Benchmarking/Temps | What to Use

[Lavish]

I have built and owned my pc for quite some time now and I have never run one benchmark, I was too lazy after I built it but now my nzxt h440 logo lights have gone out so I figured I could do some maintenance after I sort that out. What services should I use, can anyone give me a list? Also, my cpu temps are usually around 48-50*c at idle.. Is that normal.

[arronleeds]

I have built and owned my pc for quite some time now and I have never run one benchmark, I was too lazy after I built it but now my nzxt h440 logo lights have gone out so I figured I could do some maintenance after I sort that out. What services should I use, can anyone give me a list? Also, my cpu temps are usually around 48-50*c at idle.. Is that normal.

are you using the stock cooler?

 

stock cooler should still give it the mid 30s to low 40s, they seem a bit too high.

 

but to bench my cpu i use prime95 26.6, this is the one gives like 10c less than the newer versions.

[Thony]

To monitor temps i use: CPUID HW Monitor, MSI Afterbuner and windows 7 widget.

For benchmarking when i built my pc i used Cinebench R15, UNIGINE heaven and 3DMark Firestrike.

These are the most popular and u can compare your results with forum members or just google images

50C at idle is rather high. No idea what specs u got.

[Br3tt96]

Aida 64 is a better cpu stress tester than prime 95.

[Lavish]

To monitor temps i use: CPUID HW Monitor, MSI Afterbuner and windows 7 widget.

For benchmarking when i built my pc i used Cinebench R15, UNIGINE heaven and 3DMark Firestrike.

These are the most popular and u can compare your results with forum members or just google images

50C at idle is rather high. No idea what specs u got.

specs in sig.

[typographie]

specs in sig.

 

Any overclock? It sure wouldn't hurt to replace that stock cooler.

 

50*C at idle isn't a problem in itself, but it does suggest that your load/stress test temperatures could be a bit higher than is healthy.

 

Personally I use AIDA64 for CPU stress testing and either MSI Kombustor or Unigine Heaven for GPU stress testing, depending on how much of a load I want to test. I use MSI Afterburner for temperatures for both, though RealTemp and GPU-Z can be more convenient for that sometimes.

 

Just a warning: don't use Prime95 with a Haswell CPU unless you have the voltage manually set. I've heard that if you have voltage set to 'Auto' P95 can over-volt the CPU.