CPU Stress Test

Running a cpu stress test on your computer can be a revealing thing when you use your computer for certain things. When your running your computer cpu at 100% it could do a variety of things that may not be beneficial for efficiency. You will discover the quality and performance of your computer processor and will be able to see how far you can push it before it goes over the edge.

This information is very important to a certain group of computer users called overclockers. Their sole mission is to make their computer parts work at top efficiency and power by any means necessary. If you do some research you will find all kinds of setups available that will help your computer parts do this, but they are very dangerous for the computer parts and can void your warranty indefinitely.

The best software program to do your CPU stress test or so called burn-in test is Prime95. If you know anything about overclocking cpu you know about this very popular program. It was originally made to search for Mersenne prime numbers. This can be done by whats called "folding" where you let your computer run a program that churns out algorithims 100% of the time and uses up 100% of your computer cpu. I used to do it years ago for the overclockers forum. Below is a website that will give you a link to the free Prime95 CPU benchmarks program and instructions on how to install it.

You can use different tests within the program that test Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Small FFT and in place FFT will test your FPU and cache while a blended test will test everything including the computer ram memory. You can do custom settings that will make it even more strenuous on the the computer system, but it is best to CPU stress test your system for 24 hours. If you get no errors then your computer system is running good and you should have no computer hardware problems with it.

Conclusion

When you are looking for CPU benchmarks and need something to really make your computer processor literally catch on fire this is it. If your computer cpu is not cooled properly or has some other installation problem it will show up in this test. Download a copy now and make sure your computer cooling problems aren't just a lack of computer parts for cooling.