Can anyone recommend a free and relatively easy to use program that very good at stress testing the CPU (and RAM) to its limit for stabilty testing? Preferably something that doesn't produce synthetic results. Need something useful to make sure my overclocks are stable.
Most people use Prime95. It works by testing very large numbers to see if they are prime or not, so I guess it doesn't fulfill your "not synthetic" criteria, but it seems to be the favourite.
OCCT's a monster, if your system is 2 hours OCCT stable, it'll do The easiest way is to start with a quick pi run, a 1M then a 32M for me, then 8 hours SP2004, then I usually move on. Once I start getting to the end of an OC, I run OCCT.
Agree on OCCT, I also do a first spi 1m, until I get an error, then back down, run s+m and the 30 min OCCT, and push on again, then a final test with sp2004
Another vote for OCCT, it does what everything else does, but faster. Running 3DMark in a loop for a few hours is also a pretty good indication.
