applications for testing OC'ing stability?

[brinstar117]

I heard that Prime 95 is a good program to run to see how stable an overclocked CPU is. Are there any others I should know about?

I have a PIII 550E kinda laying around in another computer. I wanted to try overclocking it. (I've never overclocked anything before)

It's on an MSI 6163pro board with the Intel 440BX chipset. The chip is on an Iwill Slotket 2. If my bios doesn't have the settings I need for voltage adjustment, then I do that manually on the slotket I presume. Thanks for all the help!

 

[JimMc]

RC5!!!!


Go here Team AnandTech for info.

 

[xWeston]

Play Games, do prime95, rc5, seti, Sandra burn in

 

[dowxp]

rc5, counterstrike, quake3, games that run under load with alot of instruction.

 

[V]

Running SETI@HOME and playing counterstrike works well for testing stability.

 

[Lower]

I ran Prime 95 and seti for a few hours each and saw no instability.
I ran the PC game "Black & White" for all of 10 minutes and knew I was OC'ed too much.

My vote goes to B&W -you should have an answer as to your stability within 30 minutes.

 

[kvizbar]

Prime 95 is the best for testing a successful overclock. Not only will it test the stability of your system, but the accuracy as well. DO NOT Genome, Fold, or SETI without running a Prime95 self-test, otherwise you will be sending erroneous results back to the project server.

 

[Swanny]

Lower: It was probably your sound card or video card that caused the crash in B&W because it didn't like the FSB frequency. Since Seti@home (I run it all the time) and Prime 95 (I use it just for stability) only stress the CPU, it didn't crash then. My point being, S@h and Prime 95 are good for CPU testing, but you need to do other things to check all the sub systems.