Question stress-testing software

[Turbonium]

I want to stress the whole system, not just the CPU.

What's some good options? I don't know what's good nowadays.

EDIT: I'm thinking IntelBurnTest + some Prime95 ?

Might honestly just get Intel XTU to start, idk.

 

[IEC]

If 13th and 14th Gen Intel parts, I would avoid running stress tests until their degradation issues are sorted out. Otherwise, carry on.

Any Unreal Engine 5 game with shader compilation will also stress the CPU to the max and crash with an out of video memory error or similar red herring if the CPU is unstable. Examples: Black Myth Wukong, The First Descendent, etc.

 

[Turbonium]

12700KF

"Upgraded" from a 13600KF lol.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Don't worry. You should be safe.

I've been running my 12700K @ 5.1 GHz all core using Intel XTU and I was able to get higher benchmark scores with little to no issues (the physics test in Passmark CPU test failed to complete once. Ran the CPU Mark test again and it was fine).

You do preferably need a huge air cooler or AIO to hit anything above 4.5 GHz all core, though. Some tests in Geekbench AI regressed, for example, at 5.1 GHz all core due to thermal throttling despite the CPU dissipating the heat through the giant IceSleet G6 cooler.

 

[Turbonium]

Don't worry. You should be safe.

I've been running my 12700K @ 5.1 GHz all core using Intel XTU and I was able to get higher benchmark scores with little to no issues (the physics test in Passmark CPU test failed to complete once. Ran the CPU Mark test again and it was fine).

You do preferably need a huge air cooler or AIO to hit anything above 4.5 GHz all core, though. Some tests in Geekbench AI regressed, for example, at 5.1 GHz all core due to thermal throttling despite the CPU dissipating the heat through the giant IceSleet G6 cooler.

Yeah, I think I'm fine. I'm just worried about having accidentally had the RAM at 5,600 MT/s for a few hours before I realized what was happening. At which point I set it to 4,800 which is also "wrong", and now I'm at a slow af 4,400. It's kinda comical, actually.

Maybe one day I'll just stop caring and OC everything and not look back.