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For those of you who are PC stressing junkies, who want to see how well the hardware can remain cool, or who want to see how well hardware can operate until the most extreme usage conditions, or at the very minimum burn in thermal paste, this is a great program to use. It's also great for finding out if your power supply is causing games and such to artifact or if the power supply is insufficient/cheap.
http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php
I do caution you though, when running the power supply test do not leave the PC unattended and run it for an extended duration to get the best results. It will raise temperatures of much of your hardware and internal case very quickly, and it will attempt to overheat your PC or overload your power supply, whichever comes first (if it does). At the end of the result it will show you how your PC holds out by showing CPU load and temperatures. Also should the PSU testing not be available, it will tell you. This will happen due to out of date hardware or software, or simply due to crap hardware. In this case I can suggest other pieces of software for stress testing. I run this on my gaming PC whenever I overclock it or make changes to it that may affect the hardware. Lastly, it will test every GPU on your PC, and will use every core, even hyperthreaded ones on your PC as well as use a lot of RAM.
And yes, this is better than Prime95 + ATITool
For any of you who decide to run this, perform the PSU test and post up your image results once it completes. I'm interested to see how it holds out.
EDIT: I also suggest to not run this on a laptop unless you give it plenty of cool air and a lot of clearance around all sides of the case including the bottom. If it's a gaming laptop, I would suggest watching the temps as things will get steamy very, very fast and your power brick will get hot.
EDIT2: The CPU and GPU standalone tests will shut down if the CPU or GPU start to get too hot. The Power Supply test does not have this as the program warns you, so keep an eye on it if you run this test.
http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php
I do caution you though, when running the power supply test do not leave the PC unattended and run it for an extended duration to get the best results. It will raise temperatures of much of your hardware and internal case very quickly, and it will attempt to overheat your PC or overload your power supply, whichever comes first (if it does). At the end of the result it will show you how your PC holds out by showing CPU load and temperatures. Also should the PSU testing not be available, it will tell you. This will happen due to out of date hardware or software, or simply due to crap hardware. In this case I can suggest other pieces of software for stress testing. I run this on my gaming PC whenever I overclock it or make changes to it that may affect the hardware. Lastly, it will test every GPU on your PC, and will use every core, even hyperthreaded ones on your PC as well as use a lot of RAM.
And yes, this is better than Prime95 + ATITool
For any of you who decide to run this, perform the PSU test and post up your image results once it completes. I'm interested to see how it holds out.EDIT: I also suggest to not run this on a laptop unless you give it plenty of cool air and a lot of clearance around all sides of the case including the bottom. If it's a gaming laptop, I would suggest watching the temps as things will get steamy very, very fast and your power brick will get hot.
EDIT2: The CPU and GPU standalone tests will shut down if the CPU or GPU start to get too hot. The Power Supply test does not have this as the program warns you, so keep an eye on it if you run this test.
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