Hi all
Exciting news - i bit the bullet and new PC ordered. I have gone for a 6700K, Asrock OC Z170 board, 16GB 2666MHz memory, and 1070 GTX card
My aim is to overclock to 4.6Ghz and use XMP. I have a H115i AIO water cooler coming too.
The question to you good folks is: What OC/test tools do you recommend to get me up and running?
I will need temp measurement, stress testing and perhaps memory testing software. Its been a while since I last did an OC so am out of the loop. My research on whats best has been inconclusive. I'm not looking to prove to the world that I'm stable with some insane test, I'm just after something that will test my OC robustly enough to not leave me fearing a BSOD during a Prepar3D flight with the FSL A320 between some hardcore airport addons!
I previously used Prime95 and CPUID but have read that P95 is not too realistic for testing Skylakes.
I was considering AIDA64 - anyone have any experience? If so, will the trial version be enough?
MemTest84 - is this worth it for testing RAM? I assume I could use it to test my setup at stock, then once I have OCd the CPU, I will go back to set XMP on the RAM, then I re-run MemTest (as well as AIDA)?
Grateful for any advice to get the best out of my new system!
Thanks
Rich