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| Thread ID: 62472 | 2005-10-08 21:06:00 | Stress testing a pc | lazydog (148) | Press F1 |
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| 394627 | 2005-10-09 02:56:00 | It kind of depends of what you are trying to find out... If you just want to check that temperatures are okay then there are lots of little apps that will get your CPU usage to 100% and it won't take too long to see how high the temperatures get. If you want to check your memory then use memtest86+ (going overnight) For hard drives then the manfacturer will have appropriate diagnostic tools. Now, the best test of drivers and a whole system can be games like quake3. If you have buggy drivers they will show up in a matter of minutes (when you get lockups). Ghosting an image onto a machine and/or OS installations also tend to show up dodgy hardware. Typically I just check for bad memory (memtest86+) and run an error check on the filesystem, unless there are other symptoms of problems. Inspect the event log too. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 394628 | 2005-10-09 04:07:00 | I've just downloaded a program of the PC World website called "CPU Stability Test.exe". Found here.... www.pcworld.com Will run it this arvo. If anyones tried this test and has some advice like its ok or dont use it, then i'm all ears. I realise techs dont have the time to run stress tests on every pc that comes thru the door and would only do a test (if there is one) if theres something in particular thats causing problems. As you could probably tell, i'm bored. :-) Will the test ever stop? :confused: It keeps on testing 5-minute, 8-minute, 1-minute etc. :illogical Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 394629 | 2005-10-09 06:32:00 | that was fun: Passmark rating: 218.19 CPU Mark 231.68 2D Graphics Mark 138.19 Memory Mark 240.23 Disk Mark 357.91 CD Mark 149.99 3D Graphics Mark 66.43 Beat that! (shoulding be hard) |
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