How many cycles should I run burntest?

[Barso]

I know intel burntest really stresses the system.
How many cycles should I run my corei7 on maximum with 16 threads to ensure total stability?

[Callidus]

barso run prime95 overnight leave it running 12 hrs

we've been over this a good few times now and I've never seen your system but am pretty confident it's rock solid

[cje]

As Cal said really, but if you're asking about Intel Burn Test, then I do 20 passes initially. Then about 100. Mind temps though, as Intel Burn Test can raise your temps a good few degrees higher than prime95 does.

However, a lot call 20 passes good enough. 100 is just a personal figure of mine.

[Callidus]

CJE , he's under water ( his cooling not Braso per se ) so his temps on a 3.2ghz o/c should be uber noodles

[Barso]

My temps are around 65 c on burntest maximum with 16 threads.

[TheDoors]

I asked a similar question a few days ago. Now, I'm no expert, but my OC was passing ITBT fine, Prime95 was fine. But BSOD'ing with OCCT, and Orthos.

So i'd say, maybe do a mix of them all. And also try your day to day tasks, like gaming, encoding and the like.

Just my two farthings worth

[Callidus]

then you have no more worries now go enjoy :)

I've failed on various "definate" stress tests over the years, rarely suffered from a BSOD in day to day use, I find I stress test less and less these days

I tend to use accrued knowledge, experience and a dash of "the force" I get by on that lol

[ViRuS2k]

To know your pc is stable on a i7 you only need to run 25 passes.
with 8 threads or 16 threads.
doesnt matter what you choose becuse there is only 2 cores 4 threads per core 2 threads per cycle.

8 in total includeing Hyper Threading enabled.

Remember to select maximum memory then if you pass 25 passes consider yourself stable.

If you run threads lower than 8 say 4 it will only use 50% cpu usage, keep it at 8, 16 if you want but there is no need.

[TheDoors]

then you have no more worries now go enjoy :)

I've failed on various "definate" stress tests over the years, rarely suffered from a BSOD in day to day use, I find I stress test less and less these days

I tend to use accrued knowledge, experience and a dash of "the force" I get by on that lol


For sure.

Most guides tell you to make changes to you FSB in small increments. I just slap it to 400 and work my way backwards, lol.

[cje]

CJE , he's under water ( his cooling not Braso per se ) so his temps on a 3.2ghz o/c should be uber noodles

Cool. I always say that when I am not sure of the OP's cooling solution. Sort of as a disclaimer sort of thing you know. I wouldn't like somone to go off testing with IBT and slowly cooking his cpu. As it does raise temps quite high, quite quickly.

@Barso. Yeah, now enjoy that system. I am super jealous of you. ;)