OCCT will destroy your system. Best stress tool for me.
Tests GPU also very nicely. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been trying to force this box to crash by driving it, but so far it > doesn't want to do that. It prefers to crash when I'm doing some real work. > > I don't think prime95 is much of a stressor. I ran it for days while > working in the foreground. It was like it wasn't even there. Only the temps > went up 10 to 15 degrees C. > > Now I'm using LinX, which is claiming to drive the cpu at 100% and max out > the ram. Yet, I can still run a youtube video in the background (I do have > a zillion windows open in firefox). Typing this email is showing that LinX > is there, though, as there is a severe delay with the keystrokes most of > the time. Temps are in the mid 50s on all four cores. The advantages of > early spring time benching. > > What else is there to try? What will drive this thing up into the 90s? > > I do have the deluxe version of that board that Greg, Duncan and Tim all > seemed to like on the way (thanks for that). I got the deluxe version > because I like features and see little need anymore for PCI slots. I find > that with these upscale boards those extra features come in handy down the > road when the system gets repurposed. > -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad
