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Program like Prime 95 that boots from CD?

Philippine Mango

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Ya know how you've got a memtest 86 that will boot up with a CDROM and no OS is needed right? To test the stability of your memory, right? Well, what about for testing out the CPU? Under load? To see if it exhibits errors so that you don't risk corruption of your HDD. Anyone know of any?
 

xcript

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StressLinux
Overclockix

These are linux live-CDs which include utilities such as memtest, cpuburn, cpu burn-in, mprime/prime95 (not sure if StressLinux has this), etc.

Edit: UBCD also includes some stress testing apps and lots of other useful stuff.
 

Philippine Mango

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Decided to use ultimate boot disc, man I totally forgot about that one.. Works great though! :) Can you run superpi for linux? Like Could I add it into the ultimate boot disc and run it?