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BenBilly

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Hi I have just finished making my first build and I'm running stress tests to check it is ok. Here's the thing my first stress test I ran my CPU was fine but it heated up quite quickly, I then ran the stress tests a second time and managed to run it for about 30mins at an average temperature of 49C. But when I came to do it properly for 3 hours it heated up quickly to about 60C-70C in like 2 minutes whats the problem?

NOTE: I'm using heavy load, prime95, speccy and speedfan I am running a AMD FX 6300

Thanks,

Ben
 
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JackNaylorPE
Most of the tried and true stress tests are irrelevant in today's era. For the most part they stress the CPU in a series of repetitive and highly stressful ways which bear no resemblance to anything that your PC will ever see ever gain. A CPU might pass these test with flying colors but then when faced with as serious multi-tasking load resulting from running several tasks concurrently, the CPU can falter and the stress test will never pick that up.

The older stress tests also produce heat levels far and away above anything your PC will experience outside of these tests .... so if using to dial in your overclock for example, you can easily wind up stopping well short of what you could most certainly run at. Of course, if ya goal...
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Most of the tried and true stress tests are irrelevant in today's era. For the most part they stress the CPU in a series of repetitive and highly stressful ways which bear no resemblance to anything that your PC will ever see ever gain. A CPU might pass these test with flying colors but then when faced with as serious multi-tasking load resulting from running several tasks concurrently, the CPU can falter and the stress test will never pick that up.

The older stress tests also produce heat levels far and away above anything your PC will experience outside of these tests .... so if using to dial in your overclock for example, you can easily wind up stopping well short of what you could most certainly run at. Of course, if ya goal is to place high on internet rankings for overclocking using these benches, none of the preceding will apply.

I would suggest determining whether your temps are OK by running an actual program suite designed for this purpose. RoG Real Bench does this nicely.



http://rog.asus.com/241042013/overclocking/rog-realbench-free-app-download-now/
 
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