Which stress tools these days?

Whoop · 11 Aug 2006 at 23:06

Hey all,

What stress tools are everyone using these days?

The guides are slowly becoming dated with all the tools being around 2005 dates, can someone point me to the best tools for today?

I am currently running at this and have been for the past 3 hours in battlefield 2 with no crashes or problems.

The Ram by the way is standard PC3200 stuff, is it really doing 230Mhz? :confused:

Thanks in advance,

Whoop

fornowagain · 11 Aug 2006 at 23:11

S&M
Prime95
Sp2004 (orthos version for dual core is good)
SuperPi
OCCT

Jokester · 11 Aug 2006 at 23:23

I've found that Memtest86 is no longer upto the job for RAM, Prime Blend does a better job of testing RAM stability in my experience.

For A64s I found that S&M was a better CPU stability test than Prime, so far with the Conroes it's the other way round. That might just be me though.

Jokester

Edit: Yeah it looks like your RAM is doing 230MHz.

Whoop · 12 Aug 2006 at 09:24

Jokester said:
I've found that Memtest86 is no longer upto the job for RAM, Prime Blend does a better job of testing RAM stability in my experience.

For A64s I found that S&M was a better CPU stability test than Prime, so far with the Conroes it's the other way round. That might just be me though.

Jokester

Edit: Yeah it looks like your RAM is doing 230MHz.

Sounds good to me, and thanks to all for the replies.

I haven't found a divider yet for my mobo (its a Shuttle SN95G5) so might be reaching my limit. I can't see the memory wanting to go much beyond 230Mhz even if it appears stable at the moment.

I'll run the tests suggested but does anyone know if the divider is in their somewhere hidden away?

Whoop