Stress testing

kazakore · 3 Jan 2009 at 11:55

Is there anything better and free than Prime95 and Memtest86 for stress testing CPU and RAM?

.walls · 3 Jan 2009 at 13:47

You can use othos, which basically uses the prime95 engine: but is multi-threaded (and therefore don't need several instances open).

The engines that you've mentioned are pretty much the standards for testing cpu/ram stability.

rypt · 3 Jan 2009 at 14:11

OCCT works well too

kazakore · 3 Jan 2009 at 14:15

OK thanks guys. Just want to test my old P4 before upgrading RAM and GFX and donating my old RAM to my housemate if it's good. If I find CPU issues guess I'll have to move my full upgrade forwards...

mmj_uk · 3 Jan 2009 at 14:50

The latest versions of Prime95 are multithreaded, so no need to use Orthos now.

Chong Warrior · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:39

I'm currently using IntelBurnTest.... brings my PC to an absolute crawl and sends temps soaring! Very intense and very quick, I'll never bother with Prime95 again. This thing will find a fault within 10 mins that would take Prime95 all day.

kazakore · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:10

Chong Warrior said:
I'm currently using IntelBurnTest.... brings my PC to an absolute crawl and sends temps soaring! Very intense and very quick, I'll never bother with Prime95 again. This thing will find a fault within 10 mins that would take Prime95 all day.

That one look interesting. I think for what I need Prime95 and memtest86 still do the job. Nothing is overclocked and just want to rule out problems with CPU and RAM before upgrading/giving away my RAM. Think the few issues I've been getting are graphics card related but want to double check.

Chong Warrior · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:40

It's what Intel use on their CPU's for testing and I'm guessing they know their stuff

Kennysevenfold · 3 Jan 2009 at 20:30

Chong Warrior said:
I'm currently using IntelBurnTest.... brings my PC to an absolute crawl and sends temps soaring! Very intense and very quick, I'll never bother with Prime95 again. This thing will find a fault within 10 mins that would take Prime95 all day.

+1

njj1046 · 3 Jan 2009 at 22:28

Never tried this before, only prime95. Was a bit dubious about trying it after reading it could make you cpu temps up to 22 degrees higher than under prime95 :eek:

Seeing as I just upped the overclock on my Q6600 from 3GHz to 3.2GHz and couldn't be arsed to run prime overnight to test it, I gave this a shot.

My temps running this went up to approx 4 degrees higher than under prime95. The most important thing though is that it passed

Pretty good for 3.2GHz I thought considering I've got the voltage @ 1.2625v in the BIOS (the chips VID is 1.2625v)

Chong Warrior · 3 Jan 2009 at 22:32

How many tests did you run it through?

njj1046 · 3 Jan 2009 at 22:40

It recommended 5 or more tests, so I ran 5.

philjohn · 3 Jan 2009 at 22:49

Get a copy of the "Ultimate Boot CD" there's a load of things on there such as realtime ray tracer to really tax your proc. I also prefer Memtest86+ (both that and original Memtest86 are on it).