Reliable Stress Testing Software?

[UnaverageVague]

What is the most reliable stress testing software to use for a test of stability for a overclock? Cause alot of people are saying AIDA64 can pretty much be past with alot of unstable systems

 

I can honestly say that AIDA64 isn't doing me justice either... I ran the test for 8 hours past no problem and then 20 minutes into a game I get a BSOD

[Jurrunio]

Repeat runs on Cinebench R15 should trip some unstable ones over,

 

Maybe CPU-Z's stress function? It's so demanding even Task Manager freezes.

[aeroencychris]

prime95 is one of the most intensive if you really want to be sure, but I've had no problems with AIDA64. Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility includes a test as well but I'm not sure how well it does.

[aeroencychris]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

Repeat runs on Cinebench R15 should trip some unstable ones over,

 

Maybe CPU-Z's stress function? It's so demanding even Task Manager freezes.

is that necessarily a good thing?

[Guest]

Personally I would just play the most stressful game you have available, or run the most stressful task. If it works and you see nothing go wrong do it a few more times or for longer. Once you are confident it is stable then you are good to go.

 

Stress tests do not normally reflect equally to what the system is able to do in real world situations.

[Shiv78]

2 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

prime95 is one of the most intensive if you really want to be sure, but I've had no problems with AIDA64. Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility includes a test as well but I'm not sure how well it does.

Prime95 has some problems though and can damage components. At least AIDA is safe to use. 

XTU's stress test isn't good, my 4770K passes a 30 minute one @4.5GHz then crashes playing TF2 for 5 mins

[TahoeDust]

34 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Prime95 has some problems though and can damage components.

Details and links please.

[Jade]

45 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Prime95 has some problems though and can damage components. At least AIDA is safe to use. 

XTU's stress test isn't good, my 4770K passes a 30 minute one @4.5GHz then crashes playing TF2 for 5 mins

Stop spreading false fears. The fear of damaged components is/was only relevant to Haswell overvolting for certain workloads (AVX/AVX2)... and it was entirely avoided by running static voltages rather than adaptive. Also, running custom test ranges would allow you to avoid the "dangerous" tests entirely.

 

You should be testing it with more than one type of test, anyway, if you actually care about stability.

 

OP: AIDA64, XTU, Prime95, OCCT, x264 encoding (example test here), repetitive Cinebench runs.

 

10 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

Details and links please.

He's referring to the Haswell scare where Haswell would severely overvolt when running AVX/AVX2 workloads thanks to Intel's FIVR. Prime95's default tests include workloads that would cause Haswell to overvolt to unsafe levels -- completely, 100% mitigated by running a static voltage rather than adaptive. Just Google "Haswell Prime95 damage" and you'll find plenty of posts about it. Here's one post from these forums on it.

 

[porina]

40 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Prime95 has some problems though and can damage components

The only problem Prime95 has is some people don't understand it. There is no way P95 can damage a system unless you've entered ludicrous OC settings without backing it up with the supporting structure to deliver power adequately, and get rid of the resulting heat too. It can run pretty hot, but systems will just thermally throttle without damage if it has inadequate cooling.

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Prime95 has some problems though and can damage components. At least AIDA is safe to use. 

XTU's stress test isn't good, my 4770K passes a 30 minute one @4.5GHz then crashes playing TF2 for 5 mins

It all depends 

 

Can run as others say Cinebench back to back 10 times and it plays games fine but when it comes to watching videos through VLC all night and clicking on chrome causes a black screen crash. 

 

Yeah that's what i was doing with my Ryzen chip

 

Now i test 4 hours Prime 95 blend before i declare stable enough. 

 

XTU is also not bad i used that with my 4790K i think i ran that test for 8 hours when i was sleeping. 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

55 minutes ago, xovague said:

What is the most reliable stress testing software to use for a test of stability for a overclock? Cause alot of people are saying AIDA64 can pretty much be past with alot of unstable systems

 

I can honestly say that AIDA64 isn't doing me justice either... I ran the test for 8 hours past no problem and then 20 minutes into a game I get a BSOD

there is non you just have to use a bunch of them since they all hit in different areas you have to use both synthetic and gaming benchmarks thats why reviewersa uses multiple benchmarks

[scottyseng]

1 hour ago, xovague said:

What is the most reliable stress testing software to use for a test of stability for a overclock? Cause alot of people are saying AIDA64 can pretty much be past with alot of unstable systems

 

I can honestly say that AIDA64 isn't doing me justice either... I ran the test for 8 hours past no problem and then 20 minutes into a game I get a BSOD

For me, I run 10 to 20 passes of Intel Burn Test at maximum. I usually never have any stability issues beyond that.

[faziten]

Try a bit of anything.

My personal battery of tests is:

 

10 min Aida 64 FPU only (uncheck everything else... ALU is a lot more permissive than FPU load). And play some music on background. Audio should not stutter or glitch.

Crysis 3 Welcome to the jungle and run while the A.I shoots missiles at you. It's fun and taxing as fuck.

H264 2-pass encode from 4K footage to 1080p with handbrake. The second pass will trigger WHEA loggers if anything is barely off. 

Compress files with 7-zip and use password protected AES. if compression experienced any issue will render a corrupt CR. 

Run any emulator you can get. Try Cemu, PCSX2, etc. Any emulator is taxing and stability reliant so any minor glitch becomes a hard crash. 

Lastly i like to try Sleep function in windows. Sleep your rig and try to wake it up. Most stable rigs fail at this point due to vCore in transient loads and wont wake up at all. 

 

I found this kind of testing more reliable over past years. I had many rigs that could not pass Prime95 but never, ever crashed in heavy workloads (video, CAD, Virtual machines). So i'm totally not using it for validation. It's more a motherboard VRM burnout test rather than a CPU test. Plus, Haswell is always a risk with that software in AVX loads.