Re: What PC hardware diagnostic stress-testing freeware can you recommend?

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 10:07:22 +0100, wasbit wrote:

> I've posted a list on alt.comp.freeware.

Hi wasbit,

Thanks for that purposefully helpful post about stress-test freeware.

I had thought you appended it to the thread on alt.comp.freeware but you 
didn't, so I had to look for it, and so that others don't, here it is:
o *Benchmark/Stress Test Freeware*, by wasbit
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/ZIA12GCPuSg>

Update: <https://i.postimg.cc/SxNC7CTy/heavyload01.jpg>

Independently, I came up with a lot of those stress-testing free tools, but 
your list is better than what I came up with in that it's more focused.

One by one, I'm likely gonna test many of these stress testing tools, 
as I have a PC that works fine for days on end, and then suddenly BSODs.

I don't (yet) know why.

Moving forward, I picked "HeavyLoad" freeware out of that list to test:
o It has been running all four cores of my CPU at 100% for a while
  <https://i.postimg.cc/SxNC7CTy/heavyload01.jpg>

Here's setup information from my syslogs...
<https://www.jam-software.com/heavyload>
<https://downloads.jam-software.de/heavyload/HeavyLoad-x64-Setup.exe>
  Name: HeavyLoad-x64-Setup.exe
  Size: 15534704 bytes (14 MiB)
  SHA256: D4CE244DDB5EF7DFCE3E650A2ADB3B63964992DE8088DF6716E26B7D440001C8

It wants to go in C:\Program Files\JAM Software\HeavyLoad
I put it where it belongs, in C:\app\hardware\cpu\heavyload
The target is C:\app\hardware\cpu\heavyload\HeavyLoad.exe

In the image, you see I paired it with OCCT to see how the voltages, fan 
speeds, power supply, and temperatures fared during the heavy load test.
o <https://i.postimg.cc/SxNC7CTy/heavyload01.jpg>
-- 
I will have a lot of stress testing software to test out coming up.