CPU Stress Testing

Jokester · 23 Dec 2018 at 14:43

What are people using to test overclock stability at the moment, specifically AMD Zen?

Disco_P · 23 Dec 2018 at 18:26

Realbench for me, though I am not a zen user. You might also have to change pagefile size for it to be able to use all the system ram.

HWbot x265 running enough simultaneous 4K encodes to fill your ram is another option.

mattyfez · 24 Dec 2018 at 08:25

Cinebench cpu test as it's reletivley quick to run and takes a bit of the tedium out of the reboot - adjust bios - re test cycle whilst dialing in an overclock.

Once I'm happy with that, a couple of runs of realbench just to be sure.

That's all I do, works for me and life's too short.

DarkHorizon472 · 24 Dec 2018 at 08:44

As above and also find bf v or bf 1 is good at finding unstable overclocks in general, if it is stable for over an hour then things are going in the right direction.

Apone70 · 24 Dec 2018 at 14:55

cinebench for a quick test, can always tell if it stalls for a moment that it needs a little more juice. Aida64 if you want a long test

mattyfez · 24 Dec 2018 at 15:09

Apone70 said:
cinebench for a quick test, can always tell if it stalls for a moment that it needs a little more juice. Aida64 if you want a long test

Yeh cinebench is good for quickly identifying instability, if it goes from full on bluscreen to just crashing to desktop, bit more juice and it should run.