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Is it me or is OCCT the most... how can I say... precise?
I mean I just ran a couple of tests earlier to make sure that my current overclock was stable, because I started to have doubts about its stability. Around a month ago I ran quite a long lasting (for me at least considering I need to use my PC for work purposes, not just gaming) 28+ hours Orthos Blend test. It never failed, no issues, ran stable until I manually stopped it. Then I believe "alright, 28 hours Orthos Blend, that thing gotta be 100% stable". So time goes by, I play games, do my work stuff, watch and create media, encode and decode... and so on. Almost everything I ran, created and tested was done without any hitches... almost. Indeed, at times I would be the victim of what I believe were software-related and quite unexpected crashes and strange in-game/in-software behaviors (I.E unresponsive). Recently I played some more TF2 and Bioshock, and I encoded and decoded many movies and audio files, and I kept getting those rare crashes. I changed my drivers, chipset, audio, video, monitor, etc, thinking that it would fix my problems.
Until today... I said "alright, they crash here and there, I go to discussion forums, I Google my problems and come up with no results, at least nothing comparable with the contexts I am experiencing". So I decided to try another stability test runs. In fact I started last night with Orthos, for three hours, and again it never crashed. Then I tried Prime95 this morning for four hours... no crashes. Only a little more than three hours ago I gave a try to OCCT, something I never tried before. Like my friend suggested, he said set its priority to "High", run under the CPU & RAM configuration, set its testing time to Infinity and let it go. That's what I did. Well let me say this: OCCT is awesome. All of my doubts were confirmed under 10 minutes. What might have taken 30+ hours for Orthos to find, was caught under freakin' 10 minutes with OCCT. Incredible. So for an entire month I was using a 90% stable system or so, I guess. I mean OCCT is so intensively testing the system that only the mouse cursor was responsive, the rest took anywhere between a minute to literally five minutes before responding, such as opening Firefox. I could play TF2 while Orthos was running! The difference is tremendous.
So my questions are:
1) What makes OCCT so precise/intensive?
2) Are you guys using OCCT too or do you still prefer another testing method/program?
3) Are your observations the same than mine? (I.E OCCT being able to detect instability at about 500% faster than Orthos or Prime95)
4) Did I missed something regarding Orthos and/or Prime95's settings that made them seem less efficient than OCCT?
Thanks.
I mean I just ran a couple of tests earlier to make sure that my current overclock was stable, because I started to have doubts about its stability. Around a month ago I ran quite a long lasting (for me at least considering I need to use my PC for work purposes, not just gaming) 28+ hours Orthos Blend test. It never failed, no issues, ran stable until I manually stopped it. Then I believe "alright, 28 hours Orthos Blend, that thing gotta be 100% stable". So time goes by, I play games, do my work stuff, watch and create media, encode and decode... and so on. Almost everything I ran, created and tested was done without any hitches... almost. Indeed, at times I would be the victim of what I believe were software-related and quite unexpected crashes and strange in-game/in-software behaviors (I.E unresponsive). Recently I played some more TF2 and Bioshock, and I encoded and decoded many movies and audio files, and I kept getting those rare crashes. I changed my drivers, chipset, audio, video, monitor, etc, thinking that it would fix my problems.
Until today... I said "alright, they crash here and there, I go to discussion forums, I Google my problems and come up with no results, at least nothing comparable with the contexts I am experiencing". So I decided to try another stability test runs. In fact I started last night with Orthos, for three hours, and again it never crashed. Then I tried Prime95 this morning for four hours... no crashes. Only a little more than three hours ago I gave a try to OCCT, something I never tried before. Like my friend suggested, he said set its priority to "High", run under the CPU & RAM configuration, set its testing time to Infinity and let it go. That's what I did. Well let me say this: OCCT is awesome. All of my doubts were confirmed under 10 minutes. What might have taken 30+ hours for Orthos to find, was caught under freakin' 10 minutes with OCCT. Incredible. So for an entire month I was using a 90% stable system or so, I guess. I mean OCCT is so intensively testing the system that only the mouse cursor was responsive, the rest took anywhere between a minute to literally five minutes before responding, such as opening Firefox. I could play TF2 while Orthos was running! The difference is tremendous.
So my questions are:
1) What makes OCCT so precise/intensive?
2) Are you guys using OCCT too or do you still prefer another testing method/program?
3) Are your observations the same than mine? (I.E OCCT being able to detect instability at about 500% faster than Orthos or Prime95)
4) Did I missed something regarding Orthos and/or Prime95's settings that made them seem less efficient than OCCT?
Thanks.
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