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    Stress utility

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Rustican, Jul 29, 2010.

  1. Rustican

    Rustican Notebook Consultant

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    Can anyone recommend a tool or utility to stress out a a computer? CPU, GPU Memory etc?

    Thanks.
     
    Rustican, Jul 29, 2010
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    stresslinux. bing search is your friend.
     
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    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    occt is a good tool I use to test clients machines to make sure they don't blow up after redoing paste and stuff
     
    Texanman, Jul 29, 2010
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    I'm running a stress test test on my E14 with SiSoftware Sandra Lite right now. Will post back if it fails.
     
    ProMed, Jul 31, 2010
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    Sandra Lite failed for me. The stress program would never complete.
     
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    Prime95 for CPU and Furmark Hot as Hell edition for GPU.
     
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    To properly diag, test, and stress a machine it's probably best to NOT use a windows-based utility/program.

    msft places so many layers of abstraction/virtualization between the hardware and the user program layers you can't be sure that the results you are getting (including the failures) are at the real hardware level or are influenced by the os and driver layers.
     
    newsposter, Aug 2, 2010
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