prime 95 stressing

[Tripp]

I am currently on a prime stress test, one hour an ten minutes in. My question in how long should I run the test for, to determine a stable overclock for a gaming rig

 

[MrKambo]

i usually run 8 hours on Small FFT's, this will ensure the cpu is stable, then i run Blend test for 24 hours to ensure cpu and ram are stable being abused, once all these complete then you're good to go!

but some people say 4 hours or 6 hours some even do it for few days, depends if you wanna see how rock solid an overclock is!

 

[Tripp]

Right ok thanks kambo. I think I will run the small fft for 6 hours, then run the blend test 24 hours seem a really long time for that haha.does it matter if I leave it running overnight, As in if it fails it wont break something while I am asleep will it?

Thanks again bud

 

[MrKambo]

nah it wont break anything, unless you blue screen it'll reset, and just be sitting at the desktop

you dont have to run it for 24 hours, but i like to make sure, sometimes i render videos nothing worse than a failed overclock rendered videos

 

[Tripp]

Ah ok thats good to know. I dont render videos I just game on my rig, do you think maybe 8 or 12 hours would be sufficient for the blend test?

 

[MrKambo]

yeah 8 hours should be alright

 

[Tripp]

Ahh great stuff. games wont max my cpu like prime, but I am probably best doing a couple of hours run through on haven too as my gpu aint under water, an until I get my r9 290x its dissapating all the heat into the case

 

[SPS]

You need to keep an eye on temps for the first hour or so though

 

[Tripp]

You need to keep an eye on temps for the first hour or so though

I am guessing you mean on the blend test

 

[SPS]

I am guessing you mean on the blend test

It was just a general comment for any Prime95 test, for reference.

 

[Tripp]

It was just a general comment for any Prime95 test, for reference.

Ah ok yeah I always watch for the firat hour anyway, then keep looking in every now and again after that.

 

[iBeInspire]

LOL I must be the laziest person alive... I do a 30 min small fft test to check temps, then do blend for 2/3 hours and call it stable

This is with all the video/audio production I do on my rig, alongside gaming... never failed me once

Maybe I've just been immensely lucky

 

[Tripp]

Whay sort of temps did you get with your overclock fella?

 

[NeverBackDown]

I just OCCT Linpack. Works for me and simple to use. Just set it and go then wait for it to complete

 

[MacLeod]

With AMD chips, youre gonna want to use both Linpack (either Intel Burn Test or OCCT's linpack) and then either OCCT for 4-6 hours or Prime95 for 10-12 hours. Some chips that will sail thru Intel Burn Test will crash under OCCT. Youll want to make sure you can pass both types of stress testing to ensure youve got a stable overclock. Mine for example would pass 20 runs of Intel Burn Test at 4.8 GHz but wont do OCCT at anything other than 4.5.

 

[Tripp]

Well I got a failed core overnight with the prime 95 blend test

 

[MrKambo]

overclock needs tweaking

 

[Tripp]

indeed it does though i don't really have the time to do it today