stress test programs

[RichieXtheXboss]

what programs do I need to test my pc before and after overclocking cpu.

I need things to monitor temps and check the performance before and after

 

[shadowbyte]

to stress- Prime95

to monitor- CPUID/CoreTemp

to benchmark- cinebench

[Skiiwee29]

8 minutes ago, RichieXtheXboss said:

what programs do I need to test my pc before and after overclocking cpu.

I need things to monitor temps and check the performance before and after

 

 

4 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

to stress- Prime95

to monitor- CPUID/CoreTemp

to benchmark- cinebench

Dont use Prime 95, very unrealistic. Use Aida64 for CPU. Aida64 has a built in reading for the Temps so you can use that for it. CPU benchmarks are Cinebench as Shadowbyte has said

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, legacy99 said:

Dont use Prime 95, very unrealistic. Use Aida64 for CPU.

Aida64 is paid. Prime95 is free.

I've used Prime95 for many a CPU overclock, and it works wonderfully.

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

Aida64 is paid. Prime95 is free.

I've used Prime95 for many a CPU overclock, and it works wonderfully.

Aida64 also has a trail version you can use for fine tuning. Another good one is the Intel Burn Test. Unsure if this works with AMD CPU's though. 

[shadowbyte]

1 minute ago, legacy99 said:

Aida64 also has a trail version you can use for fine tuning. Another good one is the Intel Burn Test. Unsure if this works with AMD CPU's though. 

i had no idea there was a free trial

thanks for letting me know

In that case OP, go for Aida

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, legacy99 said:

Aida64 also has a trail version you can use for fine tuning. Another good one is the Intel Burn Test. Unsure if this works with AMD CPU's though. 

p95 is worst case scenario so i think it would ensure you get a stable OC 

[EarthboundHero]

If you have a Haswell CPU don't use Prime95. Anything else is find with P95, but I recommend Intel XTU over anything else.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, EarthboundHero said:

If you have a Haswell CPU don't use Prime95. Anything else is find with P95, but I recommend Intel XTU over anything else.

wait why not p95 for haswell?

[Cyracus]

IBT/linpack is great, realbench works too. As previously said P95 is crazy, just forget about it

[EarthboundHero]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

wait why not p95 for haswell?

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/751197-Prime-95-v28-5-Haswell-CPU-s-and-you-is-it-bad-for-the-CPU-s-health

I should say some versions. I think only the past year are bad.

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

 

Dont use Prime 95, very unrealistic. Use Aida64 for CPU. Aida64 has a built in reading for the Temps so you can use that for it. CPU benchmarks are Cinebench as Shadowbyte has said

Aida needs a licence to use

 

Another great tool is IntelBurnTest which uses LinPack that generates very good periodic load with high and low utilization spikes and crushes unstable overclocks very easily, it also incorporates benchmarking tool and shows you floating point operation throughput of you CPU which is an industry standart for computer components.

Intel XTU (Extreme Tuning Utility) - allows you to do all things in the same window - overclock, test for stability, monitor temperatures and run benchmarks

Cinebench is a great benchmarking tool, if you want options there's also 3DMark Firestrike which runs CPU intensive loads that you'll find in games and monitors temperatures

ASUS RealBench is another great benchmarking and stress testing tool which uses Handbrake to generate a load that is found when rendering videos for example and it also monitors temperature

 

[DXMember]

2 minutes ago, EarthboundHero said:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/751197-Prime-95-v28-5-Haswell-CPU-s-and-you-is-it-bad-for-the-CPU-s-health

I should say some versions. I think only the past year are bad.

they're not bad, people just don't know how to overclock properly

[porina]

I run Prime95 like loads on my systems 24/7 as routine, when the weather isn't too hot anyway. So I'm possibly biased in that I think Prime95 is a good starting point for testing stability, but it isn't the only test. In short, it will stress the FPU (FMA instructions where available on Haswell and later), cache, and ram. It doesn't stress other parts of the CPU much. It does run hotter than most, so it can be used as a worst case heat indicator. There are a lot of myths and misunderstanding about Prime95. It was written for and does a real task, and is continually optimised for maximising performance in doing that. I loved it when Haswell came out and it got supported as it gave about 50% IPC boost over Sandy Bridge. Using older versions is generally not helpful unless you want to target the older (much slower) instructions. To me the drawback about using Prime95 as a stress test is that it doesn't test everything. I think I saw an early Skylake reviewer using it to check their overclock, and they found a certain video encoding task would actually fail before Prime95 did. So it should be used as one tool.

 

IBT the last time I looked at it hadn't been updated in a while, and would be roughly comparable in stress to older versions of Prime95.

 

I've dabbled with Asus RealBench a bit too, but I'm not sure about it. It is free at least.

[RichieXtheXboss]

12 hours ago, DXMember said:

Aida needs a licence to use

 

Another great tool is IntelBurnTest which uses LinPack that generates very good periodic load with high and low utilization spikes and crushes unstable overclocks very easily, it also incorporates benchmarking tool and shows you floating point operation throughput of you CPU which is an industry standart for computer components.

Intel XTU (Extreme Tuning Utility) - allows you to do all things in the same window - overclock, test for stability, monitor temperatures and run benchmarks

Cinebench is a great benchmarking tool, if you want options there's also 3DMark Firestrike which runs CPU intensive loads that you'll find in games and monitors temperatures

ASUS RealBench is another great benchmarking and stress testing tool which uses Handbrake to generate a load that is found when rendering videos for example and it also monitors temperature

 

I can't figure out how to download 3dmark firestrike. So where can I get it from 

 

[Omon_Ra]

3 minutes ago, RichieXtheXboss said:

I can't figure out how to download 3dmark firestrike. So where can I get it from 

 

You can get a 3DMark demo through the Steam store. I've used the trial Aida64 (yes, there is a free trial) and I do like that. Cinebench is good for benchmarking more than stress testing. I did try Asus's RealBench and I liked it. Good for stress testing and benchmarking, but I do need to run HWinfo so I can monitor temps and stuff.

[DXMember]

15 minutes ago, RichieXtheXboss said:

I can't figure out how to download 3dmark firestrike. So where can I get it from 

 

you can get it from http://3dmark.com or you can search for 3DMark Demo on Steam

[DXMember]

11 minutes ago, Omon_Ra said:

You can get a 3DMark demo through the Steam store. I've used the trial Aida64 (yes, there is a free trial) and I do like that. Cinebench is good for benchmarking more than stress testing. I did try Asus's RealBench and I liked it. Good for stress testing and benchmarking, but I do need to run HWinfo so I can monitor temps and stuff.

realbench monitors the temps for you, so does 3DMark, nobody said cineBENCH was a stress test

[Omon_Ra]

3 minutes ago, DXMember said:

realbench monitors the temps for you, so does 3DMark, nobody said cineBENCH was a stress test

Yeah, I just like being able to check the min/max/average for a bunch of other metrics aside from temp as well. And not all temperature reporting is accurate, so it's nice having at least two to make sure any major changes in temperature are actual changes and not a software glitch. AIDA64 does a lot more logging/tracking of that stuff in the program versus RealBench/3Dmark, so I like it for that; but I also am not routinely overclocking and running stress tests so I can't really justify buying it. And I was just clarifying Cinebench for the OP, since it seems like they're pretty new to this thing.