Chapter 4: Stability Testing
Congratulations! You have obtained 4.8Ghz, a figure which was rare on the previous generation Intel CPUs, except for the few who were lucky enough to receive the best of the best. Now it’ s time make sure that it’ s stable. We’ re going to use the software below to monitor our system, stability test, and adjust our overclocks.
Prime95 Version 27.9 Build 1
This is used to stress test our CPU in order to ensure that it’ s stable in the most taxing of conditions. This particular version of Prime95 uses AVX instructions which push our CPU to the absolute max.
CPU-Z
Used to monitor our CPU frequencies and Vcore settings.
CoreTemp
Used to monitor idle, load, and loading temperatures.
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