unigine Heaven, Linpack, Memtest - for stability testing

3DMark, Cinebench, Aida64 - for performance testing

Thanks for the quick replies

 

I must have had a brain fart as I've heard of most of these but never thought about them. I actually have cinebench right there on my desktop *slaps forehead* 

 

I'll download the others and hope all goes well.

[5x5]

19 minutes ago, Alltheshots said:

What software do you use to stress test your systems? 

 

I've run the timespy benchmark to quickly check CPU temps and they never got above 66C, the GPU average temp was 61C. It's not a long test so I ran the timespy stress test and CPU temps never got over 43C with GPU average 77C.

 

Should I be using something else/better for stressing the system?

 

OCCT 6.10 - it has built in CPU, GPU, Cache and VRAM testing with auto error checking

[kelvinhall05]

stress

[RTX 3090]

AIDIA64, prime 95, Cinebench, blender

[gloop]

Karhu stress test if you manually overclock your RAM - paid but worth it. 

[Alltheshots]

40 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

OCCT 6.10 - it has built in CPU, GPU, Cache and VRAM testing with auto error checking

How long would be considered a good amount of time to run OCCT?

[Alltheshots]

21 minutes ago, gloop said:

Karhu stress test if you manually overclock your RAM - paid but worth it. 

Thanks, I'll keep this one in mind for when I start to dabble in overclocking. At the moment though I just want to be sure I've built a solid base.

[5x5]

18 minutes ago, Alltheshots said:

How long would be considered a good amount of time to run OCCT?

Depends on what you're testing

[ZeroStressLevel]

Prime95/OCCT (Small and Large FFT w/AVX ON) - CPUs
TestMem5/Memtest - RAM
Time Spy and Firestrike - GPUs

[Alltheshots]

1 hour ago, 5x5 said:

Depends on what you're testing

I just ran the occt test for cpu for 45mins. Told me I had 146 errors but my temp seemed to stick around 70C. 

 

I'll go and read up on the program and try to figure out what I should be doing. Thanks

[TetraSky]

For actual stress testing each parts to diagnose them right after assembly : 

Prime95 small FFT for the CPU.

Prime95 Blend for quick and dirty RAM test. (Could just run Blend instead of Small FFT, but that wouldn't tell me if it's the RAM or the CPU/Overclock that's bad)

Memtest, if any issues prop up during Prime95's blend test

GPUtest for the GPU. (It's basically a standalone furmark)

I also use OCCT, but it's not my first go to, even though it technically replace all of the above.

 

As for benchmarking/stress, I use Unigine, 3DMark, Cinebench, play an actual game. etc.

[5x5]

1 hour ago, Alltheshots said:

I just ran the occt test for cpu for 45mins. Told me I had 146 errors but my temp seemed to stick around 70C. 

 

I'll go and read up on the program and try to figure out what I should be doing. Thanks

Unstable overclock then. Any errors in OCCT means the OC is not 100% stable and may crash at any poin in time.

[Alltheshots]

1 hour ago, 5x5 said:

Unstable overclock then. Any errors in OCCT means the OC is not 100% stable and may crash at any poin in time.

I've not overclocked anything yet 

[JESUS IS LORD]

i use 3 .. Cinebench is a good quick indicator if your checking overclocking stability ... if you can run 3 back to back runs its probably good enough ... then i will run Aida 64 for 30 min or so once Cinebench has passed ... and then for GPU 3d Mark is where its at !!! Using Msi Afterburner to dial in your overclock

[ZeroStressLevel]

6 hours ago, JESUS IS LORD said:

i use 3 .. Cinebench is a good quick indicator if your checking overclocking stability ... if you can run 3 back to back runs its probably good enough ... then i will run Aida 64 for 30 min or so once Cinebench has passed ... and then for GPU 3d Mark is where its at !!! Using Msi Afterburner to dial in your overclock

Cinebench is not a good stability test. It's not even that heavy. Otherwise I would consider 4.45ghz on my 3600 "stable" even though Prime95 small ffts would say otherwise.