That one setting was allegedly responsible for exploding Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek's UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) during a stream, and millions of gamers questioning the sanity of Amazon Games’ development team. The developers had left one of the settings as “unlimited” during the menu screens, which meant there was no cap on the amount of power it could draw. For instance, New World recently had a major problem that meant it was bricking and overheating GPUs, as well as pulling huge amounts of power from PCs. You will then have an original performance benchmark for your CPU, GPU and RAM including power usage and temperatures, which means you can see how your components are degrading over time and often understand where problems are arising in future.īenchmarking is not just a way of flexing your gaming capabilities - it is in fact a great way to troubleshoot games or failing components in your system. Whenever you build a new gaming PC or buy a pre-built PC it’s a good idea to benchmark your virgin machine before you start installing too many applications and games. This guide will show you how to set up benchmarking software and show your stats in an OSD (On-Screen Display) using MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner. GPU temperature in stress tests stays below 70C, hot spot below 80C.ĬPU temperatures in stress tests stay below 78C (Prime95) or 74C (OCCT).Benchmarking games allows you to check the performance of your components and, of course, flex your gaming PC specs with your friends or the Reddit and YouTube community. Cinebench showed a 22% higher score on Multi Core and 25% higher score on Single core. Together this gives me quite a bit of power boost. I also overclocked my i5 6600K from 3.5 GHz to 4.4 GHz at 1.39V which is stable even with toughest OCCT or Prime 95 stresstests, and XMP profile activated on my RAM (16GB DDR4 2133 Mhz to 3200 MHz). It gives me around 10% gain in average FPS, so quite a nice result I think. I don't know if this is a lot, but I am glad with it. So I downgraded core clock a little bit and the highest combination I can get at stock voltage is +135 MHz Core clock and +275 MHz Memory clock. Then I started overclocking memory clock, but it wasn't even stable at +100, or at +150 with +50mv. I kept voltage at stock and memory clock at 0 and could get core clock to a stable +140. I've tested some more and I do think they were proper crashes because of unstable overclocks.

Afterburner benchmark