best stability benchmark?

[TitusTroy]

what's the best overall system stability testing program for dual core systems---ORTHOS, OCCT or Prime95?

 

[aigomorla]

my personal favorate is prime95 v 25.6

 

[Markfw]

None.... F@H for 7 days @ 24/7 full load. If you can do that with no early unit ends, you have a stable system. 30 days is even better, I have had one puke after 2 weeks (rare) Usually you know in 2-3 days.

 

[TitusTroy]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
my personal favorate is prime95 v 25.6

how do you set the priority in version 25.6?...and it has dual core support so I don't have to run 2 instances of the program correct?

 

[graysky]

It does natively 4 threads (maybe more, I dunno since I don't have a dual-quad setup). Only thing you wanna do is enable round off error checking and you should be good to go.

 

[harpoon84]

I prefer OCCT - it's quick (the standard test is 30 minutes) yet if your system is unstable it definitely picks it up in that timeframe. Orthos is not bad as well, but it can take many hours to find errors, so it's best to let it run overnight.

 

[n7]

P95 for CPU testing.
HCI Memtest for RAM.

You can get away with P95 for RAM testing if you only have 2 GB usually, but if you run lots of RAM, it's not very good for finding issues, even when set to utilize all the RAM.

 

[DarkRogue]

What is TAM testing?

This thread seems interesting as I'll be attempting my first ever overclock soonish, so would help to pick up a few of these programs, but F@H for 7-30 days sounds a bit extreme.. I'm hoping to get all the testing done inside of a day so I thought Prime95 and Memtest+ were good targets as they seem relatively quick. What does OCCT do?

 

[n7]

TAM testing is a new kind of testing that stresses your tandom access memory.

Or, more truthfully, it's typo

Use Prime95 set to small FFTs to test your CPU's stability.
Use Memtest86+ bootable to quickly test RAM when tweaking/OCing it.
Then for the real test, run HCI Memtest in Windows (set it to use as much free RAM as you have over multiple instances).
It will stress your RAM/MCH more than anything else (excepting LinPack, which will nearly kill any system).

 

[Zenoth]

I think that Orthos is the one between the known stress tests which doesn't stress the CPU much. I can see like anyone else that when Orthos runs it loads my CPU Cores at 100%, indeed, but curiously, when I do a Orthos Blend test I can still start-up Steam, launch TF2 and play for hours non-stop with a minimum amount of very brief hitches here and there (especially during the first five minutes, after which all plays smoothly).

But if I do the same with Prime95 or OCCT I can barely launch Steam in the first place (it does launch, but it takes AGES).

 

[Cheex]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
I think that Orthos is the one between the known stress tests which doesn't stress the CPU much. I can see like anyone else that when Orthos runs it loads my CPU Cores at 100%, indeed, but curiously, when I do a Orthos Blend test I can still start-up Steam, launch TF2 and play for hours non-stop with a minimum amount of very brief hitches here and there (especially during the first five minutes, after which all plays smoothly).

But if I do the same with Prime95 or OCCT I can barely launch Steam in the first place (it does launch, but it takes AGES).

If you are going to run Orthos blend, set the priority to 9...:thumbsup:

 

[Zenoth]

Good point indeed Cheex, mine is set to 4. Is setting it to 9 making it on par with Prime95 or OCCT's default stressing?

I might try it when I want to increase my OC, but right now I'm set up at my current frequencies, it's alright for now, a sweet spot.

 

[Rubycon]

There's an old program called CPU Stability Tester that has a CPU warming function. When that is used you cannot even move the mouse! If you CTRL+ALT+DEL the task manager screen comes up about a minute later! Talk about realtime priority! :Q

 

[myocardia]

Ruby, Orthos is about that bad, if you run Small FFT's at priority 10.