Stress testing RyZen....What are you using ???

[Jamin280672]

Hi Guys, just a quick question, I was just wondering what people are using to stress test RyZen, ive got a R7 1700 running on a Gigabyte AB350m Gaming 3 motherboard at the moment, I gave up waiting for the MSI Mortar, all shops keep doing is changing the dates of receiving that board, anyway, so far I'm at 3.7ghz on stock volts, however, as this board has no LLC, I can see the volts are going up to 1.188v top line, and 47oC top line, on a custom water loop, ive been running a little bit of prime95 ver 28.9, and also AIDA64 Extreme beta 5.80.498 beta for RyZen, also, cant get CPU-z to open up no matter what I try, I'm running a RAID0 array and it always get stuck at the beginning when scanning storage.

Just wondering what you guys are using to monitor temps, voltages and which version of prime95 etc you're using.

I'll post some pictures ASAP.

 

[Jamin280672]

Real Bench for at least 1 hour, ideally 4-8, with all memory used. That said, nothing beats an extended session 1-3 hours of gaming.

Thanks, my memory is running at rubbish speeds at the moment, I don't think theres any chance of that being unstable, 2133mhz instead of 3000mhz, CL14 instead of CL16, if I even try to raise it to 2666mhz in the bios, all weird things start happening, like my RAID is broken, any hard drives connected to the chipset storage are no longer seen, boot loops, Windows complaining about dodgy drivers and that's if I can even get into windows.

 

[Jamin280672]

The trouble with tests like aida64 is a lot of memory tests are quite small and actually fit inside of the cpu cache, make sure before testing, you Goto preferences and bump up the amount to use.

 

[Jamin280672]

I checked the task manager and it showed 16gb of ram was in use..

Ahh that's good, it's one thing I found when using prime95 blend back in the days, it used to use hardley any ram, so I used to set it to custom instead where you can specify the amount of ram to use.

 

[Jamin280672]

I'm Starting with fast Intel burn test 1gb then movie to 4gb realbench 15 minutes. Then if that passes i'm starting big guns very high on IBT if pass 8gb 1hour of realbench. If that passed then IBT Maximum that puts cpu/memory on its knees

I ran IBT this morning, 3.9ghz, past 100 runs of the standard test easy, set 20 runs of maximum settings and can't get past about 8 passes yet, no point running prime until you can get through this.

@easyrider prime doesn't support Ryzen yet so no point running it at all, have you not noticed when you run it, it only does 2 passes of each test and runs tests for the K10 cpu with no avx, waste of time, no point running it.

 

[Jamin280672]

21.9 Ryzen Support


http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=22141

That's a very new one as yesterday when I downloaded prime, the latest was 28.10, going to download that now, thanks.

EDIT: ahh I see why, its pretty much a beta

 

[Jamin280672]

I test in 5 stages when overclocking

1. Boot?
2. Can it do 30 minutes of RealBench with all RAM?
3. Can it do Prime for 30 minutes?
4. Any issues in long gaming sessions?
5. 4 hours of RealBench and Prime

Stage 1 and 2 are used when testing and getting to Overclock goal area

Stage 2, 3 and 4 are used to fine tune the Overclock

Stage 5 is basically signing it off, sometimes bumping the volts up a notch.

Thanks for this.

Last night I ran 7 hours of AID64, although I don't find AIDA stress test tough enough to prove true stability, and that was proven this morning, I ran 100 passes of IBT with standard settings, it flew though, however, I then went to 20 passes of maximum settings on IBT and it kept crashing, I'm not completely satisfied it was the CPU causing this though, I have a suspicious feeling its the VRMs, sometimes it would reboot, sometimes just completely power off, adjusted it by dropping the clock to 3.9ghz and the voltages a bit, finally got through 50 passes of IBT on max settings, max memory, its now running realbench for the last 4 hours, but before I goto bed tonight, i'll fire up prime95, if its gets through all of that then i'll be happy.

My CPU will do 4ghz, but at 3.9ghz I barely need any voltage increase, just +0.180 to the cpu core voltage, everything else is on normal, however to get 4ghz, an extra 100mhz more, I need stupid amounts of voltage, just not worth the extra heat / extra voltage etc for only 100mhz more.