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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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JMeter Table Result Created 3 Timestamps

I am new to JMeter and Automation Test, and I have a problem in reading JMeter results in CSV. I tried running a test plan with the following Thread Group Properties: My JMeter Thread Group Number of Threads: 1, Ramp-Up Period: 1, Loop Count: 1, So…
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Router performance tests

628/5000 Hello all, I am looking for tools or ways to test router performance. I am not only concerned about WiFi bandwidth, coverage and etc, but also about the performance of the hardware itself in terms of its ability to handle the number of…
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Can it damage a CPU to only stress out a single core?

Damage is meant as a broad term here. Could any negative effects occur if I run a 100% workload on a single core in a multicore CPU? The thought has two sources. is the temperature difference between the cores. It may be the case that the heat…
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Does burning-in a GPU by stressing it with coil-whine producing load reduce coil-whine?

It seems the entire R9 Fiji line, to which my GPU belongs, has this horrible coil-whine problem. My RMA is worse than my original purchase. In regards to user-action that can be taken to reduce coil-whine, Amdmatt, from AMD Communities, states:…
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