Any good, easy to get torture test program to test stability?

[acardoso]

I have an Asus133 with a Tbird 900 running at 1 Giga (133 x 7.5). I have set the core voltage jumper to 1.775/1.80 volts. So far it hasn't crashed or froze. I was wondering if there is a better program to test its stability.

Maybe, I could even lower the core voltage, and have the CPU run a little cooler. Yesterday was very hot in Southern California and I didn't turn the A/C to help the energy crisis ... so the temperature of the case got all the way up to 40C and the CPU got to 59C. I have a Globalwin FOP-32 and two system fans (intake and exhaust). I just ordered Arctic Silver II thermal compound. Don't know how much that will help.

Any comments ?

 

[acardoso]

Sorry for torturing you with three messages .... when click post, it seem to be frozen.

 

[arod324]

I would probably suggest RC5, Prime95 or Seti@home

 

[TimeKeeper]

Run 3dmark2001 loop demo, seems like a good idea.

 

[Leo V]

For a truly meaningful stability test (entire system, not just CPU), you should try what I did. Here's a copy/paste:

Everything looked good at first, until I invented a new level of PC torture. All of these were run simultaneously:

* Huge directory copy over 100mbps LAN (2 simultaneous copy processes)
* CPU burn-in program with error checking
* CoolEdit upsampling to a huge WAV file, CPU and disk-intensive process
* Playing a CD-quality or 88KHz/32-bit (to parasite bandwidth) WAV file over the LAN
* Exact Audio Copy top-quality audio CD ripping/testing to harddisk
* Random IE windows/browsing
* Outlook Express open
* Random explorer windows

Basically, all peripherals were brutally utilized, by multiple apps at that! HDD, CDRW, LAN, sound card, memory, video, etc. The lockups didn't fail to show up!

I did eventually solve everything, and newer A7V133 BIOS prevents part of my past problem. Anyhow, a similar test will bring out problems Prime95 would never reveal