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Stress testing

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Asazman

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I need a good stress testing program (BESIDES Prime95) for my AMD Athlon XP Barton Mobile 2500+ which is clocked at 13x215 (2.8Ghz) with 2.1vcore on my Prometeia. I was able to play BF fine, but I only played for about 20 minutes.

I have SiSandra, but I was never impressed with the burn-in abilities of it.

Any other programs that will stress specifically the CPU? Thanks peoples!
 
Not to start a debate or anything, but why not Prime? I've tried Folding, 3dMark, and SiSoft's Burn in but nothing raises my temps higher than Prime.

I've heard of some sort of equation you enter into MS Calc that'll stress the cpu, but I don't remember it off the top of my head.

Nice system btw.
 
Dunno what you have against Prime95, but you could always just run Folding@Home.
 
prime95 is the only real stress *testing* program you can run, that I know of. Other programs can stress your cpu, but they won't test it to see if it's stable or not.
 
Ok I guess I am turning this into a debate but I gotta agree with Spewn. Not only does it put a hardcore load on a cpu and make it beg for its mommy it also compares known results and lets you know everything on the die is functioning properly.
 
Run Prime95, while running the Sandra burn-in tests looped, while running 3dMark 2001 and a few other things if you can think of them. Trust me, if that isn't a decent type of stress test, then nothing is. Running multiple programs like that will truly stress your system. I highly recommend Prime95 since it tests against known results. The others are there to beat the shit out of the CPU so Prime can crash your system. 12-24 hours of that with no problems should certify your system as stable.
 
For overall system stressing (including the memory subsystem and everything else), running varried multiple programs is where it's at.

However, if you want to ONLY test the CPU, there is very little benefit in running anything but a Prime95 process or two or three. You can set it up to just beat the daylights of your CPU and leave the rest of the system alone. All the rest of the programs running will only slow calculations down and maybe expose an instability a little sooner.

At least that's my experience. Anyone with a different take on the subject?
 
about running different programs simultaneously; if Prime95 is stressing your CPU and memory at 100%, what else can you ask for? any other program running with it is just going to steal processor time. that would be less effective.
 
Agh, no! don't run folding at home, atleast not in a non-stress testing mode.

It would report wrong results and or crash if there is a major problem.

Just use Prime95.

I don't know why you'd have anything against it. Seems really silly.
 
Originally posted by dobbz
about running different programs simultaneously; if Prime95 is stressing your CPU and memory at 100%, what else can you ask for? any other program running with it is just going to steal processor time. that would be less effective.
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Prime95 won't strees your RAM 100%. Also, running multiple programs at the same time as stress testing with Prime95 will give even more stuff for the CPU to choke on. That way you may turn up instabilities quicker than you would otherwise. Also, it's a way of stress testing your whole system and not just the CPU or RAM. This is much more comprehensive than just one or two programs.
 
Originally posted by angrybusdriver
Agh, no! don't run folding at home, atleast not in a non-stress testing mode.
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I think you mean, don't run folding for stress testing. Run it after the stress testing when you know your machine is stable.
 
Prime 95 by default uses idle thread priority so I wouldn't waste your time running other stress testing software at the same time.
 
why is everyone saying prime95 when he clearly said no prime95? that isn't very helpful

maybe he already has prime95 and wants to verify, or he just doesn't like it, or he has a grudge with the makers, who knows
 
Originally posted by Asazman I need a good stress testing program (BESIDES Prime95) for my AMD Athlon XP Barton Mobile 2500+ which is clocked at 13x215 (2.8Ghz) with 2.1vcore on my Prometeia. I was able to play BF fine, but I only played for about 20 minutes.

I have SiSandra, but I was never impressed with the burn-in abilities of it.

Any other programs that will stress specifically the CPU? Thanks peoples!
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Here ya go. I'll be the only one that listened to your request and provided you with an alternative. Sorry for wording it like that but I get frustrated when you come to furums and ask for help and everyone answers/asks every question but the one you asked. Know what I mean? The program you might want to check is called CPU Burn In and it's located here:


http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/


It's a cpu intense looping and error checking math program that stresses your cpu pretty well. It's MaximumPC magazine and my weapon of choice. Hope it works out for you.
 
Originally posted by md262626
Here ya go. I'll be the only one that listened to your request and provided you with an alternative. Sorry for wording it like that but I get frustrated when you come to furums and ask for help and everyone answers/asks every question but the one you asked. Know what I mean? The program you might want to check is called CPU Burn In and it's located here:


http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/


It's a cpu intense looping and error checking math program that stresses your cpu pretty well. It's MaximumPC magazine and my weapon of choice. Hope it works out for you.
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good goin, and since you bashed ppl who don't answer the question, im gonna post another useless reply.. YEH!!!!!! im soo happpy now!!!! :D
 
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