CPU test?

[China Man]

Hi,

I have bought myself a E6320 and did a few changes in my motherboard bios.

what software do we use nowadays to test the stability and monitor the temp of the overclock effects?

Benson

 

[Cob]

Use Orthos for testing the CPU, and either Intels TAT or CoreTemp to monitor the temps.

 

[China Man]

many thanks,

I got those up and running at the moment. When do I know I hit the limit? I meant until I hit BSOD?

Benson

 

[Cob]

Orthos will stop running on a core once it detects an error. You can't miss the failure notice once it appears.

 

[China Man]

many thanks again.

I think my ram is limiting my progress

I got 4x512 PC 5300, now running FSB 333 and it is rock stable at 50c max which means the CPU is 1.86G OC at 2.34G.

once the prime finishes I will try running the higher FSB than 333.

 

[manic111]

When running Orthos do I need to watch it and stop if, say, the temps go over 70C or so? Or should I just leave it for a few hours and trust my computer?

 

[Cob]

When running Orthos do I need to watch it and stop if, say, the temps go over 70C or so? Or should I just leave it for a few hours and trust my computer?

Trust your computer, unless they start going over 80c. But it's a good idea to check it now and again incase it's failed and you need to adjust your overclock.

 

[hp7909]

I've always wondered if a system failed a test while running say overnight as you get some zzz* & it crashes/freezes no BSOD, etc just hangs there & you only notice in the morning, could that cause some damage to the components?

*alternative scenario: you go away for a few hours. Can't seat there staring at a screen for hours!

 

[China Man]

Nice,

all stable at 2.3, need RAM to run at 400+ to reach 3.0G

going to get some ram now.

 

[jak731]

The best stability software for testing a CPU is prime 95. Nothing else gets my cpu as hot or as quickly. When overclocking using clockgen it tends to pick up errors before SuperPi aswell. On a multi core system you can run one one iteration of the program on each core. Simply copy the EXE to another file path and open it again (otherwise it just bring the already running version to the foreground).

I've always wondered if a system failed a test while running say overnight as you get some zzz* & it crashes/freezes no BSOD, etc just hangs there & you only notice in the morning, could that cause some damage to the components?

*alternative scenario: you go away for a few hours. Can't seat there staring at a screen for hours!

Did this once to a computer, well for 3 hours ish, just restarted it and it was OK. Unless its due to overheating i cant imagine any permanent damage happening.