1st Time Builder & Overclocker

[Mike Soda]

Unless the remaining parts arrive late, this weekend I'll be building my 1st PC ever. Although I won't have time to find it's max air overclocks ASAP, I do plan to get the most out of this system in the very near future. I'm not interested in the competitive part of bench-marking so whether or not my results are up-loadable doesn't matter. All I want is 24/7 stability & okay thermals to ensure longevity, something that I've never been able to experience on current PC but that's due to other reasons. What free & safe (malware/bloatware free) CPU, GPU & RAM bench-marking software do y'all recommend? I've used Furmark before but can't remember where I got it from & just doing an initial search brings up loads of results but none appear official enough for me to blindly trust. The last time I tried to run memtest on current PC, I couldn't get the USB download to work so had to create a bootable CD; which can't be done on new build as it lacks an optical drive.

 

New Specs (bold are still shipping):

 

Ryzen 5 1500X (with stock cooler)

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

2 x 8 G.Skill DDR4 3200

Windows 10 Home 64-bit Retail USB

3GB MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X

250GB Samsung 850 EVO

EVGA G2 550W

MasterCase Pro 3

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, Mike Soda said:

Unless the remaining parts arrive late, this weekend I'll be building my 1st PC ever. Although I won't have time to find it's max air overclocks ASAP, I do plan to get the most out of this system in the very near future. I'm not interested in the competitive part of bench-marking so whether or not my results are up-loadable doesn't matter. All I want is 24/7 stability & okay thermals to ensure longevity, something that I've never been able to experience on current PC but that's due to other reasons. What free & safe (malware/bloatware free) CPU, GPU & RAM bench-marking software do y'all recommend? I've used Furmark before but can't remember where I got it from & just doing an initial search brings up loads of results but none appear official enough for me to blindly trust. The last time I tried to run memtest on current PC, I couldn't get the USB download to work so had to create a bootable CD; which can't be done on new build as it lacks an optical drive.

 

New Specs (bold are still shipping):

 

Ryzen 5 1500X (with stock cooler)

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

2 x 8 G.Skill DDR4 3200

Windows 10 Home 64-bit Retail USB

3GB MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X

250GB Samsung 850 EVO

EVGA G2 550W

MasterCase Pro 3

Unigine Heaven and Valley and Firestrike 

[WereCat]

CPU-Z

GPU-Z

Aida64

Unigine Heaven or Unigine Valley or Unigine Superposition

MSI Afterburner

Cinebench R15

[Lord Nicoll]

10 minutes ago, Mike Soda said:

Unless the remaining parts arrive late, this weekend I'll be building my 1st PC ever. Although I won't have time to find it's max air overclocks ASAP, I do plan to get the most out of this system in the very near future. I'm not interested in the competitive part of bench-marking so whether or not my results are up-loadable doesn't matter. All I want is 24/7 stability & okay thermals to ensure longevity, something that I've never been able to experience on current PC but that's due to other reasons. What free & safe (malware/bloatware free) CPU, GPU & RAM bench-marking software do y'all recommend? I've used Furmark before but can't remember where I got it from & just doing an initial search brings up loads of results but none appear official enough for me to blindly trust. The last time I tried to run memtest on current PC, I couldn't get the USB download to work so had to create a bootable CD; which can't be done on new build as it lacks an optical drive.

 

New Specs (bold are still shipping):

 

Ryzen 5 1500X (with stock cooler)

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

2 x 8 G.Skill DDR4 3200

Windows 10 Home 64-bit Retail USB

3GB MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X

250GB Samsung 850 EVO

EVGA G2 550W

MasterCase Pro 3

3D Mark, Cinebench, http://hwbot.org , basically anything there

[Mike Soda]

12 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Unigine Heaven and Valley and Firestrike 

 

5 minutes ago, WereCat said:

CPU-Z

GPU-Z

Aida64

Unigine Heaven or Unigine Valley or Unigine Superposition

MSI Afterburner

Cinebench R15

 

5 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

3D Mark, Cinebench, http://hwbot.org , basically anything there

Thanks but what about RAM, Memtest86 or 86+? Also should I run multiple different CPU & GPU tests or for just stability is one enough?

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Mike Soda said:

 

 

Thanks but what about RAM, Memtest86 or 86+? Also should I run multiple different CPU & GPU tests or for just stability is one enough?

There are a couple of synthetic memory tests that benefit tight timings and high clocks, benchmark your system and submit it to HWbot to see how your system stacks up. 

[knightslugger]

Real bench for CPU testing

 

Unigene Heaven or Valley for GPU testing

 

AMD Ryzen Mater for CPU temp monitoring.

 

MemTest86 for RAM testing (not needed unless you encounter memory related crashes)

[WereCat]

2 minutes ago, Mike Soda said:

 

 

Thanks but what about RAM, Memtest86 or 86+? Also should I run multiple different CPU & GPU tests or for just stability is one enough?

 

Memtest86, but you can also use the Windows diagnostic tool.

 

Just press Win key + R and type in mdsched.exe and hit enter.

[Froody129]

If you're really looking to get the most out of your system you should go for a 6GB 1060 or at least a 4GB 470/570. 1060 3GB just isn't worth it

[Mike Soda]

35 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

There are a couple of synthetic memory tests that benefit tight timings and high clocks, benchmark your system and submit it to HWbot to see how your system stacks up. 

 

34 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

Real bench for CPU testing

 

Unigene Heaven or Valley for GPU testing

 

AMD Ryzen Mater for CPU temp monitoring.

 

MemTest86 for RAM testing (not needed unless you encounter memory related crashes)

 

34 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Memtest86, but you can also use the Windows diagnostic tool.

 

Just press Win key + R and type in mdsched.exe and hit enter.

 

28 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

If you're really looking to get the most out of your system you should go for a 6GB 1060 or at least a 4GB 470/570. 1060 3GB just isn't worth it

Will do thanks all & next gen or 2 from now is when I'll go with a full 60 Nvidia or RX 80 series GPU. So 1160, 1260 or RX 680, 780 whenever those are out years from now.