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Questions tagged [stress-test]

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Why do different 100% cpu loads cause different temperatures on the cpu?

I have been running tests between using CPUz and OCCT. I noticed that if I set CPUz to stress the CPU with multiple threads it will never go above 70c. On the other hand running OCCT to load on the CPU it will shoot up past 75c instantly and then…
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What tools to test the reliability and stability of a newly built PC?

Just curious what everyone uses to stress test their machines.
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Any easy way to load test GPU?

OS is Debian. Looking for a quick command line tool to drive GPU load to max to test temps / cooling. I already looked at nvbench, which does compile and run, but seems more like getting useful benchmark numbers vs maxing out the GPU. (util only hit…
cat pants
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Testing health of laptop hardware

I recently bought a second-hand laptop and I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it. Everything appears on the surface to be working fine, but before I switch over to using this laptop as my main computer I wanted to run some tests to see how well…
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i9-7940x Strange TDP increase while stress testing

I was running the CPU torture test "In-place large FFTs" from prime95 on my brand new i9-7940x while monitoring the CPU temperature and TDP with Intel Extreme tuning utility. During the test I noticed that at a certain point the TDP raise abruptly…
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free software to test my laptop components

Possible Duplicate: What programs can I use to test my computer's hardware? i need some tools to check when/if my laptop can resists on hight computing requirements. Now i'm workin on a different machine, but, some time ago, when i was using that…
dole doug
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How to make Intel Turbo Boost to reach its maximum for testing cooling efficiency?

I noticed that Intel stock cooler occasionally gets really loud (oh, Intel, why did you make your stock coolers worse; SandyBridge ones were larger and quieter), so I will replace it with a third party silent cooler (no overclocking - I have non-K…
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Why might identical hard disks perform at different speeds?

I have just bought two WD 3TB Reds (WD30EFRX) for a FreeNAS box and whilst doing burn-in testing it seems like one is consistently taking about 10% longer than the other. So far I've done: a dd read test of the whole device, a long SMART test and…
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Overheat and turn off during CPU stress test

I test my system health by applying a cpu stress test using the stress program in a script shell. Here's the script and it's output : xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ cat bin/test_stress.sh echo "=============== Starting stress test…
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How likely is it that I've encountered a MemTest+ bug?

I'm using my CPU, memory and board with the default, spec-defined voltages and frequencies. Yet if I run Memtest 5.01 (which installs alongside my Linux Mint 18) in SMP mode, my machine hangs at some point in the beginning of test #5. I can complete…
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How can I put the maximum stress on the CPU without using vectorized instructions?

I am testing the characteristics of the CPU frequency fluctuation between the turbo max and the base frequency. Therefore, I want a load that can force the CPU to reduce its frequency from turbo to base when the whole machine load reaches 100%. I am…
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Linux CPU stress-ng outputs

I'm doing a CPU test using the stress-ng tool. But I want to understand what their output means. Can you explain, please? I added 2 screenshots. For example: AWS DO Thanks for your help.
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Will the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool for Windows 7 check all available RAM or only the first 4GB?

According to this article: https://www.lifewire.com/windows-memory-diagnostic-review-2626154 The Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool for Windows 7 only scans the first 4GB of RAM for errors. This Super User question regarding Windows 10 (which is NOT a…
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How can I give temperature monitoring absolute priority over stress testing?

I am trying to stress test my home-built NAS for cooling problems. Since neither stress, nor FIRESTARTER nor mprime95 look after the temperatures, I want to write a small script that kills all of them (ie the one of them I am currently running) if…
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USB test methodology and automation tools

I am charged with the task to design the architecture to stress (burn-in) test computer's USB ports. Requirements are not defined yet, and I have double complicated task - to define what to test and under which conditions, and which tools to use to…
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