Apps for testing OC

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I had been using PC Mark 10 demo for testing how my RAM tiiming changes were affecting performance, however this now crashes when runing OpenCL Benchmarks and hangs my machine so badly I have to switch off the PSU to reset. What do people use to test the OC? I know about £dMark but I want something that tests how it affects day to day tasks as opposed to just gaming. Any recommendations please?
 
Thanks all. Sorryt I should have mentioned my methodology. Any change I make I then run testmem5 with anta777 extreme. Providing this completes succesfully I then run 3 iterations of 3DMark demo, 3 iterations of PCMark10 demo and then 3 iterations of CineBench20. Testmem is passing fine and 3DMark demo and Cinebench are as well, PCMark10 demo was until a couple of days ago then just started to hang my machine as described. When I restart my machine and reload PCMark10 demo it says that it has failed an OpenCL test but not other details. THis leads me to think the app is not right as opposed to my RAM being at fault. I'm currently running at stock everything (not even XMP) and it is still giving the same behaviour
 
Don't know your CPU, if it's a later intel then maybe you need to manually adjust your VF voltage points, transient changes in frequency can cause locks/crashes if the relevant voltage per frequency is out of whack.
 
Thanks all. Sorryt I should have mentioned my methodology. Any change I make I then run testmem5 with anta777 extreme. Providing this completes succesfully I then run 3 iterations of 3DMark demo, 3 iterations of PCMark10 demo and then 3 iterations of CineBench20. Testmem is passing fine and 3DMark demo and Cinebench are as well, PCMark10 demo was until a couple of days ago then just started to hang my machine as described. When I restart my machine and reload PCMark10 demo it says that it has failed an OpenCL test but not other details. THis leads me to think the app is not right as opposed to my RAM being at fault. I'm currently running at stock everything (not even XMP) and it is still giving the same behaviour
Its unstable.
You have to test with TM5 again after a reboot for re-train stability. Extreme is obsolete. Absolut is better.
 
So I have finally found what the issue is. If I leave my multiplier at auto it causes the crash. If I set it to 35 then the test runs fine. It is a 5950X running in a B450 Tomahawk Max. Has anyone else seen these sort of issues? Currently testing with multiplier set to 35 to see what my RAM can run at (4 x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16G)
 
May need to play with
Soc, vddg,vddp voltage?
Only time my 5950x was unstable
Was when I messed around with something
That made it unstable at idle/low load

Got mine at 4.5ghz all core
5.05ghz single core
Not messed around with overclocking my ram
In ages though so it's at stock settings for now

What happens in real life usage?
All these stress tests are fine
But real life usage is what matters to me
 
You mention the multiplier is at x35, and auto before that, do you have any other changes enabled such as pbo or a +mhz boost? I have seen/experienced those kinds of things myself, when trying to tweak a particular setting - too aggressive a pbo, too low a voltage (either on the cpu core side, or infinity fabric/memory controller side)

Also - you say you have the multiplier set at x35 and are now pushing the ram to see what it will OC at, I highly recommend doing 1 at a time, getting the configured completely stable before moving on to the ram, I've had a pbo that wa Sony marginally unstable and only appeared 2 weeks after an oc (event viewer and whea great for narrowing down the specific core) so while your x35 may appear stable now, it may be mostly* stable and throw an error a week from now, which can easily be attributed to the ram changes and lead you down the wrong road for trying trying fix the instability

As for stability testing software I've seen a lot mentioned here that I use myself, r20/r23, ycruncher, core cycler, memtest, 3dmark - all great options - but sometimes just using the pc as normal will bring up issues - I mentioned earlier about the pbo curve, I could have the pc pass almost any test I could think of, but a few days in just watching a YouTube video and light browsing would cause a crash,

hope some of this helps.
 
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