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    I need a heat-generating series of tests for my HP DV7T-7000QE

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sgtrobo, Sep 17, 2012.

  1. sgtrobo

    sgtrobo Notebook Geek

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    I purchased a Pavillion dv7t-7k-QE in July, and by the end of August, the hard drive died on it. After reading about the issues with heat, I assume that it was due to heat issues causing the hard drive to crap out, since the boot sector was unreadable and unrecoverable, and I couldn't get windows to install back onto it

    anyway, HP did a very good job of RMA'ing it, replacing the HDD, updating the BIOS, and sending me the replacement. What I'd like to do now is stress the crap out of it to make sure it is good before I bother using it.

    I figure I need to do something that stresses the CPU, the GPU, and the storage units simultaneously to get the sucker hot to see if it dies. Any ideas what would be good for that?

    I know handbrake is great for CPU useage, but obviously useless for GPU. I don't game, so I figure I probably need an endless loop type of benchmark.
     
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    Kryspie Notebook Enthusiast

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    You can probably throw in furmark/kombustor if you want to cook it, but the HDD fail is probably due to the HDD is defective itself more than heat imo.
     
    baii, Sep 18, 2012
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    GPU Stress test - Furmark, MSI Kombustor, OCCT
    CPU Stress test - HyperPI, Prime95, OCCT

    If you want to REALLY burn in a computer, stress test GPU and CPU at the same time (NOT typically recommended....laptop torture pretty much)

    The best way to test your laptop IMO though is to load up whatever program you have that is most intensive. Typically the higher end games (Skyrim, Crysis, Metro 2033, pick your poison) will push your CPU and GPU quite well. Give it a couple hours and monitor temps with HWMonitor and you should have a good idea where your max temps are.
     
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  5. sgtrobo

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    been trying to run Prime95 and FurMark, but FurMark throttles down the GPU

    had gotten weird boot up errors and freezes since I've gotten this laptop back, I'm really wondering if this isn't just a lemon.
     
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    Were you running HWMonitor? Do you know temps? It might be getting too hot, in which case it would do that.

    Also I have heard that Nvidia and AMD design their GPU's to throttle down specifically for these programs since they get the GPU so hot and stress them so far. So this may be intentional.

    Try OCCT, it has a GPU stress test that is not quite as intensive as Furmark, but good enough for the girls I go out with.
     
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    How about if you run them individually?
     
    baii, Sep 18, 2012
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