Best stress testing program

[Theo]

Good morning ( depending on your region, results may vary )

I just got my 4770k and a Z87 Deluxe and running at 4.2GHz at 1.15V ( only have an H80 so i dont want to push it too much ) 

And was wondering which is the best stress testing program? I have prime 95 and OCCT but no idea which one to run for a day or so to test the stability.

Which one do you guys recommend?

[Scia]

Intel Burn Test for a quick test if you want to clock further, Prime 95 for 24h to test 24/7 stability. ^^

OCCT works aswell.

[virusal19]

As "Scia" said, use Intel Burn Test for quick tests and Prime 95 for long tests. 

[OneGun]

Exactly what they said.. I use Intel burn test on maximum first. And if it passes that then P95.I also found that I can pass them both and play Bf3 and freeze.. So after you run test play your favorite game for awhile..

[Theo]

Thank you for the replies!

[d33g33]

Linus has mentioned AIDA64 a couple of times as well,I may not have it configured right but it certainly doesn't seem to stress my CPU as hard (temp measurement) as the others. For me I like OCCT, Intel Burn Test makes my CPU the hottest... if you really want to stress the processor for stability.

 

DeeG

[.Jay]

Exactly what they said.. I use Intel burn test on maximum first. And if it passes that then P95.I also found that I can pass them both and play Bf3 and freeze.. So after you run test play your favorite game for awhile..

[FireFox]

Linus has mentioned AIDA64 a couple of times as well,I may not have it configured right but it certainly doesn't seem to stress my CPU as hard (temp measurement) as the others. For me I like OCCT, Intel Burn Test makes my CPU the hottest... if you really want to stress the processor for stability.

 

DeeG

 

AIDA64 is the one I use and seems to work fine, I have been advised against IBT because it stresses the chip too much or some shit, wasn't really paying much attention lol

[SuperPug]

Intel and Asus suggest you use AIDA64 for Haswell stress testing.

Asus: ''Unvalidated stress tests are not advised ( such as Prime 95 or LinX or OCCT, Intel Burn Test or other comparable applications ). For high grade CPU/IMC and System Bus testing Aida64 is recommended along with general applications usage like PC Mark 7. Aida has an advantage as it is a stability test and has been designed for the Haswell architecture and test specific functions like AES, AVX and other instruction sets that prime and like synthetics do not touch. As such not only does it load the CPU 100% but will also test other parts of CPU not used under applications like Prime95. Other applications to consider are SiSoft 2013 or Passmark BurnIn. Additionally this generation has a more specialized point of consideration for synthetic stress tests. When using an adaptive vid voltage control will be automatically controlled by the iVR when a complex concurrent AVX load is initialized from Applications like Prime95 or Aida Or LinX more voltage will be supplied than has been defined/requested.'' -source hardocp.com

->make sure to use manual cpu voltage and not adaptive mode while stress testing - especially with prime95 since this will promt the cpu to heavily increase voltage and run extremely hot

[FireFox]

Intel and Asus suggest you use AIDA64 for Haswell stress testing.

Asus: ''Unvalidated stress tests are not advised ( such as Prime 95 or LinX or OCCT, Intel Burn Test or other comparable applications ). For high grade CPU/IMC and System Bus testing Aida64 is recommended along with general applications usage like PC Mark 7. Aida has an advantage as it is a stability test and has been designed for the Haswell architecture and test specific functions like AES, AVX and other instruction sets that prime and like synthetics do not touch. As such not only does it load the CPU 100% but will also test other parts of CPU not used under applications like Prime95. Other applications to consider are SiSoft 2013 or Passmark BurnIn. Additionally this generation has a more specialized point of consideration for synthetic stress tests. When using an adaptive vid voltage control will be automatically controlled by the iVR when a complex concurrent AVX load is initialized from Applications like Prime95 or Aida Or LinX more voltage will be supplied than has been defined/requested.'' -source hardocp.com

->make sure to use manual cpu voltage and not adaptive mode while stress testing - especially with prime95 since this will promt the cpu to heavily increase voltage and run extremely hot

 

Basically use AIDA 64 then, I thought there was a reason to why they advised against it.

[ProKoN]

for stress testing haswell i would suggest using the intel extreme tuning utility.

 

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-boards-software-extreme-tuning-utility.html

[IdeaStormer]

Real Stress Testing:

 

http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/

 

You can make a boot CD/USB Stick so no messing with your drives, unless you want to stress those?