Prime95 or other????

[RabeaticSquirrel]

I'm trying to find some type of benchmarking software other than 3DMark2000 v1.1 Something to stress my CPU to 100% load. I'm trying to OC, so once I get it to POST and boot, I want to stress the heck out of it. I think Prime 95 is strickly for benchmarking though, correct? Any sugestions?

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Yeah Prime95 will do the trick, so will RC5 or Quake3.

 

[Napalm]

Prime 95 is quite good, but it is by no means the best. I find that BurnP6 or BurnBX stresses my CPU to a much greater degree than Prime 95. Prime 95 gets my CPU up to a sustained 45 degrees celcius, whereas BurnP6 will get it up to 49 degrees celcius.

Cheers,
Napalm

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

use multiple programs. prime95 + 3dmark + cpu stability test 5.0 + seti. this works for me.

i don't like cpu stability test 6.0. the floppy test thing it does pisses me off. 5.0 seems to do just as well but without the damn floppy thing.

 

[nexus9]

seti, RC5, OGR, etc will all do the trick. While you're at it, you could join one of the Team Anandtech distributed computing teams...

-Nexus9

 

[kponds]

I like running Prime95 and CPU Stability Test simultaneoulsy - I use Quake3 as a quick test but the Prime95/CPU Stability for burn-in.