mocha989

Which stresses better and takes less time to call the CPU stable?

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PlUgOuT

I would say IBT. I never used OCCT but it's still linpack i guess. They are the same. Prime tests the longevity of the cpu's stability. Use IBT for quick stability tests and run Prime95 small fft over night about 8-10 hours to call it stable.

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freakb18c1

IBT OR linx make sure you set the memory to all 20 - 25 passes should be good.

mocha989

really???

ill probalby do 20 to 25 passes. then test overnight or 4 hours of OCCT since i dont like prime 95

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freakb18c1

I personally find prime blend the hardest to pass beyond 8 hours good luck.

GoHigh

I have never encountered where it would pass IBT for 2 hours but not pass Prime95 for 12 hours.

For that reason alone, I would say the IBT (OCCT's LINPACK IS THE SAME). I use OCCT's LINPACK to pass for stability. I have run it for 4 hours on my main rig, but I think anything over 2 hours is a bit overkill.

Clockadile Dundee

I use both LinX, a gui for linpack/IBT, and prime 95 on all settings, but instead of blend 8k-4096k.

For far longer than you would probably think is reasonable, so I am not even going to say how much you should do it, or why, or try to convince you otherwise. I will just say that very few people do stability testing of sufficient diversity, or to a great enough extent, that an Intel engineer would call it stable.

freakb18c1

heh i did 20 passes of linx on max ram and failed prime blend in about 4 hours needed more vcore believe or not.

Villainstone

Use all three

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milkcow500

OCCT for a few hours.

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