Best software to test stability.

NachT

NachT

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I've tweak a couple of settings on my current setup, and over the months I've been running it fine, from what I knew anyway.

I'm just running an E6600 @ 3GHz, so not much of an OC on it. I ran benchmarks a while back, and no errors got received at the time, however...

Over the last couple of weeks the PC has been Blue Screening when doing either of the following 3 things:

1) Heavy session of gaming (about 4 hours+, some times can game for this amount of time with no blue screen however...)

2) When encoding a movie (This is the most common cause, as it happens about 1 in 3 movie encodes)

3) when playing a specific movie file I have on my hard disk. It only happens when I play THIS movie, all other movies are fine. (The movie plays fine on my other PC's, it's an 1080p x264 MKV file)


Judging by the frequency of the blue screens, on certain tasks, it sounds like it's probably RAM or CPU related.

What's the best / most efficient software for stress testing / diagnosing (type of thing) the CPU?

I've used a number of stress tests in the last couple of years, however I forgot the name. And as theres so many, what ones the best?

I'll stick to Memtest to test the RAM. Next time I'm at work I'll leave it on for a good 18 hours.

Cheers! Sorry for the wall of text.
 
If you're getting a blue screen, if anything this is handier then it just rebooting or freezing out because you will be getting a BSOD error code on the screen, if you make note of this, and wack it in google, you are more then likely going to get an answer as to what might be causing the problem..

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Windows-XP-Blue-Screen-Death-STOP-Codes-t43519.html

There is a list, and I don't know if thats all of them, but if anything going to be the most common.

You want to make to ideally write down anything from 0x__________
 
IBT is a great tool, it gets your CPU hotter than prime 95 and is reputed to use the same linpack algorithms that Intel use. It's really quick which kinda makes me nervous, so i will use a good long prime 95 test as well.
 
Cheers guys, much appreciated for all the above.

I'll set the tests off before i go to bed! :)

I'll also take a note of the BSOD error next time it occurs.
 
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