Need benchmarking software that doesn't stress CPU 100%

[Joemonkey]

does a benchmark software exist that you can measure "normal everyday use" with? i have plenty of stuff to stress the hell out of the PC, but I'm wanting to look at temperatures (using drive health and MBM) while there is something running that just kinda uses the CPU and RAM randomly for a few days so I can see the hottest the HDDs and CPU got.

Anything out there that allows you to throttle the amount of stressing?

 

[myocardia]

Well, it's definitely a weird request. If you aren't wanting to stress the cpu, why not just run the apps that you're gonna be running, and see what the temp is???

 

[Megatomic]

What he said ^^^. You could just install MBM or use AIDA32 and use the PC. After you've been doing your thing for a while, go an check your temps. I do this periodically.

What I've seen lately is that my system and CPU temps are 5 degrees higher now than they were during summer. My wife and kids are hothouse flowers and they have to have the house toasty during the cold seasons. The ambient temp. in my house rose from 70F to 74F when the furnace got switched on and my computer noticed the change.

My loaded temp. rose from 49C to 53/54C. It's still acceptable but not as impressive as it was before. This is the price I'll have to pay for using the Vantec Stealth fan to cool my CPU.

 

[Joemonkey]

well the normal app that runs on the PC takes up 100% of the CPU all the time, customer doesn't believe that is causing a problem. We wanted to show tests of the CPU NOT running at 100% all the time, but we didn't want the CPU to be idle either.

I suppose I could pound away on it all day, doing silly things like defrag and scandisk, but i was hoping for an app that you could throttle down, like to see what your temps would be at using the CPU 75% of the time maybe.

 

[Megatomic]

I haven't seen anything like that yet. But have you seen the latest version of Prime95? It has the ability to customize the torture test. You can have it use lots of RAM, a little RAM, or to maximize CPU load. Maybe that is a step in the right direction for you?

 

[Joemonkey]

sounds like a plan, i'm familiar w/ prime95 but i didn't know EXACTLY how configureable it was.

 

[Megatomic]

It didn't used to be so configurable, it's just gained that within the last few updates. I updated from 2.34 and it didn't have it then...