Aida64 is a stress test too

i mean, for the purpose of making sure it works, yeah prime not needed. if OC'ing, then run prime, aida, cinnabench, unigine valley, and a couple games.

Yep I know, I've just read and seen on videos that Prime95 seems to run the Haswell CPU's too hot, like 90+. Which in any case, you'd wanna chill out at that point anyways. Something between how Prime95 and the Haswell processors coordinate with one another, they start to get into a bunch of technical jargon that's over my head

Since it's used and he doesn't know the condition of the processor (probably perfectly fine, but), and he isn't overclocking then I don't see the need to play around with a hardcore artificial stress tester. BUT I guess if he's paying attention to temps and only runs for a small amount of time it's probably no biggy



Kinda along my line of thinking. Especially since he's not overclocking and just testing comparatively for "real world" usage