What is a good proggie for stressing a CPU?

[farmboy]

I've just finished building my first system and I'm looking for a good program that taxes the CPU so that I can be sure that the HSF and peltier is doing an adequate job at keeping things cool before I start playing around with overclocking. What do you guys use?

 

[pen^2]

3dmark (looped)
seti@home
rc5
prime95
quake3 demo (looped)
quake2 demo (looped)

 

[farmboy]

I would have thought that 3dmark and the quake time demos would have been oriented more to stressing your graphics card rather than CPU. Still its a start. Thanks

 

[pen^2]

IMO running q3 at lower (640*480) rez or looping cpu testing in 3dmark2k would get the job done too...

 

[toph99]

Unrealy Tourney
RC5

 

[Braxus]

I say Prime95 is the best... Although the system might be 100% stable with RC5, 3DMark2K, Q3A, etc. I generally find that Prime95 is able to catch some of the instability in a CPU with the stress test whereas the other programs generally do not.

 

[AfterBurn]

CPU Stability test

If this thing passes its 24h stability certificate test, there aint nothing wrong with your cpu.

 

[ErikS]

I agree with Afterburn, that program beats the @#$% out of your CPU. I ran Prime95 for 8hrs with a cel366@550, no hiccups. Stability test said the processor was marginal, thought Stbility test was full of crap. I then tried to load Win2k - a big NO GO. Clocked back to default, all was well with the world. IMHO nothing stresses the CPU like Stability test.