Recommendations for benchmarking, stress testing, monitoring

[colblitz]

Not too sure if there's a more fitting place for this, but I guess I can remake the thread if so?

Anyways, just finished my build, and was wondering what people generally use/would recommend for benchmarking, stress testing, and monitoring all the things.

 

For stress testing I know about Memtest86 for RAM, but dunno what to use for CPU/GPU. (Or does running benchmarks basically act as a stress test?)

 

For benchmarking, Cinebench is a graphics benchmark? Or is it also a CPU benchmark?

 

For monitoring it seems like there a bunch of things that all sort of do different things - HWMonitor monitors temps, CPU-Z monitors frequencies, Speedfan monitors temps but also lets you control fan speeds? Has anyone used NZXT's CAM software or ASUS's AI Suite 3 thing?

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

Aida64, Prime95 stress test

 

Cinebench, 3DMark, userbenchmark, Heaven Unigene

 

HWMonitor, Core temp and MSI Afterburner

[Teknis]

Stress testing i would go for Prime 95 http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/prime95-download.html

[tarfeef101]

1 minute ago, colblitz said:

Not too sure if there's a more fitting place for this, but I guess I can remake the thread if so?

Anyways, just finished my build, and was wondering what people generally use/would recommend for benchmarking, stress testing, and monitoring all the things.

 

For stress testing I know about Memtest86 for RAM, but dunno what to use for CPU/GPU. (Or does running benchmarks basically act as a stress test?)

 

For benchmarking, Cinebench is a graphics benchmark? Or is it also a CPU benchmark?

 

For monitoring it seems like there a bunch of things that all sort of do different things - HWMonitor monitors temps, CPU-Z monitors frequencies, Speedfan monitors temps but also lets you control fan speeds? Has anyone used NZXT's CAM software or ASUS's AI Suite 3 thing?

 

Thanks!

Cinebench is a CPU benchmark. 3DMark has good GPU benchmarks.

 

For GPU benchmarking AND stress testing, you can use Unigine Heaven or Unigine Valley, which I personally like quite a bit.

CPU and GPU stressing can also be done with MSI Kombustor.

Other CPU stressers include Aida64, Prime95, heavyload, etc.
 

For monitoring, I like MSI afterburner. Does everything well, and I also like RealTemp for my CPU so I can see individual core temps.

 

I don't like AI Suite for monitoring, as it is kinda laggy under stress.

[doomsriker]

I use 3D mark to benchmark my stuff. It offers different tests for a wide range of hardwre tiers, and is available on steam. Speaking of steam, the steam VR test is a free and fun benchmark to run (no VR headset needed).

[Teknis]

Nzxt cam is a good software for allround monitoring i have it downloaded right now because i have trouble with the new amd update ;( downside is that you need an acount

[Joe007destroyer]

Aida 64, Cinebench, 3D mark Firestrike are the most common