Question About Test Utilities

[LiquidFlame]

I just finished putting my rig together, and I want to test everything at stock speeds before I overclock to make sure everything works right. From what I have read, these are the utilities you need to use:

Displaying System Information
CPU-Z:

* Displays information about your system and settings

Stress Tests
Orthos:

* Stress tests your computer
* For quad core you need to run two instances of Orthos and set the affinity of one
instance to cores 1 and 2, and cores 3 and 4 to the other
* Minimum run time: 8 hours

Prime95:

* Stress tests your computer
* Minimum run time: 8 hours
Question: For quad core do you need to run more then one instances of Prime95 and if so are there any settings you need to change?

Memory Tests
MemTest86+:

* Tests you memory for errors
* Test each memory module individually
* Minimum run time: 7 passes

System Monitoring
CoreTemp:

* Monitors CPU temperature
Question: I?ve read that for the Q6600 G0 the Tjunction is set to 85 degree C instead of 100 degree C and because of this does not report correct temperatures. Is this true, and is there a way to fix it?


TAT:

* Monitors core temperatures


SpeedFan:

* Monitors voltages, fan speed and temperatures


Benchmarking
3Dmark06:

* Benchmarks your system


Is that everything I need? I know there are a bunch of different utilities, but those seem to be the ones that everyone is using. Also if you could answer my two questions that would be great too. Thanks for the advice in advanced.

 

[Mattz0r]

Originally posted by: LiquidFlame

Question: For quad core do you need to run more then one instances of Prime95 and if so are there any settings you need to change?

For Prime95, I would suggest running one instance for every core; for CPU testing with Prime95, I run the SmallFFT's tests. For general stability testing, I just run the default blended tests.

 

[7im]

Orthos has the option to run StressCPU, so try the new StressCPU v2, with multi-core support. No need to run multiple instances. And StressCPU v2 pushes the system harder than any other stress test.

http://www.gromacs.org/compone...ails/gid,80/Itemid,26/

Version 2.0 now supports both ia32 (32bit) as well as x86-64/em64t (64bit) platforms. It is multithreaded (both pthreads and win32 threads) by default and will automatically sense the number of CPUs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It runs slightly hotter, in particular for x86-64 systems, the checks are better, and you can now set it for a fixed excution time, e.g. 12 hours. The package includes pre-compiled binaries for Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and 32 as well as 64 bit OS X.

StressCPU is based on Gromacs molecular modeling code, which is used by the Folding@home client. Both are known to push a processor harder than Prime 95.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: 7im
Orthos has the option to run StressCPU, so try the new StressCPU v2, with multi-core support. No need to run multiple instances. And StressCPU v2 pushes the system harder than any other stress test.

http://www.gromacs.org/compone...ails/gid,80/Itemid,26/

Version 2.0 now supports both ia32 (32bit) as well as x86-64/em64t (64bit) platforms. It is multithreaded (both pthreads and win32 threads) by default and will automatically sense the number of CPUs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It runs slightly hotter, in particular for x86-64 systems, the checks are better, and you can now set it for a fixed excution time, e.g. 12 hours. The package includes pre-compiled binaries for Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, and 32 as well as 64 bit OS X.

StressCPU is based on Gromacs molecular modeling code, which is used by the Folding@home client. Both are known to push a processor harder than Prime 95.

Then why doesn't the heat buildup as high as Prime?

more heat = more stress which should be obvious.