Question

When you buy a brand new computer, it's a good idea to run some software to "burn it in", to make sure that everything is running properly.

People who overclock also do this, to make sure their overclocking wasn't too aggressive. Memtest86 is one example; it performs a very thorough diagnostic of your computer's RAM to make sure you don't have any bad sticks.

What other software do you run?

Answer 1

• 3D Mark for CPU and GPU
• Distributed.net's client for CPU cores
• Any modern game

Answer 2

Mersenne Prime Test or StressCPU

Answer 3

HeavyLoad

From webpage:
Heavyload is intended to stress all resources of a PC (the CPU, RAM, hard disk, network, operating system, etc.) in order to test reliability under a heavy load. This is useful for testing important MS Windows file or database servers before using them for production, or just to check if your new PC might get too hot when used intensively. To stress your PC or server, HeavyLoad writes a large test-file to the temp folder, it allocates physical and virtual memory, performs complex calculations and it draws patterns in its window.

Answer 4

Crysis ... Just kidding.

No single suite can test everything to the max unless it includes code specific to your hardware.

Answer 5

Intel TAT. It is much more stressful than Orthos, Prime95 or any other CPU burn-in test. IT got my cores to hit about 8 degrees C higher than any other test.