Intel burn test?

Jango

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I used the Intel burn test to see if my overclock was stable the other day, and it said it was.

Is there anything additional I have to do during the Intel burn test, such as checking the temperature for example?
 
It says:

'Package Specifications
TCASE 72°C'

Does that mean that it will operate safely up to 72°C?
 
Jango said:
It says:

'Package Specifications
TCASE 72°C'

Does that mean that it will operate safely up to 72°C?
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Tcase is not the same as core temperatures, and you are most likely looking at core temperatures when you oc.

With intel burn test I wouldnt go passed 85-86. You may decide a higher value as I think even with your CPU the core temp when the CPU begins to throttle is 95 or 100C.

This program will stress your CPU more than any other, and from my own personal experience the core temperatures are always 10-15C higher at full load when running intel burn test. So its not really a representative test of real cpu load, its just a quick way to blast your CPU to the limit and see if its able to cope, with the notion that if it copes then it is likely to cope with less strenuous real life programs.
 
Thanks for your help everyone. :)

xiphrex said:
Tcase is not the same as core temperatures, and you are most likely looking at core temperatures when you oc.

With intel burn test I wouldnt go passed 85-86. You may decide a higher value as I think even with your CPU the core temp when the CPU begins to throttle is 95 or 100C.
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What are the 'core temperatures'?
 
xiphrex said:
from my own personal experience the core temperatures are always 10-15C higher at full load when running intel burn test.
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I'll second that, 10 mins of IBT gets me up to 85c but 2 hours of Prime only gets me to 73c :) worth using both as I've encountered many times when my overclock was stable in one but not the other.
 
OP before you run intel burn test, make sure you disable C1E and EIST. Secondly disable your antivirus momentarily.
Choose the 'Custom' stress level and input Free physical memory value or slightly lower for more accurate test. You can obtain this value from windows task manager.
Don't select 'Maximum' stress level. Though it sounds nice it won't stress your cpu as much as it makes use of both physical and virtual (cache) memory and you will get lower GFlops (speed) values during test. There is a article which I also posted in another thread aswell as in my own thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18206940

You should run a minimum of 10 passes or 50mins of test going by the article.

Afaik core temperature is the temperature of individual core inside your cpu. So it is like an internal cpu temperature and the most accurate for giving you temp values.:)
 
Yeah that's right - core temperature is the temperature inside the cpu rather than the socket temperature that some monitors give you which can be significantly lower
 
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