Cpu stress tool

Skip To Main Content. Safari Chrome Edge Firefox. Support Navigation Support. Support Home Processors. Close Window. Check for the brand identification. Verify the processor operating frequency. You can download Prime95 here. AIDA64 is another highly popular piece of software, and it is one of the best CPU stress testing and diagnostic programs out there.

It provides useful system data and is a great way to test CPU performance thoroughly. However, the main drawback is that the full program is not free, like most other stress testing tools, but after all, AIDA64 offers much more than a simple stress test.

Obviously, this is a program geared more towards professionals and tech enthusiasts rather than the average gamer and PC user. If you actually want to buy the program or just test out the free version, you can find all the relevant download links on the official website. As its name might suggest, powerMAX is a very good burn-in test. It places the CPU under extreme stress to maximize heat generation to see if the processor works well at high temperatures and whether the cooling solution is working as intended.

The following tools can be used in unison with the benchmarks listed below in order to give you more information while you benchmark your computer. Core Temp is a nice lightweight CPU monitoring tool that will provide you with real-time temperature readings and load percentages on your processor. If you have an Intel processor, Core Temp will also provide readings for the temperature and load on each individual core on your CPU. Core Temp also provides you with some basic info on your processor and tells you the voltage and frequency your CPU is running at as well.

And, there are a few different handy plugins available for Core Temp that expand its capabilities, including an add-on that allows you to sync your RGB lights to the temperature of your processor or to its load, and a remote server plugin for remote access ,.

GPU-Z is also free to use. MSI Afterburner is another graphics card hardware monitoring tool. Along with being able to provide you with much of the same information that GPU-Z offers you, MSI Afterburner will also let you overclock your GPU, set custom fan profiles, run in-game benchmarks, and even record gameplay video or take in-game screenshots.

HWiNFO64 is one of the more advanced hardware monitoring tools out there as it allows you to monitor multiple core components in your system. However, while Prime95 was originally intended to find Mersenne prime numbers, the torture test that is included in the program which helps ensure correct operation when searching for Mersenne prime numbers has been adopted by many hardware enthusiasts to help them stress test their processor and memory —especially after overclocking their CPU and memory.

Aida64 is another CPU stress test tool that a lot of users prefer over Prime Like Prime95, IntelBurn Test also gets some flack for pushing the processor further than necessary.

And, many feel that IntelBurn Test puts even more unnecessary stress on your processor than Prime95 does. Get IntelBurn Test Here.

For GPU stress testing, the benchmarks listed below will give you a variety of options that will push your GPU to the max. FurMark is another common GPU stress test option that is worth noting. While all of the stress test tools mentioned above can work for you, the reality is that your best bet for stress testing your system is to use multiple stress tests tools.

Among the different components that are stress tested, one of the most forgotten components is the system RAM. Most system RAM that fails will tend to fail early on causing blue screens and inexplicable system restarts. If any issues arise, large red letters will indicate that you should probably return your memory or if overclocking, you may want to back off those overclocks just a bit.

Download MemTest These days, these issues are largely gone, but many critics of using Furmark to stress test GPUs claim that because no game will produce such a complicated image for such a long time, other methods of stress testing the GPU is far better and less dangerous.

That said, here at Gear Primer we believe that every graphics card should have sufficient cooling to ensure the system runs well under any graphical load no matter how unrealistic it may be. As such, we continue to utilize Furmark when evaluating graphics cards in our reviews.

Download Furmark. Unigine Heaven is best known as a benchmark rather than a stress test. Due to the complexity of the benchmark, it also functions as an excellent stress test as well by placing a very realistic load on the GPU. Further, its ability to be looped indefinitely as well allow users to run the benchmarks for several hours to ensure complete stability. Download Unigine Heaven. While the free version of 3D Mark allows users to run one benchmark at a time, those with the full paid version can also loop the benchmark indefinitely to ensure full system stability when playing games.

Download 3D Mark. This utility will allow users to select which component to stress test, for how long, and it simply does its thing. As Intel XTU is designed for overclocking the CPU, one nice thing about the utility is that it will give information about the CPU such as utilization, frequency, temperatures, and whether thermal throttling was detected during the stress testing.

Download Intel Xtreme Tuning Utility. Another interesting test is the Allocate Memory test, which will test how well your system performs with a memory limitation.

Download HeavyLoad. Although the workloads used in PC Mark 8 more simulate real world scenarios rather than synthetic testing designed to push your system to its maximum limits, PC Mark 8 tests every subsystem in your PC which allows users to quickly identify if there are potentially any issues that may need to be resolved.