How long should I Leave HWmonitor to get a acurate reading when stress testing?

[Leadbelly78]

How long should I Leave HDmonitor to Get a accurate Reading when Stress-Testing?
Should I let it run all day, over night or more than that?
Thanks in advanced.

 

[Darkbreeze]

First of all, never hear of HDmonitor. Hwmonitor, but not HDmonitor. Secondly, it's not used for stress testing, it's used for monitoring sensors including temperature and voltage. For stress testing you use Prime95, Intel Burntest or OCCT. Prime95 on small FFT for four to eight hours is fine for most people, 24 hours to be absolutely certain if you know you're going to be severely stressing an overclocked CPU in daily use.

Are you stress testing due to an overclock or what's your reason for it?

 

[Leadbelly78]

First of all, never hear of HDmonitor. Hwmonitor, but not HDmonitor. Secondly, it's not used for stress testing, it's used for monitoring sensors including temperature and voltage. For stress testing you use Prime95, Intel Burntest or OCCT. Prime95 on small FFT for four to eight hours is fine for most people, 24 hours to be absolutely certain if you know you're going to be severely stressing an overclocked CPU in daily use.

Are you stress testing due to an overclock or what's your reason for it?

Sorry, I meant the HwMonitor, not the HDmonitor.
Regarding the overclocking, I'm not overclocking my CPU, I just wanted to see how hot the CPU get's after playing a game
I also meant the GPU, not the CPU.that requires a lot of power because I'm playing with the Ultra graphics on everything..
Thanks for the help.

 

[Darkbreeze]

In that case, I'd download GPU-Z, click on the sensors tab, then run Everest or Furmark for about 15-30 minutes on whichever settings you want to test at. Or run your game at ultra settings for an hour or so. Using the GPU stress tests it doesn't take long to determine stability and establish temps. Obviously the longer you run it the more definite the results but consider that the stress tests push the card far more than your gaming is ever likely to.

 

[Leadbelly78]

In that case, I'd download GPU-Z, click on the sensors tab, then run Everest or Furmark for about 15-30 minutes on whichever settings you want to test at. Or run your game at ultra settings for an hour or so. Using the GPU stress tests it doesn't take long to determine stability and establish temps. Obviously the longer you run it the more definite the results but consider that the stress tests push the card far more than your gaming is ever likely to.

Wow, Well thanks a lot.
So just using the HWMonitor won't give me a accurate reading of my rig?
Well, I'm downloading all of those now.

 

[Darkbreeze]

HWmonitor, in my opinion, is pretty limited but a lot of guys here like it. CPUID spreads their utilities into four or five different packages, I guess to target individual needs, or to make it look like more products, but other products have much more info included in a single utilitiy which for me, seems to be easier. HWinfo is the one I mainly use and it has a main window with a bunch of useful summary stuff in there but mostly I just use the sensors view which has CPU, GPU, RAM, Motherboard, Hard disk and other information available all in one window. Sometimes there are certain sensors that need to be disabled to prevent hanging the system but it will generally let you know if that's the case.

 

[Leadbelly78]

And what about PCMark 7 or PCMark8 and the other programs by http://www.futuremark.com ??
I've heard that those programs are used the most when it comes to checking out the strength of the computers?
Anyway, I'll try everything I can.

 

[Darkbreeze]

They are ok, probably closer to real world use, but when stress testing the general rule is to apply more than you'll ever need to ensure you won't have issues with what you actually need. Any or all of them are probably ok.