Intel Burn Test (Stability Testing)

Pneumonic · 22 Aug 2008 at 22:15

WARNING: THIS STRESS TEST CAUSES EXTREME STRESS TO YOUR CPU... BE WARNED!

Some of you might have seen this over @ XS but have being playing around with it and think its pretty cool especilly to quickly test the stability of some settings..

anyways linky is here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=197835

thread explains all about it certainly worth a look at and well it does stress your systems... get around 5-7c higher load temps than on Prime95 small ffts! :eek:

Used it earlier and ran a 1500mb test 20 times which takes about 15 mins and is meant to be eqivilant to 8 hour prime run... so far 4 hours in and my prime is holding nicely...

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 00:03

it is pretty insane... but stable settings for 10 min test I ran @ 3.6ghz, is now 2hours into prime and looking good

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 01:50

its certainly hardcore

I find when I am testing settings its nice to do a short test like 500mb * 5 should throw up any really bad instability and then do like a 1500mb * 20 test to really give it something to think about..

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 13:15

yeah you should notice it stresses all your cores and then individual cores as well so on all core load you get some crazy temps!

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 17:38

well its using a lot of RAM should could be northbridge / RAM instability rather than CPU

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 21:03

yeah I have found it very useful to quickly test settings like a 1000mb * 5 test seems to equate to at least 4 hours prime stable and only takes 2 mins

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 23:36

Ben M said:
Ultimately, though, your pc only needs to be stable enough for what you use it for.

If it's passed a long orthos/prime run, it's likely to be stable enough for your needs. Hell, if it can run a 32M pi, or a game for an hour it's likely to be stable enough.

It's nice to have a new stress tester, but there really isn't much point, it'll just cause more people to say "IZ IT BURN STABLE?111!1!!!ELEVEN" in overclocking threads, which helps nobody.

well I would agree to some extent.. but its useful to have a tool that in 10 mins tells you that your settings are nice and stable rather than waiting hours...

no setup will ever be 100% stable but its good to know that 99.9999% of the time the system is going to die when you are doing something important

Pneumonic · 23 Aug 2008 at 23:42

Ben M said:
superpi would tell you this, and is probably a better indication of how real-world stable your computer is going to be; if computers that run Prime for hours and have never crashed, will crash with burn.

depends what you do on the rig... if you encode for example or fold or what have you something that is superpi stable will die pretty quickly when things really get going.. superpi is only going to use 1 core.. so isnt the best test of stability...

Again I am not saying everyone should run 8 hours prime or 4 hours this or that.. it isnt needed thats true.. but that IBT runs in a couple of mins and from my experience (limited granted only been playing with it for a day or two) gives a good indication of stability