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    HELP PLZ... any stress test programs for testing laptop hardware?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by iPostNak3d, Jun 30, 2008.

  1. iPostNak3d

    iPostNak3d Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am buying a laptop for a friend and shipping it overseas but before I do that I would like to know if there are ANY STRESS TEST PROGRAMS ou there that I can use to run extensevily on the laptop to test ALL of the hardware parts?

    So if this way soemthing has to fail it would hopefully fail right away?

    I have researched this but since I have never used this nor heard of it I am not sure if I am searching this issue properly.

    Thank you all again.
     
    iPostNak3d, Jun 30, 2008
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    for cpu, you can use orthos or prime95. i believe one of them also stresses the ram.
     
    ejl, Jun 30, 2008
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    thank you EJL again. for the ram i researched and found memetest86. i will check the other two you mentioned.

    does anyone know what are the softwares used by the computer tech shops when they build pcs? what are their favorite softwares for testing?
     
    iPostNak3d, Jun 30, 2008
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    you could use atitool to check the video card and orthos for CPU and RAM.
     
    Harper2.0, Jun 30, 2008
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    does anyone know what are the softwares used by the computer tech shops when they build pcs? what are their favorite softwares for testing?

    and how long do you guys usually run stress softwares? 24 hours? or longer?
     
    iPostNak3d, Jun 30, 2008
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    Get The Ultimate Boot CD. Free download, plenty of test and burn-in software.
     
    olyteddy, Jul 1, 2008
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    Any hardware may fail at any time. That couldn't determined by any test. It's all about the luck.
     
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    I run the wPrime 1.55 stress test, memtest86+, and 3DMark05 on every computer I build. Not ideal tests - wPrime and 3DMark05 are completing set operations rather than by running for a set time - but wPrime runs for about 20 minutes on most dual-core CPUs and that's really long enough to see if you have any major off-the-bat problems. Finding a GPU stress test is harder, but I use several consecutive runs of 3DMark05 os the CS:S stress test; usually turns up the problem if there is one.
     
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    thank you all.

    i understand that hardware can go bad anytime and it is all about being lucky these days... but i still think that running these stress tests might help a bit.

    i heard some people running strees tests for 24 or so... what are they using? does anyone? or is it pretty much any of the above sofwares that you guys mentioned?
     
    iPostNak3d, Jul 1, 2008
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