How To Stress Test Your CPU With AIDA64

What’s up everybody. Nic here with tech illiterate and today I want to do another quick video and show you how to stress test your CPU. So what we're going to be using today it called aida64. So go ahead and get yourself to aida64.com. You want to click on that download link at the top and scroll down. Youhave these two options here aida64 extreme. These are both Trial versions so just pick whichever you want one's self installing exe and the other one is a zip package. Go ahead and download that and install it's pretty straightforward but once you have that installed go ahead and open aida64 and it's going to give you this main window and this is basically just diagnostic information. Soo in another video I looked at HW info I prefer to use HW info but this is also really great for information about your system so you can go ahead and just look at these different drop downs and it'll give you all the information you want to know about your PC. It’s super extensive, if you like it go ahead and use it. By the way this is a paid program but like I said before this is a trial version so I think it gives you something like 30 days to use it before you need to pay for it. But we're most interested in here is this little button. That's your system stability test. This is a stress test to see how our computer performs. So you can go ahead and maximize that and you can see right up here on the top left these different check boxes. They are the stress, what what's going to be stressed in this stability test. So up here in the left we have you check boxes and that's going to let you choose what you want to be stressed. So you have the CPU, FPU, cache, memory, local disk and GPU. So what I want to do today is just stress these ones here. The CPU, FPU, cache and system memory. So if we're looking down here this is going to give us an overlay graph and what's going on in our computer and the reason why before like I said I want to use HW info over this one mainly is because of this. So this is using that Tctl/Tdie reading for my CPU which isn't quite what ryzen Master is getting me so that's why I use a HW info for that and also gives me a nice different graphic to look at, to separate them. Anyways so you have that there, you have these different tabs here and show your fans for that whatever reason this is just showing one of my CPU fans and one of my chassis fans. Voltages, power, clocks. This is unified just has a series of different things there for you and stats of a grid-like Excel sheet type of form. All right so let's go back to temperatures you can see my CPU usage right now is that 2% now I'm just using OBS right now to record this and that's basically all its really doing other than background processes so you can see my CPU temp right here that’s the blue one let’s uncheck these ones here get those out of the way we don't need those just the CPU temp that's great and all I have to do is hit start and now that's going to stress my CPU and as you can see it straight shoot straight up to 100% And you'll see my CPU temp start to go up I am using an AIO in the system water cooled loop and my fan speed you can't hear it I can hear it is been ramped up so if I click on that cooling fans you can see how my fan speed going up the RPM there. So this is really great cuz it’s going to give you the option to do a repeatable test it’s gonna be reliable and you know that across the test is going to be the same so say you wanted to test your new whatever. CPU Cooler or you have different CPU thermal paste that you want to test between this is a great way to get that repeatable test that's going to give you consistent results so that you can actually see what's better what's not you know and how things are working in this is also really great to see if your CPU is going to be bottlenecked or cap out or have a throttling issues with temperature so as you can see mines at 74 right there right about now and if I leave this on for about say 5 minutes that's probably going to be around the time where things start to flatten out on that curve now let's restart this I'm going to show you what it's going to look like when I use hardware monitor so I can clear that you can also save it of course but just to reset it and I'm I'm going to open up hardware monitor okay so I have HW info open here and I have my CPU, my liquid temperature and my GPU temperature there and you can see that we're sitting around 38-40 and my average is at 41 right now it's pretty warm in here that's higher than usual that's for sure but if we go back to aida64 and open up that stability test now I can reset this clear that and I also want to reset this in HW info and I'm going to go ahead and hit start. Now I'm going to leave this for 5 minutes and just to give you an idea of what it's going to look like once I’ve done a stress test. Alright so that's it I did it for 5 minutes I just did a screenshot there so you could see what it looks like. So I'm going to stop that test it’s been running for 5 minutes and 42 seconds now okay hit the stop button okay so that's looking pretty good we have about 75 it was that they're so if I look back at this here you can see that I was hitting around that 40 mark, it spikes up a few times here and there and then immediately once I started that test you can see the temperature go up and as I scroll across I'll give you those different time stamps and pulling periods in which the temperatures were taken so you so you can see that it's spikes up occasionally but as soon as I stopped it went right back down and I think I had an average of about 73 degrees celsius thoughout that test about that. So not bad at all so this is a really heavy test this is like 100% balls-to-the-wall test. So this is not what you're going to be hitting when you're doing workload stuff. If you were playing a game it’s definitely not going to hit these temperatures so like I said this is a great repeatable test so if for example right now I have Arctic Silver 5 CPU paste on there so say I wanted to try to noctua paste or Arctic mx-4 I could just go ahead take that paste off, put the new paste on and test it again in the same fashion and that’ll give me the results in comparison to this one now if it were me I would probably do several tests maybe longer tests up 10 minutes but as you can see the one thing I'm worried about is that temperature of my CPU liquid temperature in my cooler going to high so I can see down here at 31 and it went up to 36 and at that point it was kind of hanging up there for a while before I start the test so at that point I know my liquid temperature is not going to go up too much more but if I were to restart the test what I want what I want to do is to let it go back down around that 31.6 area so that I can get a good consistent result in my test but anyways that's aida64 it's really useful and I think if you're interested in knowing more about your PC and to see what it can do give a shot download and install it it's great the trial period, like I said, is about 30 days and for me and my testing needs it's been excellent but anyways my name is Nic, that’s my phone, you know what to do like subscribe and all that stuff thanks for watching.

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Id: 25HUMKSHO6s

Length: 7min 42sec (462 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 09 2020