Recommend a Benchmark Program for Overclocking

[Guest]

I just put together a new system and am going to try my hand at overclocking the CPU.

Since this is the first time I have even had the ability to overclock I was wondering if anyone could recommend a benchmarking program to test stability.

[sazrocks]

Cinebench

 

[ARikozuM]

P95 for synthetic.

IBT for synthetic. 

Every game you have for non-synthetic. 

 

Yes, it is very possible to survive 24 hours of IBT and P95 only to fail when playing Rocket League.

[johndms]

14 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Cinebench

 

Cinebench is not going to test stability very well.  Testing overclock stability requires something that'll stress the component long enough for it to reach maximum temperature, and push it to continue to perform at that level.

 

Personally, I recommend Aida64's System Stability Test.  I've done plenty of testing on my Ryzen 5 1600 and it's helped me to dial in a stable clock.  But only after failing many times, usually due to low voltage, sometimes after 2+ hours.

[TahoeDust]

I'm dumb and dont read.

 

OP are you looking for a stability test or benchmark?  The best of either, is not good at both.

[sazrocks]

1 minute ago, johndms said:

Cinebench is not going to test stability very well.  Testing overclock stability requires something that'll stress the component long enough for it to reach maximum temperature, and push it to continue to perform at that level.

 

Personally, I recommend Aida64's System Stability Test.  I've done plenty of testing on my Ryzen 5 1600 and it's helped me to dial in a stable clock.  But only after failing many times, usually due to low voltage, sometimes after 2+ hours.

[johndms]

6 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

And in his post, he clearly says "I was wondering if anyone could recommend a benchmarking program to test stability".