New 9800X3D PC Stress Test Advice

idahosurge

idahosurge
I am new to AMD and my parts are on the way. I am building a 9800X3D system with a Crosshair X870E Hero, GSkill 30-40-40-96 6000MHz ram (2*32GB) and a Asus RTX 5080 (TUF OC version).

I am going to run the 9800X3D at stock BIOS settings and the ram I will manually enter the 30-40-40-96 timings @ 1.4V since I have read using the EXPO settings can cause issues.

What software should I use to stress test this system and how long should I run the software?

I also asked this question in a overclock forum I frequent, but the answer was running Prime95 (small FFT's) for eight to twelve hours and MemTest86 for 8 hours.

I am coming from Intel and I have never ran a stress test for hours. When I built my current 7820X system I ran x264 Stability Test for 10 passes and HCI MemTest. If both passed then everything was stable and I overclocked the 7820X to 4.6GHz, never had a stability issue with the OC settings. X264 took no more than one hour and HCI MT took two or three. This was 7.5 years ago so I do not remember the exact amount of time.

Running Prime95 and MemTest86 for eight hours each seems excessive to me.

Also I am using a air cooler (Thermalright Peerless Assassin 140 Black), so I am a little concerned about CPU temps while running stress tests for hours.
 

DeckerSolo

DeckerSolo
Stress Testing programs

CINEBENCH R23 to stress test the CPU
FURMARK to stress test the GPU
or if you have Steam 3DMARK have more sophisticated tests

But, don't bother stress testing, I've never ran tests for hours, if your games run ok and the components don't overheat or throttle when playing that all you need to know.

HWMonitor PRO is a free download and can be used in background to monitor component temps etc to see if things are running ok.
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MSI Afterburner to tweek you GPU (make sure you get this program from the MSI website to avoid viruses). I've found slightly undervolting the GPU gives best resullts.

I run AMD cpu's and would suggest

Using the EXPO settings presented by the BIOS it will be fine and enable AMD Precision Boost Overdrive also in the BIOS else you are leaving free performance on the table.
Would also suggest you enable Resizable BAR in the BIOS

+ get the latest Motherboard BIOS and Chipset updates from your motherboard website to ensure you have the latest AMD 3D compatability
 
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pvaljann

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I'd definitely check your BIOS etc is updated before doing any long stress testing. My ASUS had two updates right off the bat.
There have been reports of failures on reddit etc, but I'll leave you to conclude if there is an actual motherboard connection or not.

When I stress test, my main aim is to ensure that my thermal paste application is good. I worry a lot less about part quality these days. All I did with mine, after updating the board BIOS, is run the usual prime number tools on all cores for an hour or so to build up a decent temp, whilst recording per core CPU utilization and temperature sensors.
Whilst it it still hot, I jump into some CPU-hungry games (4k) - more diverse than just number crunching. I'm very happy with setup, and I've had no crashes.

I also concluded that this is one part I don't think I'll be overclocking as the boost is more than enough.
 
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