What program you guys use to bench ?

[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

[XSAlliN]

Super PI v1.5 and Prime95 - 24.14 or good for this porpuse

[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.

[L'enFer]

rendering in 3ds max .

[NO1B4ME]

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...

[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

[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.

[kiwi]

New occt 1.0 (multi core support) + a few 3dmark06 loops is enough for me and takes less than an hour

[[cTx]Philosophy]

Orthos to be 100% sure, rosetta/WCG/Boinc related or any other distributed computing project..

[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

[MrSeanKon]

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

Me too SoFoklis!

For quick tests mostly 32m and OCCT

Especially 8M Super Pi just for first MSFs....
For main stability tester OCCT and S&M FPU test.

[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..

[ochw]

i use 3dmark 06

[mcaff]

3DMark01;03;05;06,prime95 and super pi,

[RubberDuck]

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.

[-n7-]

Orthos.

[niko_time]

OCCT to test its stability, super pi for benchies

[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...

[MrSeanKon]

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.

[Metroid]

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

I like to use Operational Systems as well to bench.

[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!

[LostInRehab]

noob question but what does OCCT and S&M FPU atand for and where can I get them?

[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).