Stress Test Fail :(

[AMD Lover]

So my OC on my CPU failed after 5hrs. Is that long enough/stable enough or do i need to bump up the voltage and try again?

[colonel_mortis]

Well if it fails then it's not 100% stable, so bump up the voltage because otherwise you do run the risk of BSODs/Kernel Panics. Once it gets past 12 hours you're probably safe from it ever crashing in normal use, but if it ever fails you are certainly advised to raise the voltage so that it is stable.

Then again, if all you were going to do is browse the internet on it (bit of a waste but that's beside the point), it would probably be stable.

[Phillyphries]

I had my 8320 @ 4.3 ghz running for 8 hours straight on Prime95 and I thought it really wasn't necessary to keep going.

 

I raised the voltage up a bit before I had it stable, which before failed after like 2-3 hours. I would raise it maybe a little and test again

[UnknownEngineer]

That depends on your preference, if you find that it gives you trouble in running applications that you use do what is necessary. In my opinion 5H is good.

Can you tell us more? what CPU and what OC temps too.

[Thecrazyswede]

I had my 4.8 ghz profile crash at 17 hours of prime95, i deemed it stable enough for normal use.

[mgsstar]

If it fails then you would have to either lower the multiplier or increase the voltage. I don't think you would want it to BSOD on you when you are working on something important and didn't save.

[deathjester]

I've had stress test pass for a day and fail in BF4 in minutes. That is when I stopped stress testing for long periods of time.

 

10 minutes of aida, 10 minutes of Asus realbench encode, a few realbench stress tests. Put the computer to sleep and wake it in between all of them. 1st round of prime blend if temps are ok. Cinebench r15. Old Cinebench. A run through the free 3dmarkvantage.

 

Rock n roll on the games. Saves you a ton of time and is much more fun imo. Probably more accurate to, since you are running multiple tests. If you can play BF4 without crashing (minus servers), your computer is good to go.

 

OC cache? Well that I just use Aida 64 with just cache checked. Everything else takes too damn long for cache to crash.

 

OC memory is the easiest. 10 min of prime blend. Memtest later when I sleep and don't have to worry about temps. Wake up and it passed? Cool.