Overclocking How to Test Your OC?

smogsy · 7 Jul 2013 at 09:44

I know a lot of you run prime 95 For 24 hours.

Im fairly new to OCing but, Prime95 doesn't support the new instructions sets?

I do it this way, what do you think of this way? What is your way?

1. After setting a OC i Play a stressful game for 1 hour+ make sure PCI stability is there (Tomb Raider/BF3/Hitman

2. After this, Run Prime (might start running AIDA64)

setter · 7 Jul 2013 at 09:59

Normal use with the games/programs you use is as good a way as any. Ive had stable ibt/p95 oc's fail the moment ive started to play a game. Also with ib, keep an eye out for whea event 19 id errors in event viewer. If your getting theese it's an indication that an error has occured and been corrected. Upping vcore a tad will help eliminate theese issues.

BluD · 7 Jul 2013 at 10:59

I run crysis Benchmarks then a few runs of 3dmark.

killoc · 7 Jul 2013 at 17:37

Aida64 for 30mins, then OCCT with AVX for 30mins.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 7 Jul 2013 at 17:47

Read my most recent thread, Crysis 3 with grassy environments is certainly a good stress test, run around with explosions for 15-20 with all settings maxed, if youve got something unstable thatll soon tell you.
Other than that I use Prime95 to test CPU and 3Dmark for GPU

eddyr · 8 Jul 2013 at 11:36

If using offset with a high oc or minus offset; IBT High/Vhigh 1 Thread and a couple 100 runs.
Your cpu can be stable all cores heavily loaded and after vdroop/LLC applied but their can be a iffy area on full clocks single thread (or low load) in my experience.