What program you guys use to bench ?

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09-29-2006, 10:12 AM
MacKaquE

What program you guys use to bench ?

Hi everybody

I looked a lot on this forum and founded program to stress the CPU but what about testing the PC for normal today use ?

I'm going to OC my system and everytime I make an OC working I want to test how better it is on my system

I know sotfware like PCmark ... 3dMark .. are they good to have a good idea if my OC did something good or there is better software to test your PC ?

If you guys can gimme what are the best software to use to test the whole PC (I mean I want to see if my OC will be faster in general).

Thx to all :)
10-01-2006, 11:23 AM
XSAlliN

Super PI v1.5 and Prime95 - 24.14 or good for this porpuse ;)
10-01-2006, 04:46 PM
Zardokk

SuperPI (dual 32MB test) and Prime95 (12 hours or more) will tell you how stable you system is. For testing performance, use 3DMark05/3DMark06.
10-04-2006, 04:49 AM
L'enFer

rendering in 3ds max :D.
10-05-2006, 11:02 PM
NO1B4ME

Quote:

Originally Posted by MacKaquE

Hi everybody

I looked a lot on this forum and founded program to stress the CPU but what about testing the PC for normal today use ?

I'm going to OC my system and everytime I make an OC working I want to test how better it is on my system

I know sotfware like PCmark ... 3dMark .. are they good to have a good idea if my OC did something good or there is better software to test your PC ?

If you guys can gimme what are the best software to use to test the whole PC (I mean I want to see if my OC will be faster in general).

Thx to all :)

Thier are a ton of them. Take your pick. PCMARK, Super PI, 3D Mark, Everset,etc...
10-17-2006, 11:06 PM
SLi_dog

Orthos/Stress Prime 2004 seems to be the most popular for dual core CPUs. It has a variety of tests for the different computer components in your system. If you run the "small FFT" test at priority 9 it is supposed to be the best CPU test just make sure you use a program such as Core Temp to keep an eye on your CPU temps.
I prefer to test using a minimum of 6 hours of Orthos for CPU tests.

Some people believe that Orthos is maybe overkill and prefer to do looped benchmark runs of 3DMark05/06. Maybe an hour or more.

Good luck bro :)
10-17-2006, 11:10 PM
LagunaX

Dual orthos is the way to go. I've passed superpi, prime95, 3dmark05/06, dual orthos small fft's, just to fail a little after 2min on dual orthos blend. If you can pass several hours on dual orthos blend, you are pretty much good.:cool:
10-20-2006, 08:41 AM
kiwi

New occt 1.0 (multi core support) + a few 3dmark06 loops is enough for me and takes less than an hour :D
10-20-2006, 10:45 AM
[cTx]Philosophy

Orthos to be 100% sure, rosetta/WCG/Boinc related or any other distributed computing project..
10-21-2006, 12:52 AM
SoF

no prime for me as I have the feeling cold bug processors will crash prime long before any other app gives errors.
Since R@H is not my/our choice anymore, I mostly test with D2Ol...if all cands overnight are ok and counting - I keep thoose settings.
For quick tests mostly 32m and OCCT, mainly if I change RAM or RAM timings
10-23-2006, 12:39 AM
MrSeanKon

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoF

no prime for me will crash prime long before any other app gives errors.

Me too SoFoklis! :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoF

For quick tests mostly 32m and OCCT

Especially 8M Super Pi just for first MSFs....:D
For main stability tester OCCT and S&M FPU test.
10-25-2006, 06:10 AM
Lewis_UK

OCCt is grat for the CPU, then back down the CPU clock then use a 3D mark for the GFX, then Prime95 for memory ...etc..
10-25-2006, 11:22 AM
ochw

i use 3dmark 06
10-26-2006, 07:56 AM
mcaff

3DMark01;03;05;06,prime95 and super pi,
10-29-2006, 03:51 PM
RubberDuck

Quote:

Originally Posted by SLi_dog

Orthos/Stress Prime 2004 seems to be the most popular for dual core CPUs. It has a variety of tests for the different computer components in your system. If you run the "small FFT" test at priority 9 it is supposed to be the best CPU test just make sure you use a program such as Core Temp to keep an eye on your CPU temps.
I prefer to test using a minimum of 6 hours of Orthos for CPU tests.

Some people believe that Orthos is maybe overkill and prefer to do looped benchmark runs of 3DMark05/06. Maybe an hour or more.

Good luck bro :)

IMOP that is the best CPU stress test around.
10-30-2006, 09:51 PM
-n7-

Orthos.
10-31-2006, 11:01 AM
niko_time

OCCT to test its stability, super pi for benchies
11-05-2006, 07:39 PM
shogo_ca

i do :

orthos Large FTT on priority 9 for 12hours
memtest from HCI desing for 12 hours
3D mark Loop for 8 hour

Its really long but i mostly build 3d Workstation and we need stability. Any suggestion about the way i work would be nice...
11-08-2006, 04:15 AM
MrSeanKon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lewis_UK

then Prime95 for memory ...etc..

Prime 95 blends FFT are for RAM testing and CPU.
And SuperPi 32M is good for RAM; it stresses CPU also.
11-08-2006, 10:14 PM
Metroid

I use anything that shows me numbers. after I compare hardwares :D

I like to use Operational Systems as well to bench. :D
11-19-2006, 10:59 PM
LagunaX

I thought that dual orthos small fft AND blend stability (hours) showed my conroe 3.6ghz overclock as stable on air. WRONG! The biggest stress that caused a reboot at 3.6ghz was running NEROVISION transcoding an XVID (mpeg-4) file into a watchable mpeg-2 DVD. This is with 2gb ram 1:1 too! :cool:
11-23-2006, 05:52 PM
LostInRehab

noob question but what does OCCT and S&M FPU atand for and where can I get them?
12-20-2006, 01:45 PM
imterry

The problem with Orthos is that you can't test more than 2 cores at a time unless someone's figured out how to set the affinity of separate instances. Since I'm OC'ing a Kentsfield, I use 4xSuperPi 32M for quick checks and 4xPrime95 (Torture Test/Custom/256MB memory) for 8+ hours to verify stability. After those tests, I run 3DMark06 in a loop for about an hour or so.

If I change anything in memory, I run memtest (all tests 5x).