There is a safeguard that comes with most PC components today, whereby they shut down automatically if the temperature gets too high.

Stress testing your PC can push its components to perform at their peak, significantly driving up the heat released.

Make sure that you have disabled any screen-saver and sleep mode before starting the test.

It’s because you want your PC to be free from any external load and the entire processing capability focussed during the stress test.

Since the stress testing would be done through a browser, close all other non-essential and background processes.

4 Conclusion Things to Know Before Stress Testingīefore you begin stress testing your CPU, you need to make sure of a couple of things.

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Either way, just use monitoring programs like MSi Afterburner for your temps, just to be sure. If you want to play simpler games that don't require that much out of your CPU, then go ahead and keep the 4.3Ghz OC, but if you want to use newer ones that fully utilize your CPU to the max, tone it down to 4.2 to 4Ghz. So all in all, it depends on what you want to play. For me, i play old games like Skyrim, L4D2, Payday 2, but i also play newer games like Control, DMC 5 and Metro Exodus, these games can take more use out of my wiggly 8 cores. For example, i am running an FX-8300 OC'd to 4Ghz, while i can go over that, my overall system stability would go a bit poof and i would rather play all my games decently, then some better and others crashier. The difference in tests that you have experience is because of the difference in instructions, if games are all you care about, just test with them how hot you CPU gets. It all boils down to optimization and what you are planning to play.

Now i can't exactly speak for every game or can think of which games did what.

From my experience a game, even if it's old, like BF3 was overheating my PSU. As far as i am aware, depending on the games there are those that would be more taxing in different ways on the CPU because of the different types of instructions.

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