Intel Burn Test (Stability Testing)

Is this the one that isn't meant to be used, and can damage your cpu? Or am I thinking of a different intel stresser?
 
Well my 8 hour prime stable 3.8Ghz hit 80C and hung with this stress program.

It;s useful as a very quick guide to stability, a bit overkill i think though.
 
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
 
iv picked the full test using all my memory 5 times and its been running for 10 mins or so. this is my e2180 @ 3ghz hitting 48 max. how long do you think this should take me?
 
Bradley8988 said:
iv picked the full test using all my memory 5 times and its been running for 10 mins or so. this is my e2180 @ 3ghz hitting 48 max. how long do you think this should take me?
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Not much longer, maybe 5 mins.

At least yours is stable :p

Mine died within 10 minutes :(
 
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.
 
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.
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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 said:
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...
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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.
 
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.
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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
 
Maybe i'm a perfectionist, but i want a system that is as stable as its supposed to be at stock speed. Would you sup up car and keep an underrated transmission that could potentially blow to bits if pushed too hard but would work fine at stock BHP? might work fine but one day you push it too hard and bam... i generally run prime/memtest and 3D intensive benchmarks, takes about 2 days but i've never had an overclocking related issue with any of my rigs.

BTW while this program is good, i still failed prime pretty early with two systems i'm overclocking for m8s while passing 20+ loops of the burn test, little vcore bump seems to have sorted it though.
 
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Passed the 5x test on half RAM fine on my Q6600 @ 3.2GHz (400x8) using the Intel stock cooler :p...83 degrees though :eek:

Crashes in Windows before it even starts if I try and select the full test though :confused:
 
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.
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SuperPi 32M is only OK for approximate stability testing, nothing more. Heck, my system has been 32M stable and then crashed doing the most basic tasks.

I would rather run IntelBurnTest for 10 or 15 minutes just to make sure it's well and truly stable. I would never rely on Pi, that's foolish, IMO.
 
ok thought i would give this program a run to see how it fairs. much better than using the command line version of linepack.

as for the testing, allocating around 1.2gig of ram i ran the test for 5 cycles, no problems, though i may as well do 10 cycles, no issues. then set it to 20 cycles no problems it passed. so i set it to 30 cycles and went to bed, woke up and saw error this morning, although i think the test finished much quicker than the time i was asleep for.

this app deffo gets the cpu hotter than anything else iv used. it even edges out snm by 2c.

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i will test again by raising the vcore by 1 notch tonight and set it for 500 cycles, hopefully it runs for 12 hours or so. need to find a way to set it to run continously non stop.
so just a heads up to others who run it. 10-15 mins runs may be useless with this app.

ohh forgot to add, max temps recorded by realtemp on the [email protected] using 1.2875v was 68c, 68c, 63c, 63c. on all 4 cores using a freezer 7 pro set to pwm fan speed. so yes i could hear the fan spinning up and down when i was sleeping ;)
 
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