You evaluate your rig by checking its performance, stability, and safety under various conditions.
You evaluate your rig by checking its performance, stability, and safety under various conditions.
Sigh. It’s pointless to rely on any stress test suite besides Intel XTU. It even includes a mem test build, plus two different stress methods and benchmarking to verify actual changes. Plus, it’s the top CPU monitoring software available, so there’s no need for alternatives. While stock you can reasonably assume everything is functioning properly if you enter BIOS, I’d still run a few benchmarks to see how your stock performs after overclocking.
Furmark combined with Intel Burn Test and Futuremark Extreme 3D evaluation. If crashes occur, it may no longer be considered reliable.