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    CPU/GPU/RAM/HD/MB Diagnostic and stress test?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by zipidy928, May 21, 2012.

  1. zipidy928

    zipidy928 Notebook Geek

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    Hi,

    I am really excited to receive my Alienware M17X R4 and this will be my first Alienware.

    I was wondering, do any of you do a complete stress/diagnostic test to your PC upon receipt to make sure all components are functioning properly?

    I am looking for a bootable application (e.g. UBCD) that does this task and I couldn't find any. Can anybody suggest?
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    I would run benchmarks. Things like 3DMark11, 3DMark Vantage for GPUs/CPU. Intel Burn test to test CPU. wPrime for CPU as well. Monitor temps while testing as well. I check everything seperately. If you want to run a full system test, PCMark Vantage works well as well. It tests everything pretty much.
     
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    zipidy928 Notebook Geek

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    Thanks so much for your help. What is the difference of running each test separately as supposed to doing an all-in-one PCMark Vantage?
     
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