I will occasionally use any number of these tools, but I always have MSI Kombustor installed.(Taipei, Taiwan) - The recent stream of killer DX11 game releases has gamers fired up and ready to go. It uses one thread to calculate a certain number of digits of Pi, and the result is given as the amount of time required to do so. SuperPi is a single-threaded calculation tool to determine the efficiency and speed of your CPU's clock cycles. 3DMark Vantage is very similar to Unigene Heaven or Sanctuary, but uses a different rendering engine. Because of this additional voltage, and the extreme CPU loads involved, this is the end-all for CPU burn-in and stress testing. For some reason, this has been remedied for Haswell. This is not recommended for Ivy Bridge series processors as it pushes the voltages higher during testing and may cause permanent damage to the chip. AIDA 64 is primarily CPU testing and is used to test for the stability of overclocks on your CPU. This is designed to max out your GPU to test stability and cooling efficiency. Unigene powered benchmarks are very difficult for your GPU to render because of the high precision required, high levels of tessellation, real-time effects such as a live skybox, bloom, lighting effects, etc. It is very good as a burn-in tool for your GPU and to test it for stable overclocks. Of all of these, I find that Kombustor is the easiest to interpret, and all the least conclusive. 5 different benchmarking programs? Well you have AIDA 64, Unigene Heaven or Sanctuary, 3DMark Vantage, SuperPi and MSI Kombustor.

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