Prime95 is what I use, also there's Intel Burn Test. They stress all cores of the CPU to max, so you can get an idea of how stable your OC is, as well as what your max temps will be.
Prime95 is what I use, also there's Intel Burn Test. They stress all cores of the CPU to max, so you can get an idea of how stable your OC is, as well as what your max temps will be.
hi hikacloud, thanks for the quick reply
so that mean I could actually use the above two applications to test the stock stress before "OCing" as well then ?
Go into BIOS setup, check your available multipliers (these multiply the FSB frequency), divide 3600 by the multiplier and there you go, the necessary FSB frequency to achieve 3.6Ghz (or 3600Mhz).
Go into BIOS setup, check your available multipliers (these multiply the FSB frequency), divide 3600 by the multiplier and there you go, the necessary FSB frequency to achieve 3.6Ghz (or 3600Mhz).
I believe the highest multiplier on the E8400 is 9x. That would mean that you need to set the FSB at 400MHz in order to achieve the proposed 3.6GHz. Do not leave the RAM on auto, once you set the FSB select something that's a bit lower than the rated RAM speed until you are done testing the CPU stability. But you will find all that in the aforementioned tutorials. There's a lot of helpful stuff on these forums to get you started.
Well, some of the standard stuff to use: Prime95 for some stress testing (let this run for at least 8-16 hours). Intel Burn Test for crazy intense, faster stressing. MemTest to make sure your memory is stable once you finally overclock it. Core Temp will come in handy to monitor and log temps while stress testing. SpeedFan for temp and fan fine-tuning.