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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational
reliability / stability while running XP, so I'm wondering if there is any free software that can do stress testing or "burn-in" operations for one or two weeks continuously running under XP. Basically, any software that can keep a system busy doing stuff until (or if) the system crashes or locks up. Serial, parallel, network, audio and USB stress testing is not required. Anyone know of any such software? |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
On 9/18/2010 10:31 PM, PC Guy wrote:
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational reliability / stability while running XP, so I'm wondering if there is any free software that can do stress testing or "burn-in" operations for one or two weeks continuously running under XP. Basically, any software that can keep a system busy doing stuff until (or if) the system crashes or locks up. Serial, parallel, network, audio and USB stress testing is not required. Anyone know of any such software? Any software which runs the CPU(s) at 100% and uses a lot of memory bandwidth will do what you describe and there are many ways to do it. One of the simplest, and thus the most popular, programs that fills the bill is Prime95. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95 |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational
reliability / stability while running XP, so I'm wondering if there is any free software that can do stress testing or "burn-in" operations for one or two weeks continuously running under XP. Basically, any software that can keep a system busy doing stuff until (or if) the system crashes or locks up. Serial, parallel, network, audio and USB stress testing is not required. RAM: memtest86 GPU (graphics): 3dMark 2006 or even PCMark Vantage CPU: I forgot... Everest? SuperPi? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.35.4 ^ ^ 22:43:01 up 23 days 50 min 1 user load average: 1.08 1.14 1.15 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
John McGaw wrote:
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational reliability / stability while running XP, Any software which runs the CPU(s) at 100% and uses a lot of memory bandwidth will do what you describe and there are many ways to do it. I'm looking for software that will basically do something to simulate the workload that an average human being might perform on a PC. I'm not really looking to max out the CPU just to test the heatsink of the CPU or something like that. I can turn on these PC's and just let them sit there with no app running for a solid week, but I'd like the PC to be doing something more than that during that period. Prime 95 won't (as far as I know) do any hard drive reading / writing, or do anything graphics related. If I'm not mistaken, it's actually booted from a floppy and doesn't even run as a Windows GUI program. |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
Man-wai Chang wrote:
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational reliability / stability while running XP, so I'm wondering if there is any free software that can do stress testing or "burn-in" operations for one or two weeks continuously running under XP. RAM: memtest86 GPU (graphics): 3dMark 2006 or even PCMark Vantage CPU: I forgot... Everest? SuperPi? I want something that I can start and then walk away for several days, maybe even a week or two, and will keep running until I stop it or the PC locks up or crashes. And I want one app, not 2 or 3 that I don't even know can run concurrently under XP. What about Sandra? Anyone know anything about that? |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
I want something that I can start and then walk away for several days,
maybe even a week or two, and will keep running until I stop it or the PC locks up or crashes. And I want one app, not 2 or 3 that I don't even know can run concurrently under XP. What about Sandra? Anyone know anything about that? Try it then. But I would choose 3dMark even when your graphic card is not a good one. Just select & run the tests your configuration can handle. -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.35.4 ^ ^ 00:03:01 up 23 days 2:10 1 user load average: 1.06 1.08 1.08 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
On 9/19/2010 8:49 AM PT, PC Guy typed:
Prime 95 won't (as far as I know) do any hard drive reading / writing, or do anything graphics related. If I'm not mistaken, it's actually booted from a floppy and doesn't even run as a Windows GUI program. Uh, Prime 95 runs in Windows. Are you sure you're not thinking of another program like memtest86? -- "I have to sit up with a sick ant." --unknown /\___/\ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
On 9/19/2010 11:49 AM, PC Guy wrote:
John McGaw wrote: I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational reliability / stability while running XP, Any software which runs the CPU(s) at 100% and uses a lot of memory bandwidth will do what you describe and there are many ways to do it. I'm looking for software that will basically do something to simulate the workload that an average human being might perform on a PC. I'm not really looking to max out the CPU just to test the heatsink of the CPU or something like that. I can turn on these PC's and just let them sit there with no app running for a solid week, but I'd like the PC to be doing something more than that during that period. Prime 95 won't (as far as I know) do any hard drive reading / writing, or do anything graphics related. If I'm not mistaken, it's actually booted from a floppy and doesn't even run as a Windows GUI program. OK, if that doesn't fit your needs then you could install the BOINC client and pick some project to participate in. Set the client to use whatever portion of the CPU capacity, memory, disk etc that you think will emulate a "normal" use of the computer and let the client run for a couple of weeks. Pick a project which features a graphics screen saver which illustrates its progress and the graphics subsystem will be exercised also. If you want to stress the disk operations you can add on a batch file which copies files back and forth, zips them, unzips them, compares them, calculates MD5 codes or whatever your heart desires. Add sleep intervals as appropriate or let the drive(s) grind at full speed as seems appropriate. |
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Looking for system stress / burn-in software
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:31:26 -0400, PC Guy wrote:
I've got a few motherboards that I need to determine their operational reliability / stability while running XP, so I'm wondering if there is any free software that can do stress testing or "burn-in" operations for one or two weeks continuously running under XP. Basically, any software that can keep a system busy doing stuff until (or if) the system crashes or locks up. Serial, parallel, network, audio and USB stress testing is not required. Anyone know of any such software? Intel Burn Test. |
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