How can I put a load on my PC to test it under load?

[Muse]

Is there a utility to do this? What would be a good way to test to see what my CPU/case-fans temperatures are under load?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1901991&enterthread=y

 

[Muse]

BTW, I'm going to be running a Gigabyte K8N Pro mobo with an AMD Venice 2.2 GHz 3200+ CPU.

 

[Zepper]

You could run a hard drive exerciser simultaneously with SPrime and perhaps a memory and/or video RAM stress test as well. SPrime largely stresses just the CPU and not much stress on memory.

.bh.

 

[imported_Scoop]

Orthos Blend and Atitool simultaneously makes the PSU work as well.

 

[Bluefront]

I use CPUBurn and ATItool at the same time.....gets everything about as hot as I can stand. On my current project, the current draw is 105w at an idle. With those two programs running, the current draw increases to 290w. Stressful enough on the two most critical parts...

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Bluefront
I use CPUBurn and ATItool at the same time.....gets everything about as hot as I can stand. On my current project, the current draw is 105w at an idle. With those two programs running, the current draw increases to 290w. Stressful enough on the two most critical parts...

I know you don't want to take responsibility, and that's fine, but could you speak to the question of what risk there is in doing this? I just DLed these utilities. Also, do you know if these write to the registry? TIA.

 

[Rubycon]

ShaderMark (test with hairy ball) + Linpack produce crazy draws with a quad.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Or you could crunch. Folding@Home puts a wonderful load on the PSU.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Or you could crunch. Folding@Home puts a wonderful load on the PSU.

But no load on GPU - with multiple GPU's the load can be horrendous! Imagine folding on a dual quad with dual 3870X2's (that GPU is not supported yet but we're just "what if'ing"). :Q

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Or you could crunch. Folding@Home puts a wonderful load on the PSU.

But no load on GPU - with multiple GPU's the load can be horrendous! Imagine folding on a dual quad with dual 3870X2's (that GPU is not supported yet but we're just "what if'ing"). :Q

True, but if he is using an ATI card, it can crunch F@H too, and that will put a hell of a load on it.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Or you could crunch. Folding@Home puts a wonderful load on the PSU.

But no load on GPU - with multiple GPU's the load can be horrendous! Imagine folding on a dual quad with dual 3870X2's (that GPU is not supported yet but we're just "what if'ing"). :Q

True, but if he is using an ATI card, it can crunch F@H too, and that will put a hell of a load on it.

Actually, I'm using a BFG geforce 6600 GT OC AGP card. ATITool supports both ATI cards and nvidia cards, and I installed it and ran it. But I don't know what to do with it. It looks damn complicated to me. I ran some stuff with it just fooling around and the GPU temp showed up as somewhere between 64 and 70C.

I ran CPUBurn 1.4, and it looks far less complicated, but I didn't understand it either. It looked to have 6-7 tests, and I ran them in succession and my CPU temp went between 34 and 38C, not bad, I suppose. I used to have CPU temps often around 43 just doing ordinary stuff on my PC, but that was before I installed my two 120mm case fans (last week, virtually silent Scythe S-Flex "D's"). I'm thrilled at the temperatures I'm getting now. Both case and CPU are staying under 30C for the most part.