Prime95 was recommended for me to use for an OC tester and can't get it to work.

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  1. DeViLzzz

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    I can't get Prime95 to work at all. I am using Windows 7 64 bit. What is the deal with this thing now? I am trying to do an OC and it was recommended to use. Can anyone help? Also if not using Prime95 what are the best alternatives? I am trying to OC an i5 2500k btw.
     
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    CalculuS Ancient Guru

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    You're better off not using prime95, it's extremely harsh and will push your cpu further than gaming/workloads can.

    I like using Aida64 to check the stability of my oc and 3dmark to see the actual performance gains.
     
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    which is good, because gaming workloads aren't going to catch that one case where defective memory flips a bit and corrupts the storage driver, causing the writing of 0's to your NVME or SSD.
     
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    I don't use an NVME or SSD so no worry there.
     
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    Thanks for those recommendations. I definitely will be using those also. As for prime95 being harsh oh I know what has been said about it but I am old and so used to using what was used long ago and if it is still available well hard to shake old habits. I have heard of Aida64 and as for 3dmark I hate to pay for the full version but I guess free versions of that and similar are fine. I know there are games of course with built in benchmarks but not sure if as of now I have too many of those. Anyway like I already said I will definitely be doing what you mentioned also.

    PS: Nice to see some activity in this community and hoping it can be a place I can park in well into the future as I needed a place to get my fix of pc talk.
     
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    Hi there

    Asus Realbench or OCCT are probably better and free alternatives,although 3DMark I would too recommend to get it,but Unigine Heaven or even Superposition its good stress test for GPUs,if you do rendering then Blender and Octanebench I can only recommend,Blender some render tests are very good for stress testing

    Hope this helps and good luck

    Thanks,Jura
     
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    I only trust Prime95, and OCCT when ever need to test stability. so if you manage these two, you have most probably stable oc
     
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    I've seem some reporting issues regarding Prime the latest Windows and AMD BIOS/Chipset drivers issues as far as Prime95 being detected as a power virus; can anyone confirm?

    EDIT: Been using AIDA to avoid this because of its frequent updates
     
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