Which program(s)to use to stress-test systems?

[IgoByte]

I'd like to run some stress tests on a few systems. What should I useand where can it be found?

 

[gregor7777]

CPU Burn and SiSoft Sandra are the ones I use, and while they're running I eat crackers over my keyboard to top it all off.

j/k, but those two are the progie's I use to stress my system for a night.

 

[bozo1]

I use Sandra to test the drives, Prime95 for CPU/RAM.

 

[Rand]

Prime95 for CPU/RAM stability testing.
CPUBurn for sheer temperature stability testing.

 

[compuser]

BurnIn Test is a pretty stressful test for the system.

runs (user config.able) 8-10 tests at once. 8-10 spawned windows everything from reading and writing to every single disk /logical partition on disk, optical drives, drawing 2d, drawing 3d, alu and fpu ops, mmx/sse/multimedia ops etc. for cpu, network test, com port tests, memory tests of reads, writes and verificaiton of simple to complex bit patterns. it might not therefore stress the disk or other parts to it's fullest capacity b/c of so many parallel operations but it's a great system tester, atleast was for me!

all in all, while synthetic benchmark, it's specifically ment to test the stability of your system. looks like it's shareware and runs max of 15 strainht minutes, but believe me, you will find a lot of problems well before that if you do have them.

of course, as mentioned before: prime95's torture test, seti, sandra's few cpu/mem/drives benchmarks are good as well.

 

[dionx]

run the games you play. who cares about ideal stress, try real world stress.

my computer was able to handle Prime95 when i overclocked my FSB really high, but UT couldnt run stable even at default speed. you can thank the stupid video card drivers for that. anyways, ideal stress does not mean you necessarily have a stable computer.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< run the games you play. who cares about ideal stress, try real world stress.

my computer was able to handle Prime95 when i overclocked my FSB really high, but UT couldnt run stable even at default speed. you can thank the stupid video card drivers for that. anyways, ideal stress does not mean you necessarily have a stable computer. >>


i agree, i dont really burn in...although i use prime95 to stress it when checking temps and stuff.

 

[Draco]

Loop 3DMark2001.
Play MOH or RTCW for extended periods of time.
Prime 95.